Have you ever explored how React works under the hood, in its source code? As a Senior Frontend Developer specializing in React, surprisingly, I hadn't until this year, when I decided to make it a priority.

Spoiler alert - it's not easy! The React and React-DOM bundles that come in the npm packages don't expose source maps, and certain transformations make the code hard to read. So I decided to figure out how I could bundle the source code myself to facilitate following along in a few courses I found on React internals. This talk presents that process and the pretty-good but still work-in-progress outcome.