#124 — Febraury 6, 2019 |
React Status |
React v16.8 Released: It's The One With Hooks — There was surely going to be no other top featured item this week! While hooks have been in React in an experimental form for a few months now, they’re now a truly official part of React. If you’re not used hooks yet, there’s a great ‘at a glance’ view of what they’re about. Dan Abramov |
React as a UI Runtime — Dan is keen to note that you don’t need to know this stuff as a day to day React developer but… if you’re curious, this is an incredibly in-depth exploration of the React programming model. Dan Abramov |
Design for Developers ✨ New Course by Sarah Drasner — Become more self-sufficient for the entire process for execution, from concept to design to implementation. Understand the rules for designing and learn to create complex and beautiful front-end experiences. Frontend Masters sponsor |
Garbage Collection in Redux Applications — SoundCloud’s Xbox (yes, Xbox) app is a React and Redux app that runs in a native web view wrapper and due to Xbox related limitations a ‘memory leak’ (of sorts) was causing issues. Jan Monschke (SoundCloud) |
The React-Redux Roadmap — React-Redux v6 came out a couple of months ago - here the core team lay out what changes were made, why, and what the plan is going forward to resolve of the remaining issues. Mark Erikson |
💻 React Jobs |
JavaScript Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands. X-Team |
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📘 Tutorials |
▶ Updating Kent C Dodds |
Making Dan Abramov |
Creating a Responsive Layout in React — Learn the basic steps to setup a React application with Flexbox and make your layout responsive. Eric Bishard |
▶ A Video Series on Building Next.js Projects with TypeScript and GraphQL — There are ten easily digestible screencasts so far to enjoy if you want to get up to speed with Next.js. Ben Awad |
How I Built An Async Form Validation Library in ~100 Lines of Code with React Hooks Austin Malerba |
Send Data to Any Analytics Tool Without Having to Implement a New API Segment sponsor |
Using React and XState to Build a Sign In Form Brad Woods |
React Semantic UI Tutorial for Beginners Yomi Eluwande |
🔧 Code and Tools |
react-wordart: WordArt Nostalgia for React — Take a trip back to the 90s and using Microsoft Works’ WordArt feature to spice up your homework 😆 Shalom Yerushalmy |
Sing App React - Admin Dashboard to Speed Up Your Development Process — An SSR and Node.js backend will save you time even further. Build any type of apps: SaaS, e-commerce, analytics dashboards. Flatlogic dashboards sponsor |
WatermelonDB: A High Perf Database for React and React Native Apps — We linked this when it first came out but it’s come a long way since. Nozbe |
react-window: Components for Efficient Rendering of Lists and Tabular Data Brian Vaughn |
A Boilerplate for Configuring React and Three.js — If you want to get started with WebGL from React as quickly as possible? Asjad Anis |
After.js: A React Router Server-Rendered React Framework — “If Next.js and React Router had a baby…” Jared Palmer |