#102 — August 24, 2018 |
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The React Rally conference took place last week and the videos are starting to be released. With the 'best and the brightest in the React community' speaking, there were a lot of great talks, so if you're not into videos, I apologize in advance as there are four of them in this issue. 🙂 |
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▶ Simply React: Why I Love React Patterns So Much — Practical, example-driven evangelism from Kent who tells a story to justify component patterns and why he thinks you should be using them yourself. Kent C Dodds |
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'I Published an iOS App with ClojureScript and React Native' — Not a particularly common stack choice at the moment, but ClojureScript has a lot of appeal if you like working with more functional languages and approaches. Joshua Miller |
🔨 JavaScript: The 'New' Hard Parts — In this new course, you'll develop an intuitive understanding of the new features of JavaScript in ES6+: iterators, generators, promises, and async/await. Go under the hood of async JS and learn to solve complex async challenges with ease. Frontend Masters sponsor |
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Creating Flexible and Reusable React File Uploaders — “The Event Creation team at Eventbrite needed a React based image uploader that would provide flexibility while presenting a straightforward user interface.” Here’s how they did it. Daniel Carter (Eventbrite) |
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▶ Algebraic Effects, Fibers, Coroutines.. Oh My! — A talk that sheds some light on some of the more academic concepts relating to recent work on React. Really well presented and explained. Brandon Dail (Facebook) |
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▶ Why React is Not (Fully) Reactive — In his first ever conference talk, a well-known React developer introduces some basic reactive concepts, digs into just how ‘reactive’ (or not) React really is, and how a fully reactive React could work. Shawn 'swyx' Wang |
💻 React Jobs |
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Senior Front End Engineer at External Data Systems, Netflix — Help build a world class user interface for the platform that collects data to drive business insights for our teams. Netflix |
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Find A React Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery |
📘 Tutorials |
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A Brief Comparison of 4 Ways to Reduce Redux Boilerplate — redux-bits, redux-actions, reduxr, createReducerActions, and autodux are considered. Spoiler: He prefers autodux. Shawn 'swyx' Wang |
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Building a Scalable React Dev Environment Around Bazel — Bazel is a general build tool often used in more enterprise environments. Torgeir Helgevold |
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Webinar: Building Modern Apps with the MERN Stack and Google Cloud Platform MONGODB sponsor |
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Access Token Handling (Automatic Refresh) with React and Redux Nicholas Major |
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A Q&A with React Engineering Manager Sophie Alpert — Lots of useful tidbits here including stuff about the future of Suspense, community diversity, React Native, and Facebook’s use of Flow. Reactiflux |
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▶ Route Recalculating — The final talk of the React Rally event and our final video link in today’s newsletter too. 😉 Ryan Florence |
🔧 Code and Tools |
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React Developer Tools: Brings React Debugging Tools to Chrome's DevTools Chrome Web Store |
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React Toast Notifications: A Configurable Toast Notification System — For those pop-up ‘corner of the browser’ style notifications. Live demo. Joss Mackison |
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react-dropdown: A Simple Dropdown Component for React — Inspired by react-select. Demos here. Fraser Xu |
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Save Weeks per Year Fixing Unseen Bugs in Your React App with Sentry — Notify only the right person based on the commit and see unminified code in the stack trace with source maps. Sentry sponsor |
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React Editable JSON Tree — Basically what it says.. but the demo might help. Havrileck Alexandre |
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Laco: A Lightweight State Management for React and Inferno — Written in TypeScript. Deam Hansen |
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Async: A Flexible Promise-Based React Data Loader — If you’re interested in the ‘why’ behind this, here’s a full introductory article. Gert Hengeveld |