Reading React’s source code – two takes

July 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Reading React’s Source Code — What better way to get a feel for a project than to dive into the code? Despite being daunted by the process, Alex decided to take a look, focusing mostly on React’s design and the practices employed by React’s developers over the years.

Alex Kondov

▶  Blazingly Fast ‘React’ with Fresh — One of the most popular React YouTubers out there heads Deno-side to look at Fresh, a new islands-based web framework that doesn’t use React per se but.. close enough, with Preact and JSX for rendering and templating.

Jack Herrington

React, Vue, Angular and Svelte Popularity by the Numbers — Some will argue you can’t measure the immeasurable, but this is a multifaceted (and frequently updated) attempt to quantify the popularity of popular front-end frameworks using public data. Unsurprisingly, React sits on top.

Tanguy Krotoff

Quick bits:

React Hooks: The Deep Cuts — Simple introductions to five of React’s allegedly “lesser-known” hooks, namely: useReducer, useRef, useImperativeHandle, useMemo and useCallback

Blessing Ene Anyebe

▶  Call Kent Podcast: Do You Read the React Source Code? — Kent’s massive, online, never-ending Q&A session. You, too, can record your question and Kent will listen to it, respond and both will appear in the podcast feed. This time around, Kent comments on a question about reading React source which he doesn’t read often but sees occasional value in doing so. (4 minutes.)

Kent C. Dodds podcast

Find React Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers.
Hired

🛠 Code and Tools

TanStack Table v8: Headless UI for Building Tables and Datagrids — Want the hard work of managing a table or data grid element taken care of but want to keep 100% control over markup and styles? This is what you need (if the idea of a ‘headless UI’ is new to you, read this intro). Note that it’s not just for React (vanilla, Vue, Solid and Svelte developers will be happy too).

Tanner Linsley

fireworks-js — A simple library for rendering firework effects – now in its second major release.

⚡️ THE RAPID RELEASES ROUND

react-spring 9.5 – Spring physics-based React animation library.
react-spreadsheet-grid 2.1 – Excel-like grid component.
Remotion 3.1.3 – Create videos programmatically with React.
react-three-fiber 8.2 – React renderer for Three.js.
react-native-permissions 3.6 – An Unified permissions API on iOS and Android.
react-big-calendar 1.5