I had the opportunity to present my "Intro to React and Redux" talk at theDayton Web Developers meetup this evening. We had an excellent turnout, and a lot of good questions and interest. Thanks to DWD for the chance to share about React and Redux!

It's been a year since I last presented on this topic, so I updated the slides considerably. I updated several sections to match behavior in React 16, added info on React requirements and deployment, and expanded the section on using React and Redux together. I also included some additional resource links, and improved the sequence of information.

As always, I used the very niftySpectacle web presentation tool to put together these slides. Not only is Spectacle a React-based toolkit, the "live component playgrounds" feature let me show component examples that rendered into the page, and updated live as I edited them.

The slides are available here:

Modern Web Development with React and Redux 🔗︎

The talk was recorded, and I'll include a link to the video once it's published.

This is a post in thePresentations series.Other posts in this series:

• Jun 13, 2025 -Presentations: The State of React and the Community in 2025
• Nov 21, 2024 -Presentations: Maintaining a Library and a Community
• Nov 21, 2024 -React Advanced 2024: Designing Effective Documentation
• Jul 09, 2024 -React Summit 2024: Why Use Redux Today?
• Nov 13, 2023 -React Summit US 2023: What's New in Redux Toolkit 2.0
• Oct 24, 2023 -React Advanced 2023 - Building Better React DevTools with Replay Time Travel
• Aug 16, 2023 -React Rally 2023 - A (Brief) Guide to React Rendering Behavior
• Jun 01, 2023 -Presentations: Debugging JavaScript
• Dec 11, 2022 -Presentations: 2022 Podcasts
• Jun 27, 2022 -Presentations: Modern Redux with Redux Toolkit
• May 04, 2022 -Reactathon 2022: The Evolution of Redux Async Logic
• May 04, 2022 -TS Congress 2022: Lesson from Maintaining TS Libraries
• May 29, 2021 -Presentations: Learn Modern Redux Livestream
• May 29, 2021 -Presentations: The State of Redux, May 2021
• May 29, 2021 -Presentations: Podcast Appearances in 2021
• May 25, 2021 -Presentations: Using Git Effectively
• Dec 20, 2020 -Presentations: Intro to React, Redux, and TypeScript (2020)
• Dec 03, 2020 -Presentations: Podcast Appearances in 2020
• Oct 08, 2020 -Global React Meetup: The State of Redux 2020
• Oct 19, 2019 -Git Under the Hood: Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History
• Sep 24, 2019 -React Boston 2019: Hooks, HOCs, and Tradeoffs
• Jun 11, 2019 -ReactNext 2019: A Deep Dive into React-Redux
• May 22, 2019 -Presentation: JavaScript for Java Devs
• Mar 31, 2019 -Reactathon 2019 Keynote: The State of Redux
• Oct 01, 2018 -React Boston 2018 Presentation: The State of Redux
• Jun 30, 2018 -Redux Fundamentals Workshop Slides
• Mar 20, 2018 -Reactathon Presentation: Redux Fundamentals
• Mar 07, 2018 -Presentation: Intro to React and Redux (March 2018)
• Sep 24, 2017 -React Boston 2017 Presentation: You Might Need Redux (And Its Ecosystem)
• Feb 24, 2017 -Presentation Sources Published
• Feb 17, 2017 -Presentation: Intro to React and Redux
• Oct 07, 2016 -Presentation: Modern Web Dev Overview