Building React-Select
summary
A account of building react select that gives concrete takeaways: it reaches 30% of react-dom downloads so scale matters, the core is refactored into four controlled state buckets (options, value, input inputValue, menuOpen) and wrapped by higher‑order controllers, an invented a component extension API exposes filtering, async loading and custom rendering while an styles are also a function of state overrides pattern enables theming and even a working date‑picker demo; it uses React 0.12, classNames, Less, gulp, browserify and automated tooling for CI and releases.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:49Open source joy phase 1
- 8:28Open source anxiety phase 2
- 10:58Framework inside component
- 15:14Simplifying with props
- 18:04UI overrides and styles
- 21:43Date picker with react-select
- 22:29React architecture takeaways
- 25:23Open source takeaways
- 27:30Issue and PR communication
- 30:02Future of react-select
