Creating videos with React gets even better

July 5, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  What’s Next For Redux? (with Mark Erikson) — The king of the React YouTubers takes a break from his usual screencast format to sit down with Redux maintainer Mark Erikson (a.k.a. acemarke) to talk about both the current and future states of Redux and Redux Toolkit, both of which are approaching major new versions.

Jack Herrington

Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023“SVGs in JS have a cost and SVGs do not belong into your JS bundle.” A look into why you shouldn’t have SVGs in your JS bundle and better techniques for using them from JSX.

Jacob Groß

IN BRIEF:

  • Next.js v13.4.8 is a bigger release than its version number lets on, including significant performance improvements to the compiler and HMR / React Fast Refresh, as well as bug fixes.

  • Did you know that React can update state while rendering? Here’s more on how that works from Mark Erikson.

  • 🐝 We’re doing a full feature on it in an upcoming issue, but Wasp is worth a look if you’d like a Rails-like framework for React. It uses Node and Prisma behind the scenes. There are many moving parts, but the project has just gone through its latest ‘launch week’ and it looks intriguing.

  • TypeScript 5.2 Beta has been released.

▶  The Cost of JavaScript in 2023 — In just 35-minutes, Web performance expert Addy Osmani covers the various ways JS apps are delivered and rendered, the constraints of the hardware running them, and techniques you can use to keep things running smoothly.

Addy Osmani

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shadcn/ui: Tailwind CSS Components to Copy and Paste — If you’re a Tailwind CSS fan, these components will be right up your street. As the creators say: “This is NOT a component library. It’s a collection of re-usable components that you can copy and paste into your apps.”

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