--- title: "Ways to eliminate common React performance issues" publication: "React Status" issue: 109 published_at: "2018-10-10" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/109" --- This week's React news #109 — October 10, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/109) react status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/hgllsb6wpaibnmm7k8vh.jpg)](https://logrocket-blog.ghost.io/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-a-checklist-for-eliminating-common-react-performance-issues/) [Ways to Eliminate Common React Performance Issues](https://logrocket-blog.ghost.io/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-a-checklist-for-eliminating-common-react-performance-issues/) — Formerly titled “How to Eliminate React Performance Issues Now”, this is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to eliminating common React-related performance issues. Ohans Emmanuel [Hello, Create React App 2.0](https://www.telerik.com/blogs/hello-create-react-app-2) — The _big_ news [last week](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/108) was the release of [Create React App 2.0](https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/10/01/create-react-app-v2.html). This post takes a practical look at what’s changed and how it’s more useful than ever. Eric Bishard [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/82ce0099.png)](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/sending-email-from-your-frontend-application-using-mongodb-stitch-and-aws-ses?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship&utm_content=20181010&utm_medium=display&utm_source=reactstatus) [Emailing from Your Frontend App Using MongoDB Stitch & AWS SES](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/sending-email-from-your-frontend-application-using-mongodb-stitch-and-aws-ses?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship&utm_content=20181010&utm_medium=display&utm_source=reactstatus) — Get a quick introduction to sending emails via AWS SES with MongoDB Stitch. MongoDB sponsor [How to Manage React State with Arrays](https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-state-array-add-update-remove/) — It’s possible to rely on the simplest of JavaScript features to manage the state of your app, and Robin shows how versatile arrays are for this task here. Robin Wieruch [How to Build a Custom Date Picker with React](https://blog.logrocket.com/react-datepicker-217b4aa840da) — It seems we link a React component for picking dates almost every week, so.. how about learning how to build your own from scratch?! :-) Glad Chinda [The Suspense is Killing Redux](https://medium.com/@ryanflorence/the-suspense-is-killing-redux-e888f9692430) — If you’ve been hearing about _Suspense_ (first covered in [Dan Abramov’s JSConf Iceland talk](https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/01/sneak-peek-beyond-react-16.html) but aren’t sure where it fits in vs Redux, this will help, though Ryan notes _“Suspense won’t replace every use-case of Redux”_. Ryan Florence [Composing Components](https://developers.digital.abc.net.au/2018/09/28/composing-components/) — Insights from how the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) are transitioning their design process to working with the creation of React components. Tim Holt 💻 React Jobs [Work on Uber's Open Source Design Language](https://www.uber.com/careers/list/40899/) — We're developing Base UI, a new React component library for web applications at Uber and beyond. Join our team. Uber [Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love](https://www.hired.com/react) — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. Hired 📘 Tutorials [How to Make Your Existing React App Progressive in 10 Minutes](https://scotch.io/tutorials/how-to-make-your-existing-react-app-progressive-in-10-minutes) — So you wrote an amazing React app and now you are wondering how to make it progressive. Samuele Zaza [Build Interactive Diagrams with `storm-react-diagrams`](https://blog.sourcerer.io/build-interactive-diagrams-with-storm-react-diagrams-f172ae26af9d) Gwenael P [How Do Top Developers Deliver Video? - Download the 2018 Video Report](https://hubs.ly/H0dZrsh0) Bitmovin sponsor [Principles of Component API (Prop) Design](https://hackernoon.com/principles-of-component-api-prop-design-bb20cd58da54) — _“I can say with confidence that these principles have helped me build components that are easier to maintain and more enjoyable to work with”_ Chris Schmitz [Implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for React Apps](https://auth0.com/blog/role-based-access-control-rbac-and-react-apps/) — A pretty extensive tutorial, though given it’s Auth0-hosted, it’s no surprise it leans on their service ;-) Aditya Agarwal (Auth0) [Creating a Realtime Chess Game with React and ChatKit](https://pusher.com/tutorials/realtime-chess-game-react) — Use Node and React to create a realtime chess app, including chat functionality. Graham Cox (Pusher) 🔧 Code and Tools [VSCode Glean: A VS Code Extension for Refactoring React Code](https://github.com/wix/vscode-glean) — Extract JSX into new components, convert functions to stateful components, and more. Wix [react-color-tools: Tools for Working with Colors as React Components](https://github.com/nitin42/react-color-tools) — Including creating gradients, image color extraction, a color picker, and more. Nitin Tulswani [Experience Lower Latency with Spaces CDN](https://blog.digitalocean.com/spaces-now-includes-cdn/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+react+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=10-10-18+react+weekly+cooperpress) — Now with a built-in CDN, Spaces object storage delivers web assets up to 70% faster to your end users. DigitalOcean sponsor [Functional Data Grid: Rich Data Grids in a Functional Style with React](https://github.com/energydrink9/functional-data-grid) — There’s [a demo of it in action.](https://energydrink9.github.io/functional-data-grid-examples/) Michele Lugano [react-qr-reader: A Component for Reading QR Codes from a Webcam](https://github.com/JodusNodus/react-qr-reader) — There’s [a live demo](https://thomasbilliet.com/react-qr-reader/) if you want to give it a try. Thomas Billiet [React-Month-Picker: A Month-Picker Component](https://github.com/nickeljew/react-month-picker) — Earlier we said we link to a lot of date pickers, so.. how about a _month_ picker for once? ;-) [Stack Styled: A React Component to Produce Nice Stack Layouts](https://sapegin.github.io/stack-styled/) Artɘm Sapegin A **[Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/)** publication. 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