Category: react

React performance profiling with the DevTools

November 23, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Improving React Interaction Times by 4x — This is about as practical and real world as it gets. Causal’s engineers noticed some sluggish UI interactions in their React app (as many of us do) and were determined to get to the cause of the problem.…

Particle-arly impressive React

November 16, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

The Magical World of Particles with React Three Fiber and Shaders — An interactive introduction where you’ll learn all sorts about shaders and rendering particle effects with them. There’s actually a fair bit of JS here, it’s not all GLSL incantations. Does your next CRUD…

Gatsby 5 – faster than ever before

November 9, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  Gatsby 5.0: The Fastest Gatsby Yet — The performance oriented React-based framework that isn’t Next.js takes another step forward with a Slice API for speeding up common updates across a site, partial hydration in beta form, a new Script component for.. loading scripts,…

Going from Figma to React, responsively

November 2, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

✍️ If you missed last week’s issue, you’ll want to catch up as it was a big one with Next.js 13 and Turbopack getting announced. This week is a little quieter for big news, but there’s still plenty to be getting on with.. 🙂__Peter Cooper, your…

Stepping forward with Next.js 13

October 26, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  Industry-Leading React Components for Web Apps — We are excited to bring you powerful React components for your web applications. Offering built-in support, our powerful UI components, Excel-like library, and reporting platform can help you deliver impressive results. Empower your developers today. GrapeCity Turbopack: A…

Promises, promises..

October 19, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  💡 If, like me, you learn better from examples, here are code examples of simple server-side and client-side components using the idea under discussion. The Remix Fundamentals — Join Kent C. Dodds for this detailed video course and get up to speed on…

The future of rendering in React

October 12, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  The Future of Rendering in React — This kicks off with a review of current patterns (CSR/SSR) and then moves on to some of the new rendering patterns such as streaming SSR and server components. This was also the basis of a recent…

17 minutes to build up your ‘React brain’

October 5, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Together with  ▶  useState: Is it Asynchronous or.. Not? — Jack admits up front that the answer is.. it’s complicated. He digs into an example to help you ‘build your React brain’ by exploring what’s really going on behind the scenes, noting that the state setter…

LEGO’s take on an accessible select component

September 28, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

🔥  ‘Get in Zoomer, We’re Saving React’ — An opinion piece (often a polite term for ‘rant’) that has proven to be quite divisive on social – some love it, some hate it. If you want to take a risk at potentially being entertained with a…

Don’t bring me down.. Bruce!

September 21, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

🎵 About the subject line.. yes, I know. 😆 – Ed. ‘React I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down’ — An opinionated React thought piece that’s provoked much discussion this week. The author gets creative by checkpointing the progress (or lack thereof) of React…