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Swizec Teller is our guest on the newest episode of the Learnetto podcast. 

Swizec is a talented and accomplished software engineer, originally from Slovenia, now based in San Francisco. 

Now he helps startups, having previously collaborated with MasterCard, Google, and Mashable, among others. A self-proclaimed writing addict, Swizec has published several books including Data Visualization with d3.js and Why programmers work at night, with tips on work-life balance, productivity, and programming flow. 

His latest book is called React+D3.js in which he teaches how to use React.js with D3.js for building modern interactive data visualizations.

In this interview, we discussed his beginnings as a tech whizzkid, writing about code, coding live, supporting indie tech writers, and using videos as the next hot thing in teaching programming. There was also an unexpected guest on the show!

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Hrishi Mittal (HM): Hi Swizec, how are you doing?

IMPORTANT UPDATE (6 July 2017):  With the release of Rails 5.1, Rails now has native support for using React via the webpacker gem. Check out the free lesson on how to do this in the Free React on Rails course or see this blog post.


There are a few different ways to use React inside Ruby on Rails apps. In this post, I'll cover 3 of the most popular ways.

1. react-rails gem (https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails)

The react-rails gem is the simplest and quickest way to start using React inside your Rails app.

It uses the default Rails asset management and automatically transforms JSX into the asset pipeline using the Ruby Babel transpiler.

Assuming you already have a recent version of Ruby and the Rails gem installed, here's how you get started with react-rails.

Add the gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'react-rails'

bundle install

Original here ;) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto#/media/File:Matz.jpg
Here's an excerpt from my article on Medium:

Rails developers should learn React because there's growing market demand for developers who know both. Learning to use React will make you more money and a better developer.

In many ways, React is to the modern frontend, what Rails is to the backend - there are many alternatives, but React has the best combination of simplicity, power and community momentum to make it a great choice.

Web UIs have matured a lot over the last decade. We're doing more complex things to build better user experiences on the web. jQuery has served well but even a medium-sized project can now quickly turn into the Flying Spaghetti Monster. React offers a simple yet powerful alternative to spaghetti code.

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Marko Vuletič is a Slovenian web & mobile UI/UX design professional. His work is centred around creating apps and websites which are visually pleasing, but, most importantly, functional and user-friendly. An app he redesigned, Moments, has been featured by the US App Store as the best new app. Marko also writes a popular blog and newsletter about designing apps in Sketch, called Sketch Tricks. He agreed to speak to Learnetto about it, as well as about what it means to be a UI/UX designer and how to learn design.   

Marko Vuletič

Hrishi Mittal (HM): Hi Marko, how are you doing?

Marko Vuletič (MV): I’m great, thank you for having me. How are you?

HM: Yeah, I’m very well, thank you! It’s nice to have you. Thanks for taking the time to speak to me today. Would you like to introduce yourself for the audience?

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1. I put up a landing page with a Mailchimp mailing list signup form. 
2. One thing I'm working on next is offering a free course as an incentive for signing up.
3. I've been promoting the landing page on Twitter (using both my personal and business accounts).
4. I made a Twitter card. FINALLY. After trying and failing 10 times, I did it. Twitter makes it unnecessarily hard to do this. So I had just given up on it. But Justin lays out the process for doing this clearly in his book. Most important thing to remember: you need to add a credit card to your account to use this feature, but you won't be charged unless you run an ad campaign.
5. I've started sharing my process - in this very note you're reading now!
6. I've added analytics tracking using Segment. Again, Justin describes how to do this in his book very clearly. With Segment set up, I was able to start sending my analytics data to Mixpanel and Intercom.