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Video: How Grafana Uses React to Power the World of Observability

Nathan Marrs

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Grafana leverages React to enhance its open-source platform, offering a vast ecosystem and improved performance. The platform uses a combination of state management tools such as Redux, RxJS, Props, and Context to address the challenges posed by React's state management. Grafana supports a variety of data sources, providing flexibility in data visualization, which aligns with its BigTent philosophy. This philosophy allows for integration with sources like Kubernetes clusters, Raspberry Pis, cloud services, and even Google Sheets. React Hooks, despite their complexity, have been instrumental for developers. Grafana's new Scenes library aims to simplify development, eliminating the need for concepts like useEffects and useCallbacks. This development is part of Grafana's ongoing efforts to reduce the learning curve and improve the user experience. For those interested in Grafana JS and Grafana GraphQL, the platform continues to evolve, providing tools that cater to a wide range of user needs.

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FAQ

Nathan Mars is the tech lead of the data visualization squad at Grafana Labs.

Grafana's BigTent philosophy supports a broad observability ecosystem, providing users with flexibility in visualizing data from various sources like Kubernetes clusters, Raspberry Pis, cloud services, and Google Sheets.

Users interested in learning more about Grafana and its new Dashboard Runtime Library, Scenes, should check out the upcoming GrafanaCon conference.

Grafana is an open-source platform that enables millions of users to visualize and analyze their data.

Grafana has faced challenges with state management and the Hooks paradigm, including issues like stale closures and the need to understand React internals.

Grafana uses a mixture of state management tools including Redux, RxJS, Props, and Context, adapting them to fit specific problem spaces.

React's ecosystem, performance optimizations, and ubiquity have allowed Grafana to ship features faster, reduce technical debt, and facilitate community contributions.

No, initially Grafana used Angular. The team switched to React in 2018.

Grafana switched to React because migrating to Angular 2 was as much effort as switching to React, and React was more appealing to talented developers.

Grafana is developing a new approach called Scenes, which simplifies the development process and reduces the learning curve for developers. Scenes eliminate the need for complicated concepts such as useEffects and useCallbacks.

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