Tag: react

Explaining why React re-renders

September 6, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

👋 If you didn’t receive any issues recently, we were on vacation.. but we’re back! It’s been a quiet summer for the React world, though, so catching up won’t be too tricky – let’s get moving.. 😉__Peter Cooper and the Cooperpress team Astro 3.0 Released — Astro…

Official docs on using TypeScript with React

August 16, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

⛱ I’m taking two weeks off and will be back on Wednesday, September 6. So if you don’t see the newsletter turn up for a while, rest assured it’s not your fault 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor ‘My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM’ — Mark, well known…

Figuring out if you should use React Server Components

August 2, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Understanding React Server Components — If you’ve struggled to get your head around the ideas involved with React Server Components, and Dan Abramov’s ‘let’s recreate RSCs from scratch’ went a little too deep, this is a good, high-level explanation of the fundamentals that explains what…

Demystifying React Server Components

July 12, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

The React Graph Gallery — Live demonstrations of a vast array of different charts and graphs built with React and D3.js, complete with explanations and code you can take away to reproduce them for yourself. Particularly striking examples include Sankey diagrams, treemaps, and correlograms, but…

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…

Svelte 4 released

June 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

UnsuckJS: Comparing Lightweight JavaScript Options — “No build tools, no compilers, and no hassle.” It’s a table of frontend JavaScript libraries on a simple page – that’s it! But it’s a handy table, letting you see the relative popularity, size, and latest versions of libraries as…

Happy birthday to React

May 31, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  Celebrating 10 Years of React — Grab yourself a slice of cake, React is 10 years old. As part of the celebrations, Vercel’s Delba de Oliveira ▶️ hosted a ‘roundtable’ discussion (though the table itself has taken the day off ????) with Andrew Clark and…

Understanding React concurrency

May 24, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Full Stack for Front-End Engineers with Jem Young (Netflix) — Learn what it means to become a well-rounded full-stack engineer with this hands-on video course. You’ll dive into servers, work with the command line, understand networking and security, set up continuous integration and deployment, manage…

Dan Abramov takes React back to the future

May 17, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

▶  React from Another Dimension with Dan Abramov — At Remix Conf 2023, Meta’s Dan Abramov (of both React and Redux fame) gave an illuminating talk about server-side components and server actions, by way of thinking about what React might have been like if the modern JavaScript…

React gets a new ‘Canary’ release channel

May 10, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Next.js 13.4 Released — Despite the minor version bump, this is a big release for the popular React framework. The new app router and its improved approach to filesystem based routing is now offered as a stable feature, with a new concept of server actions…