Category: react

Is React a Framework? Software Engineer Answering

June 22, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

By definition – React is one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries nowadays. It comes in second place after jQuery among all web frameworks! React’s popularity has grown rapidly thanks to a simple and declarative API that allows you to build high-performance applications, and…

What the React team is working on now

June 22, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

💡 Don’t miss the Quick Releases section further down this issue as there have been a ton of interesting new releases this week and we’ve had to pack them in! 🙂 React Labs: What The React Team is Working On — With the React 18…

A visual catalog of 5000+ components.

June 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Build Better Chat Faster With The Sendbird React UIKit — The new Sendbird Chat UIKit is easy-to-use and more customizable. Enable the best chat experience in your app with a free 30-day trial. Beyond 30 days, keep innovating for free with our developer plan. Sendbird Quick…

An alternative to useEffect

June 8, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Goodbye, useEffect? David Khourshid’s Reactathon Talk — Here, Stately founder David Khourshid makes the case for using event handlers and state machines to simplify handling effects in React apps rather than using useEffect which many developers struggle with and isn’t always well suited for the…

React Material Admin Full Update

June 2, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

As Material UI and React continue to grow and develop it has become clear that React Material Admin can’t live with the outdated versions of those libraries. What products are affected by the update? Currently, the updates were released on 2 products: What has changed?…

An open, high performance data grid

June 1, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Updated Course: Complete Intro to React — Join Brian Holt for this updated look at getting started with React. Covering things like hooks, effects, context, and portals. Throughout this video course you’ll learn about tools from across the entire React ecosystem (like Parcel, ESLint, TailwindCSS,…

Next.js vs React: Which One to Choose for Your App?

May 30, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The burning question today is What’s better: React or Next.js? Let’s have a look closely at both, compare them and see the difference between library and framework. In the React world, Next.js is one of the most popular frameworks for “hitting the ground running.” What…

React vs Vue: What to Choose in 2022?

May 26, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

React and Vue are the two most popular and widely used JavaScript frontend frameworks today. These frameworks allow developers to create a wide variety of web applications with JavaScript. Choosing between the two can be confusing if you are building a new application. Each has…

Big changes ahead for Next.js

May 25, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

A Roundup of React State Management Libraries in 2022 — React’s strength is its flexibility in fitting in with different development approaches, including state management where there are numerous options nowadays. This post does a basic roundup of several popular options including Zustand, Recoil (which…

Testing components with Playwright

May 18, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Aspect: A New Visual Environment for Building Components — It’s a new, unproven tool, but any efforts to simplify the development process are laudable to us, and you might find it useful too. Currently it only exports class components, but it’s great to see them…