#149 — July 31, 2019 |
Taking Redux Off of the Main Thread with Comlink — Surma really has a thing for Web Workers recently, and with good reason too, since using them properly could yield significant UX and performance benefits. Can we get the non-UI work Redux is doing off of the main thread using Workers? Yes, and here’s one way to do it. Surma |
Do React Hooks Replace Redux? — This question has bounced around in the community a lot recently as more use cases for hooks emerge.. but Eric’s TLDR is ‘Hooks are Great, but No.’ and he explains why in depth. Eric Elliott |
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A Draft Changelog for React 16.9 — No, React 16.9 isn’t out yet, but if you’re testing (which Dan is encouraging you to do) or just curious.. Dan Abramov |
Getting Started Optimizing a React Native App — A developer who has spent a serious amount of time optimizing a bank’s mobile app shares several (very) quick tips based on what he learnt along the way. Thomas Kjær-Rasmussen |
React-Rails: A Way to Integrate React.js with Ruby on Rails Views — If you’re both a Ruby on Rails and React user, this popular tool will help with the integration between the two. v2.6.0 adds a TypeScript component generator. React Community |
💻 Jobs |
Frontend Developer - Remote — Build the web’s next-level document collaboration library with React. PSPDFKit |
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📘 Tutorials and Stories |
A Visual React Virtual DOM Postmortem — There is a chasm between using React to build UIs and needing to know how it actually works under the hood, but this neat graphic might help. JavaScript Teacher |
Writing Your Own React Custom Hooks — Understanding how and when to write your own custom hooks will enable you to extract reusable logic and clean up your code a bit. Timothy Vernon |
Send Data to Any Analytics Tool Without Having to Implement a New API Segment sponsor |
An Effective Pattern for Building Extensible Modals in React Andy Jones |
Decoupling Logic From React Components — An explanation and rationale for react-redux-api-tools, Redux middleware to separate the data fetching process from components. Luciano Ratamero |
How I Developed a Concurrent Mode Friendly Library for React-Redux Daishi Kato |
🔧 Code and Tools |
Semiotic: A React + D3 Data Visualization Framework — Supports a wide variety of visualization types such as swarm plots, isotype charts, radar plots, timelines, and more. There are neat demos and code examples for each. nteract |
A Web Tool to Create 'Striped Text' and Get Styled Components Code — One of several visual design tools on Components.ai. This one lets you dynamically create a stripy text effect and provides CSS and Styled Components code to use in your apps. Components.ai |
ReactToPrint: To Make React Components Printable — Provides a mechanism to let users print the contents of a component by popping up a new window and copying the styling across. gregn |
A Demo of Declarative Route Transitions with Framer Motion and React Router — A practical CodeSandbox-based example of creating animated route transitions. Matt Perry |
React Swipeable: Swipe Event Handler Component and Hook Dogfessional |