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How Pinterest Switched Their Template Rendering Engine to React

Talk from React Amsterdam Conference 2017 https://react.amsterdam

Jessica Chan, Software Engineer at Pinterest

A deep dive into how Pinterest migrated their web infrastructure to serve React pages, which required moving a huge amount of code without breaking the site. Details on the legacy stack (Django web server and Nunjucks/Jinja template rendering) moving to Node and migrating our templates to React.