Redis and ReactJS for fast websites

We discuss the cost/benefit of Redis and React on Node for our use-case of digital media websites.

Redis (http://redis.io/) contains the entire database in memory. This limits the database size, but enables ultimate performance, i.e. fast websites.

React (https://facebook.github.io/react/) is an isomorphic library which can render HTML on the server, i.e. for fast "pre-rendered" web pages.

We present a Node Express example app, to store blog articles in a Redis database, and render them using React.

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About the speaker:

Evan Summers has historically worked as a Java/enterprise developer. In 2014 he joined the IOL digital media team. This team built http://IOLmobile.co.za using Angular, Java and Node. More recently, they built http://MojoJazz.iol.co.za using ReactJS, Node and Redis.

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Venue kindly sponsored by IO check them out at http://www.io.co.za