--- title: "Go + React = Success" publication: "React Status" issue: 322 published_at: "2023-01-18" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/322" --- Plus a new React Native release, building great forms, and a handy way to visualize code blocks in VS Code. | #​322 — January 18, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/322) Together with [![ButterCMS\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_700,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:10/h4j9v0v4af8ufqqreqfq.png)](https://buttercms.com/react-cms/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=retirelegacycms) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/tssvlnb9xrth7lucrbod.jpg)](https://t.co/7KzLDKqSyc) [Why Is My Jest Suite So Slow?](https://t.co/7KzLDKqSyc) — [Jest](https://jestjs.io/) is known for its speed and simplicity so the author was surprised at how quickly his team’s test suite was slowing down. Some investigatory work followed and led to this writeup about the underlying problem and the improvements that slashed test running time by more than half. Steven Lemon [Embedding Our New React UI in a Go App](https://www.flipt.io/blog/embedding-react-in-go) — Flipt serves its web application from a single binary (built in the Go language), embedding the static assets therein. Go 1.16’s native embedding set them on a journey that led to React and it works pretty well - no Next.js needed. An interesting alternative approach. George MacRorie (Flipt) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/745c866c.png)](https://buttercms.com/react-cms/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=retirelegacycms) [🧈 Retire your Legacy CMS with ButterCMS](https://buttercms.com/react-cms/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=retirelegacycms) — ButterCMS is your new content backend. We’re SaaS so we host, maintain, and scale the CMS. 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This is no bite size tip video, though, checking in at a movie-like 95 minutes. Vlad Nicula 📗 New Book: [_Simplifying State Management in React Native_](https://www.amazon.com/Simplifying-State-Management-React-Native/dp/1803235039) — A comprehensive introduction to the different state management strategies available. It demonstrates various solutions and culminates with a case study of a social media clone app using all the concepts and examples covered in the book. 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If you still need convincing, there’s a [▶️ one minute introductory video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BedxVCzZ7o) Levan Katsadze [Inertia.js 1.0: Build SPAs for Any Backend](https://inertiajs.com/) — Inertia aims to be the ‘glue’ between various frontend libraries (React, Vue, or Svelte, say) and server-side frameworks (e.g. Rails or Laravel). If you’re already a user, here’s [what’s new in 1.0.](https://inertiajs.com/upgrade-guide) Jonathan Reinink [Build UIs Fast with 100+ Pre-Built React Components. Start for Free](https://retool.com/?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=reactstatus) Retool sponsor [nice-modal-react: A Modal State Manager from eBay](https://github.com/eBay/nice-modal-react) — A zero dependency way to manage modals in a natural idiomatically React way. 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You can test out a running version at [drift.lol.](https://drift.lol/) Max Leiter - [Remix 1.10.0](https://github.com/remix-run/remix/releases/tag/remix%401.10.0) ↳ Popular full stack framework. - [React Native Gesture Handler 2.9](https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler/releases/tag/2.9.0) ↳ Declarative native touch and gesture system. - [Tremor 1.5](https://github.com/tremorlabs/tremor) ↳ React library to build dashboards. - [tRPC 10.9](https://github.com/trpc/trpc) ↳ End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. - [React Arborist 2.3](https://github.com/brimdata/react-arborist) ↳ Full featured tree view component. - [MMKV 2.6.1](https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-mmkv) ↳ Fast key/value storage for React Native. - [Reactist 18.0](https://doist.github.io/reactist/?path=/story/reactist--page) ↳ Suite of React components. - [Valtio 1.9](https://valtio.pmnd.rs/) - [react-markdown 8.0.5](https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown) 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. 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