S04E03 - UI Components - Challenges and Best Practices Across Web and Native

Summary

Benoit Marchant, create of the Montage Framework, and Andy Matuschak, UIKit engineer, researcher and head of mobile engineering at Khan Academy, join us to discuss UI components. We reminisce Benoit and Andy’s extensive history of web and native engineering at Apple. We debate various challenges and best practices of component reusability, encapsulation, gestures, data binding, and collaboration between engineers and designers.

Panelists

Benoit Marchant @benoitmarchant

Andy Matuschak @andy_matuschak https://andymatuschak.org/

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links 

WebObjects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebObjects 

Montage Framework

http://montagestudio.com/montagejs/

UIKit gesture recognizers

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/EventHandling/Conceptual/EventHandlingiPhoneOS/GestureRecognizer_basics/GestureRecognizer_basics.html

Gestures in React Native

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/handling-touches.html

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/gesture-responder-system.html

WebComponents

http://webcomponents.org/

Elm

http://elm-lang.org/

Khan Academy Long-Term Research

http://klr.tumblr.com/