New job description for front-end web developers: 5+ years of designing game engines and optimizing rendering pipelines.

If the joke is lost please go read about the similarities between react and immediate mode rendering systems.

Honest question, would studying immediate mode rendering systems improve my understanding of React's system of doing things? If so, do you have a resource I could use?

The original talk?

http://mollyrocket.com/861

There's also a relatively recent library (C++)

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui