A Visual Roadmap to Becoming a React Developer in 2018 — This stirred up a lot of opinions on social media and places like Hacker News and became our most popular link of 2018. While it’s not essential to learn everything to be a good React developer, this illustration did give a reasonable lay of the land.

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The React 16.x Roadmap — If you’ve been following the React world over the past year, you’ll have run into a variety of new concepts like hooks and ‘Suspense’ and possibly wondered how it all fits into the big picture which this post tidily explains.

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Redux, It's Not Dead Yet — Earlier this year, there was a little talk in the community about how Redux was becoming less relevant, but one of Redux’s maintainers addressed the ‘confusion, claims, and misinformation’ over Redux’s role and future and things have continued well with react-redux 6.0 dropping just this month.

Mark Erikson

A Comprehensive Guide to Learning React in 2018 — A classic, interactive ‘from scratch’ tutorial that was upgraded this year to modern React 16 standards.

Tyler McGinnis

Why Airbnb Had to 'Sunset' Its Use of React Native — Airbnb explains how they were unable to overcome some technical and organizational challenges around React Native and are reinvesting in native development. React Native, itself, however has continued to grow and propser.

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5 Common Practices You Can Stop Doing in React — Some patterns help you improve your overall workflow whereas a few others have significant side effects..

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React Concepts You Should Know (After You Learn The Basics) — If you’re still pretty new to React, this is for you. You’ve followed some tutorials, maybe got your first React app working, but what’s worth understanding next? Context, HOCs, and lifecycle methods for starters.

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5 Things I Didn't Know About Create React App

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Redux vs. the React Context API — How the context API introduced in React 16.3 works compared to Redux and why you’d choose one over the other.

Dave Ceddia

Ways to Eliminate Common React Performance Issues — A pragmatic step-by-step guide to eliminating common React-related performance issues.

Ohans Emmanuel

The Best Way to Bind Event Handlers in React — Explores common ways of creating event bindings in React, their pros and cons, plus the author’s favorite approach.

Charlee Li

React Lifecycle Visualizer: A Real-Time Visualizer for Lifecycle Methods — Trace components by applying a single higher-order component which makes all lifecycle-method calls show up in an animated log. Live demo on StackBlitz.

Martijn Schrage

Introducing the React Profiler — An official blog post about React’s experimental Profiler API included with React 16.5+. It collects timing information about each component that’s rendered so you can begin to identify performance bottlenecks in your apps.

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Nerv: A Fast IE8- and React 16-Compatible React Alternative — In a similar vein to Preact, Nerv bills itself as a tinier, faster React alternative and has browser compatibility as a particular focus. We first linked to it in January but releases continue to come out.

Li Weitao

Rekit Studio: An IDE for React and Redux Development — The stable release of Rekit Studio, a complete IDE for React, Redux and React Router development, is now available.

Nate Wang

Create React App 2.0 Released — This year saw a significant release of a project that’s had a huge effect on the adoption of React by making it easier to get a project started.

Joe Haddad and Dan Abramov

Glean: A Refactoring Tool for React Code

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Hyperscript Tagged Markup: A JSX Alternative using Standard Tagged Templates — A clever idea popped up recently.. take JSX-style syntax but in plain JavaScript (using tagged templates) so no special transpilation is required.

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Evergreen: A React UI Framework — Polished React components from buttons and text inputs to menus, side sheets and tables.

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