🐦/𝕏 'use server' / Server Actions Now in React Canary — No blog post – just a Twitter/X thread – but the React team has announced Server Actions (and Client Actions) are available in the latest React Canary release. Providing a way to run functions created alongside your components on the server-side, they’re now ready for adoption by libraries and frameworks, with the team seeking feedback before they arrive in a stable release. There’s also some basic docs.

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The 9 Best Recommendations in the New React Docs — The latest React docs include all sorts of recommendations on how to best write React code and Josh picks out several of his favorites covering areas like data fetching, extracting shared code into functions, and where to define components.

Josh Justice

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React Magic Motion: Automagical Animation for Components — Built on top of Framer Motion so you get all of its features, but with opinionated, default transitions for child components. Less effort on your part and Just Works™. GitHub repo.

Etesam Ansari

🔁  The Tao of React: Design, Architecture & Best Practices — A classic post on the topic of ‘best practices’ that’s so perennially popular in the React world. This was our most visited link in 2021, but is 🐦 still recommended by the author if you’re looking for some common sense practices to apply.

Alex Kondov

Adding Screen Capture Functionality to a React Native App — Explore how and why you might use the react-native-view-shot library to implement screen capture in a React Native app.

Nitish Sharma

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Web Animation for Your React App: Framer Motion vs GSAP — A comparison of two different animation approaches, namely Framer Motion and GSAP, with the benefits, drawbacks, differences, and setup of each.

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Storybook 7.5: The Popular UI Component Workshop — It’s no longer React exclusive, but Storybook gains plenty of React oriented improvements including much faster startup times for React TypeScript projects, improved Next.js support, as well as Vite 5 support.

Michael Shilman

MDX 3: Use JSX in Your Markdown Content — Despite the major version number, it’s a relatively small release in terms of features, though you can now use ES2024 syntax as well as await, where supported by your underlying framework. There’s a v2 to v3 migration guide.

Titus Wormer

Headless Hashnode: A Headless Blogging Approach for Developers — Hashnode is a popular blogging platform for developers and it now has a headless mode so you can use Hashnode’s platform for writing your posts but then render them out for yourself. A Next.js ‘starter kit’ is offered to get you up and running quickly.

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