#298 — July 20, 2022 |
Reading React's Source Code — What better way to get a feel for a project than to dive into the code? Despite being daunted by the process, Alex decided to take a look, focusing mostly on React’s design and the practices employed by React’s developers over the years. Alex Kondov |
▶ Blazingly Fast 'React' with Fresh — One of the most popular React YouTubers out there heads Deno-side to look at Fresh, a new islands-based web framework that doesn’t use React per se but.. close enough, with Preact and JSX for rendering and templating. Jack Herrington |
GV (Google Ventures) Invests $35M Into React Notification Infrastructure — Too many engineering resources are wasted on notification template building and routing rules. This scalable and reliable no-code UI has parity with a robust API that lets you deliver to your users their preferred experience. Courier.com sponsor |
A Look at Remix and the Differences with Next.js — A good feature-by-feature comparison of the two React-based frameworks that share a ton of similarities but some key differences. Facundo Giuliani |
React, Vue, Angular and Svelte Popularity by the Numbers — Some will argue you can’t measure the immeasurable, but this is a multifaceted (and frequently updated) attempt to quantify the popularity of popular front-end frameworks using public data. Unsurprisingly, React sits on top. Tanguy Krotoff |
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React Hooks: The Deep Cuts — Simple introductions to five of React’s allegedly “lesser-known” hooks, namely: Blessing Ene Anyebe |
▶ Call Kent Podcast: Do You Read the React Source Code? — Kent’s massive, online, never-ending Q&A session. You, too, can record your question and Kent will listen to it, respond and both will appear in the podcast feed. This time around, Kent comments on a question about reading React source which he doesn't read often but sees occasional value in doing so. (4 minutes.) Kent C. Dodds podcast |
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▶ Digging into React Native 0.69
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Storing State in |
🛠 Code and Tools |
SVGR: Transform SVGs into React Components — If that sounds too good to be true, copy your favourite SVG file and paste it into their playground. Greg Bergé |
react-burger-menu: An Off-Canvas Sidebar Component using CSS Transitions and SVG Path Animations — The demo on the homepage lets you try out all the different animation effects for making the menu appear. I never realized there we so many ways to have a menu appear! GitHub repo. Imogen Wentworth |
Retool Tech Talk: Learn How Snowflake Automated User Access Reviews to Operate Faster Retool sponsor |
TanStack Table v8: Headless UI for Building Tables and Datagrids — Want the hard work of managing a table or data grid element taken care of but want to keep 100% control over markup and styles? This is what you need (if the idea of a ‘headless UI’ is new to you, read this intro). Note that it’s not just for React (vanilla, Vue, Solid and Svelte developers will be happy too). Tanner Linsley |
fireworks-js — A simple library for rendering firework effects – now in its second major release. |
react-simply-carousel — Simple, lightweight, fully-customizable carousel component with SSR support. |
react-easy-infinite-scroll-hook — A hook that adds infinite scroll to any component, as illustrated in their demo. |
react-super-responsive-table — Display table data in a way that scales down nicely on mobile. |
⚡️ THE RAPID RELEASES ROUND react-spring 9.5 – Spring physics-based React animation library. |