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How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs

Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel is rethinking IDEs.

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Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who created it.

Vercel is a native Next.js platform.

v0 aims to democratize software development for non-technical users. Check it out here.

Listen to our recent conversation with Vercel’s VP of AI.

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn or X.

Kudos to Stack Overflow user Sodruldeen Mustapha, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to remove the environment variables from Laravel Debug?.

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