--- title: "React 16.10 released" publication: "React Status" issue: 158 published_at: "2019-10-02" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/158" --- This week's React news #158 — October 2, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/158) React Status Your weekly React news digest, every Wednesday [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1570019889/buvcghhl3vpzubq82775.png)](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/dont-sync-state-derive-it) [Don't Sync State, Derive It](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/dont-sync-state-derive-it) — Avoid synchronization bugs and hidden complexity by _deriving_ (or calculating) state on the fly rather than keeping numerous copies of state around your app. Kent C Dodds [React 16.10 Released](https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#16100-september-27-2019) — No official blog post (yet) but the latest version of React is here (16.10.0, mainly, but 16.10.1 followed quickly with a quick bugfix). It’s very much a bugfix and tweak release with no new features. React Project [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c4b285c0.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/learn/react/) [The Complete ⚛️ React Learning Path](https://frontendmasters.com/learn/react/) — Take your React to the next level to find out what it is fully capable of with this comprehensive learning path! Frontend Masters sponsor [Gatsby Raises $15M in Funding](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2019-09-26-announcing-gatsby-15m-series-a-funding-round/) — An exciting and rare bit of business news in the React world as the company maintaining the Gatsby React-powered static site generator have taken on funding to grow further. Kyle Mathews [Flutter Catches Up with React Native on Stack Overflow](http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=%5Breact-native,flutter%5D&relative=true) — The number of Stack Overflow questions about a technology is a crude measure of popularity, but it’s interesting to see how rapidly Flutter (a Google created, Dart-flavored mobile development framework) has caught up with React Native. Tag Trends 💻 Jobs [React Developer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/remote-react-developer-jobs/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=react) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. X-Team [Find A Job Through Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-reactstatus&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-77585) — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 📘 Tutorials and Stories [A Quick Start Guide to Query Strings with React Router](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/10/01/a-quick-start-guide-to-query-strings-with-react-router/) — Did you know that React Router no longer comes with built-in support for query string parsing? Luckily, handling them yourself is not too difficult. Meredith Lind ▶[Redux with React, A 'Level 0' Tutorial for Beginners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kothp4eJfqg) — This is a good introduction to Redux (in just 19 minutes, too) but Redux is not truly necessary for an example like this, so always be aware of your options (e.g. easy-peasy). Rakib TG [Why Do We Need The Stale Closure Problem in The First Place?](https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/16956) — On the official React repo, a developer has opened an interesting issue based around his thinking of why we need to handle closure dependencies at all. Facebook [React Hooks Guide: In-Depth Tutorial with Examples. Start Learning](https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/react-hooks-guide/?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=reactstatus&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-react-blog-react-hooks-guide&utm_content=brieflink) Progress KendoReact sponsor [Test Driven Development Basics with React, React Testing Library, and Jest](https://developerhandbook.com/react/introduction-test-driven-development-react-jest/) — An entry-level walkthrough if you haven’t bothered with TDD in React yet. Jon Preece [Basic Functional Techniques with React](https://medium.com/@rossmichaelm/functional-techniques-with-react-509ea3c52ea) — A few (very) basic ideas, including partial application, short circuit evaluation, and using methods like `map`, `filter`, and `reduce` instead of loops. Ross Murray 🔧 Code and Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1570020019/it31y51xuvgksl6lmwin.png)](https://catc.github.io/react-timekeeper/) [React Timekeeper: A Google Keep-Style Time Picker Component](https://catc.github.io/react-timekeeper/) — This is really slick. Check out the [examples (with code).](https://catc.github.io/react-timekeeper/#examples) It does feel very Android/Material Design-y though. Catalin C [NSFW JS for React Native](https://shift.infinite.red/nsfw-js-for-react-native-a37c9ba45fe9) — [NSFW JS](https://github.com/infinitered/nsfwjs) is a client-side ‘indecent content’ detection library, and now you can use it with React Native apps too. Kevin VanGelder [ReactContentLoader: An SVG-Powered 'Loading Placeholder' Component](https://github.com/danilowoz/react-content-loader) — Less than 2KB in size, no dependencies, customizable, and supports React Native too. Danilo Woznica [A Toolkit to Deliver Your API-First Product to Millions of Developers](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_source=react_status&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=oct2) — Everything you need to build, grow, and extend your platform. Manifold sponsor [React Scroll Parallax: Components to Create Parallax Scroll Effects](https://github.com/jscottsmith/react-scroll-parallax) — Adds vertical or horizontal scrolling based offsets to elements based on their position in the viewport. [Here’s a demo page.](https://jscottsmith.github.io/react-scroll-parallax-examples/examples/parallax-example/) J Scott Smith [Ink 2.4 Released: React, but for Building Interactive CLI Apps](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink) — Build your command line apps using React-style components. 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