Conf 2015 - Codecademy’s approach to component communication

Bonnie Eisenman, Codecademy Codecademy recently rebuilt our entire learning environment using React. The learning environment needs to dynamically accommodate various combinations of components (the code editor, browser preview, terminal, and lesson content, for example), leading to changing communication needs. We solved this using meta-programming to create dynamic communication “adapters,“ allowing us to mix-and-match functionality on the fly. I’ll discuss our motivations for doing so, and how this appr