#276 — February 16, 2022 |
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A Deep Dive into React Native’s New Architecture — A new architecture for React Native is being rolled out in 2022, as described in this post from the React Native team. Here are some independent observations. Atharva Patil |
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Some Reasons to Dislike React Hooks? — Amazingly, hooks have been with us for three years(!) this month (since React 16.8) and they’re now an integral part of the React landscape. However, there’s always room for a little introspection regarding their potential weaknesses. Daniel Rotter |
The Truth Is in the Code: Fixing Vulnerabilities with Sourcegraph — Remediate vulnerabilities with confidence knowing you found every instance of affected code and track your remediation initiatives to completion with automated fixes and pull requests. With Sourcegraph, timely resolution is a search away. Sourcegraph sponsor |
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Calling Windows APIs from React Native Just Got Easier — The just-announced React Native WinRT project will enable devs to call Windows Runtime APIs directly from JavaScript. So what can you do with that? How about the Windows 11 Settings page for example. Angela Zhang (Microsoft) |
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🎧 The React Show: A React Podcast — This podcast is now 37 episodes old and has already covered a wide variety of React topics. The roughly 60-90 minute format provides plenty of opportunity to cover topics in-depth, with the latest episode covering React’s Fiber reconciliation mechanism. Owl Creek Studio podcast |
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The React Beginner's Guide for 2022 — With 276 issues under our belt and over 50,000 subscribers, it’s easy to forget that each issue is read by at least a few who are just getting started with React. This guide provides the basics to get you going. Reed Barger |
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❓ If Meta/Facebook 'Dies', Might React Follow? — An interesting, open-ended discussion that at least started with this fairly deterministic question, but quickly morphed into a reasonably elevated discussion of the wide variety of future, potential problems for Meta and how those bear (or not) on the future of React. Hacker News |
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A Better Way to Handle State with Immer
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Comparing and Contrasting React’s useState and useReducer Hooks
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React95 3.11: Windows 95-Style UI Components for React — A fun set of Windows 95 themed UI components for React apps and built with styled-components. Enjoy their very retro homepage. Of course, we had to celebrate this 3.11 release in homage to Windows 3.11! Artur Bień |
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Griffel: CSS-in-JS with Ahead-of-Time Compilation — From Microsoft, another option for a CSS-in-JS solution. This one boasts near-zero runtime, SSR support, and styles defined with JS objects, among other features. Microsoft |
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Slinky: Write React Apps in Scala — Take advantage of the object-oriented and functional programming capabilities of the flexible JVM-oriented Scala language within React. Shadaj Laddad |
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How Content Migration to Headless CMS Could Be Your Last Kontent by Kentico sponsor |
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react-tree: A Hierarchical Object Tree Component for React — Try a demo here. Supports dark, light, and custom themes, and multiple widths. Naisu Technology Co. |
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React Stripe.js: React Components for Stripe.js and Stripe Elements Stripe |
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react-native-progress: SVG-based Progress Indicators and Spinners for React Native Joel Arvidsson |
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