# What Are the React Team Principles?

DevFeed: [What Are the React Team Principles?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-are-the-react-team-principles-36204.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://overreacted.io/what-are-the-react-team-principles/>)

Published: 2019-12-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dan Abramov](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dan-abramov.md>)

Topics: [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>)

Tags: [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [properties](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/properties.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>), [user-interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-interfaces.md>)

## AI overview

The author distills personal observations of React team practices into several technical principles. The article argues that React design should begin with the desired user experience and work backward to APIs, while accepting internal complexity to keep product code understandable and support decentralized development.

## Source excerpt

UI Before API.