--- title: "Gatsby 5 - faster than ever before" publication: "React Status" issue: 313 published_at: "2022-11-09" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/313" --- Plus a love letter to React, building desktop apps with React and Go, and a Next.js 13 tripping point to keep in mind. | #​313 — November 9, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/313) Together with [![Stytch logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_250,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/ybmf19rrsbnymq3rn7n3.png)](https://stytch.com/?utm_source=react-status&utm_medium=paid_sponsorship&utm_campaign=react-status-masthead-20221109) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/w9l1vq2x2rfxgld8i10s.jpg)](https://fly.io/blog/love-letter-react/) [A Love Letter to React (from the Creator of Phoenix)](https://fly.io/blog/love-letter-react/) — Actually, less a love letter but rather an independent enumeration of React’s positive qualities from the folks at [Fly.io](https://fly.io). An interesting angle is the author is the creator of Elixir’s [Phoenix framework](https://www.phoenixframework.org/) which itself borrows ideas from React. Chris McCord (Fly.io) [Gatsby 5.0: The Fastest Gatsby Yet](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/gatsby-5/) — The performance oriented React-based framework that isn’t Next.js takes another step forward with a [Slice API](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/built-in-components/gatsby-slice/) for speeding up common updates across a site, partial hydration in beta form, a new Script component for.. loading scripts, incremental builds and deploys, and a lot more. The team has been teasing this for a while, not least by pitching Gatsby as a [‘reactive site generator’](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/re-introducing-gatsby-a-reactive-site-generator/). Josh Johnson (Gatsby Team) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2625cfa1.png)](https://stytch.com/?utm_source=react-status&utm_medium=paid_sponsorship&utm_campaign=react-status-primary-20221109) [Build Frictionless, Secure, High-Converting Onboarding Flows](https://stytch.com/?utm_source=react-status&utm_medium=paid_sponsorship&utm_campaign=react-status-primary-20221109) — Stytch is your all-in-one developer platform for authentication. From email magic links, OTP, and passwords to OAuth, biometrics, and web3 - launch your login flow in minutes using our API and SDKs. [Sign up and start building for free](https://stytch.com/?utm_source=react-status&utm_medium=paid_sponsorship&utm_campaign=react-status-primary-20221109%20). Stytch sponsor [Is Turbopack Really 10x Faster Than Vite?](https://github.com/yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr/discussions/8) — The big news [two issues ago](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/311) was Vercel’s unveiling of [Turbopack](https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack), a Rust-based ‘successor’ to Webpack boasting significant perf improvements. Vue (and Vite’s) Evan You decided to run some benchmarks and ended up pretty deep down the rabbit hole. Evan You [Rockpack 3.0: An Alternative React App Builder](https://github.com/AlexSergey/rockpack) — Like _Create React App_ the goal is to get project setup time as low as possible, but Rockpack holds some different opinions around how far to take things and packs in a lot of ideas including server side rendering and, [now](https://github.com/AlexSergey/rockpack/releases/tag/3.0.0), linting. Alex Sergey [Build a Desktop App in Go with Wails and React](https://t.co/GaoIUjHlJa) — As Electron is to Node, [Wails](https://wails.app/) is to Go(lang). Ish. You can build desktop apps for Mac, Linux and Windows with JavaScript in the front, Go powering the back. This is more a taster than a full tutorial, but there’s a [handy repo](https://github.com/dedSyn4ps3/wails-react-demo) if you want to see how the code fits together. Ed Rutherford [How to Create Images with DALL-E and React](https://t.co/7zrAJDnnv6) — AI-created images are all the rage on social these days. Here’s how to incorporate the capabilities of one AI offering—[DALL-E](https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/)—into a React app now that DALL-E has an official API open to all. 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Jack Herrington [Exploring Bun’s Built-In React Boilerplate](https://medium.com/deno-the-complete-reference/react-boilerplate-with-bun-36808ee0bfaf) Mayank Choubey [Deploy a React App in 10 Minutes with AWS Amplify and Route 53](https://dev.to/aws-builders/deploy-react-app-in-10-minutes-with-aws-amplify-and-route-53-24om) Samuel Olubayo (AWS Community Builders) 🛠 Code and Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/jh7oybsnr3sy2uahoniq.jpg)](https://projects.wojtekmaj.pl/react-calendar/) [React Calendar 4.0: The 'Ultimate' Calendar for Your React App](https://projects.wojtekmaj.pl/react-calendar/) — A popular, simple-styled calendar component for React apps, focused mostly on letting users pick dates. Note that you’ll need to be on React 16.8+ to use v4.0 though. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-calendar). Wojciech Maj [CRACO 7.0: Create React App Configuration Override](https://github.com/dilanx/craco) — If you still prefer good old Create React App to bigger React app building options like Next.js, CRACO keeps you in CRA world but adds a comprehensible configuration layer on top. [Docs.](https://craco.js.org/docs/) Dilan [Stream’s Reimagined Web Theming API Emphasizes Customization and UX](https://getstream.io/blog/new-chat-theming-api-for-angular-and-react/?utm_source=ReactStatus&utm_medium=Promoted_Newsletter&utm_content=Developer&utm_campaign=ReactStatus_October2022_AngularReactBlogChat_klmh22) Stream sponsor [Ultra: 'Zero-Legacy' Streaming React Framework in Deno](https://ultrajs.dev/) — Built around native browser features like ES modules and import maps and very much _not_ into bundling. This project has quite the evocative Web page. Omar Mashaal et al. [A Wrapper Implementation of the SAP Fiori-Compliant UI5 Web Components](https://github.com/SAP/ui5-webcomponents-react) — If your goal is to extend SAP functionality with React, these components deliver a user experience which reflects their [Fiori](https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/fiori.html) technology platform. SAP [D-Tale: React-Based Visualizer for Pandas Data Structures](https://github.com/man-group/dtale) — If you need to interact with Python-based data analytics processes, this mature combination of a Flask-based backend and React frontend to visualize Pandas data structures could be up your street. Man Group [audio-player: A Hook-Based Audio Player](https://github.com/madzadev/audio-player) — Music player with custom controls, playlist, filters, and search. Madza Jobs [Find React Jobs with Hired](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-all%29%28cooper-reactstatus%29&utm_content=find-your-next-job) — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers. Hired - [React Bootstrap 2.6](https://react-bootstrap.github.io/) ↳ Bootstrap 5 components built on React. - [React Native Share 8.0](https://github.com/react-native-share/react-native-share) ↳ Share data to other (social) apps. - [React Flow 11.2](https://github.com/wbkd/react-flow) ↳ Library to create interactive node-based UIs. - [React DayPicker 8.3.6](https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker) ↳ Customizable date picker component. - [React Native Big List 1.6](https://github.com/marcocesarato/react-native-big-list) ↳ High performance list view for React Native. - [React-PDF 6.0.2](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-pdf) ↳ _Display_ PDFs as easily as if they were images. - [React Page 5.2](https://react-page.github.io/) ↳ Customizable content editor for the browser. - [Gestalt 81.0](https://github.com/pinterest/gestalt) ↳ Components atop Pinterest’s design system. This issue was curated by Terence C. Gannon and Peter Cooper and edited by the Cooperpress team. 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