useEffect and useRef Explained for Mortals — “Sometimes the pantheon of React Gods have a hard time translating their wisdom into language the rest of us can understand.” If you agree, this straightforward introduction may well be for you.

Lee Warrick

Fix The Slow Render Before You Fix The Re-Render — Kent covers how to start optimizing your React app renders before focusing on reducing the number of re-renders. Essentially, fix the underlying performance ‘disease’ rather than reducing the symptoms.

Kent C Dodds

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Dan Abramov Shows Off 'Fast Refresh', Coming to React Native 0.61 — “It’s like the old “hot reloading” feature, but rebuilt from scratch for better reliability, error resilience, and function component support.” And you can already help out by testing it.

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Microsoft Continuing Work on React Native — Microsoft has been doing a lot of work with React Native recently, including using it in the Office suite for cross-platform components.

Mike Grabowski on Twitter

React Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands.

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Job Searching Without The Searching? Try hackajob 🔎 — Let your skills do the talking. Our AI matches you to roles based on your favourite JavaScript framework so you can do what you love.

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Some Frustrations with React Hooks — “Before I detail my current frustrations with Hooks I do want to state for the record that I am, for the most part, a fan of Hooks..”

Paul Cowan

📕 20 Patterns to Watch for in Engineering Teams — Actionable insights to help you debug your development process with data. Get your copy.

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Building an In-App Notification System in React Native — How to implement a reliable and good looking notification system in React Native.

Vadim Korobeinikov

Create an Offline-First React Native App Using WatermelonDB — WatermelonDB is a React-specific database abstraction built on top of SQLite.

Dhanraj Acharya

Best Practices for Unit Testing in React 16

Anat Kleiman (Uber Engineering)

React Suite 4.0: A Suite of 'Sensible' UI Components — A set of components that’s been under active development for a couple of years now. Supports React 16+, uses TypeScript, and they work on all major browsers. Components include things like buttons, modals, drawers, navigation bars, form input fields, tables, calendars, and more. GitHub repo.

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Storytime: Tell Stories About Pieces of Code — This is hard to explain without a demo, so check out this explain demonstrating how React Fiber works.

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Urql 1.5: A Versatile GraphQL Client for React — In the few months since we last linked to urql, it’s made some big steps. This latest release adds shortcuts to imperatively make queries and mutations, making it easier to quickly use the client programmatically.

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React Spinners CSS: A Collection of CSS 'Loading Spinner' Components

Josh Kuttler

Markdown Editor: A Simple, React-Powered Markdown Editor with Preview

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