---
title: "React Native 0.61, and React Riot takes place this weekend"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 157
published_at: "2019-09-25"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/157"
---

This week's React news       

#157 — September 25, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/157)   React Status Your weekly React news digest, every Wednesday   

[Announcing React Native 0.61 with Fast Refresh](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2019/09/18/version-0.61) — Version 0.61 of React Native includes a new reloading experience called ‘Fast Refresh’ which brings together live reloading and hot reloading in an elegant way. Other changes include the addition of the `useWindowDimensions` hook and an upgrade of the underlying React version to [16.9](https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/08/08/react-v16.9.0.html). 

Dan Abramov   

[React Router v5.1 Released](https://reacttraining.com/blog/react-router-v5-1/) — _“Easily the most notable feature in this release is the addition of some hooks (for React 16.8 users, ofc). We are excited about the ability that hooks give us to **compose state and behavior** instead of just composing elements.”_ [GitHub repo](https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router). 

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[State Colocation Will Make Your React App Faster](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/state-colocation-will-make-your-react-app-faster) — This is all about the idea of keeping state as local to your components as possible for both performance and maintenance reasons. 

Kent C Dodds   

▶[React Hooks: The 'Weird Ones'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxY7SzIN44o) — A ten minute introduction to `useDebugValue`, `useLayoutEffect` and `useImperativeHandle`. 

Bitovi   

[React Riot: An Annual Online React Hackathon](https://www.reactriot.com/) — A popular React-themed 48-hour hackathon that takes place each year. Wherever you are, you can take part, and the next one is this weekend (September 28-29). 

React Riot  

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📘 Tutorials and Stories  

[Sharing TypeScript Code Between the Web and React Native](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/09/24/typescript-web-react-native/) — An explanation of how a team reused code from their normal front-end webapp in a React Native app. 

John Ruble   

[Recursion in React: Render Comments with Nested Children](https://coderrocketfuel.com/article/recursion-in-react-render-comments-with-nested-children) — The example of recursion worked upon here is a component that can display a tree of comments. 

Nick Major   

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[React Lazy: A Take on Preloading Views](https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/preloading-views-with-react) — How to add preloading to your route based code split apps. 

Maxime Heckel   

[How to Deploy a React App to Production on AWS with Express, Postgres, PM2 and NGINX](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/production-fullstack-react-express/) — There’s a lot to digest in this walk through of setting up an AWS deployment setup from scratch for a React-based webapp. 

Mohammad Iqbal  

🔧 Code and Tools  

[Glean: React Refactoring Tools for VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wix.glean#wixglean) — Do things like extract JSX into components, convert class components to functional components, wrap JSX with a conditional, and more. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/wix/vscode-glean). 

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[styled-components 4.4: Visual Primitives for The Component Age](https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components/releases/tag/v4.4.0) — Version 5 was [announced months ago](https://medium.com/styled-components/announcing-styled-components-v5-beast-mode-389747abd987) but this is the last 4.x release before 5 makes its final appearance. 

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[React-PDF: A Renderer for Creating PDFs](https://react-pdf.org/) — Works in the browser or on the server. 

Diego Muracciole   

[react-native-pager: A Controllable Pager Component for React Native](https://github.com/CrowdLinker/react-native-pager) 

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[A 'Puzzle Piece'-Based React Confirmation Modal Component](https://github.com/ozluy/react-puzzle-confirm) — A somewhat specific component but it does the job. [Demo here.](https://codesandbox.io/s/react-puzzle-confirm-fsdcf) 

Yusuf Özlü   

[iframe-resizer-react: Enables Automatic Resizing of iFrames to Fit Content](https://github.com/davidjbradshaw/iframe-resizer-react) 

David J. Bradshaw   

[React DnD 9.4.0: Utilities to Create Drag and Drop Interfaces](http://react-dnd.github.io/react-dnd/about) 

Chris Trevino         

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