Blog · Oct 31st, 2019
Building React Select
Jed talks about how he accidentally built the most popular React component, experienced death by a hundred props, got buried under hundreds of PRs, invented a component extension API, learned that styles are also a function of state, influenced some major design systems and finally got some sleep.
Co-founder of Thinkmill and OSS developer. Creator of Keystatic, Keystone, react-select, and classnames.
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