#425 — April 16, 2025 |
🥚 We're taking a little break for Easter but didn't want to take the entire week off, so we have a slimline issue for you today :-) Back to full Dev Mode™ next Wednesday! |
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Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. A lot to enjoy here! Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh |
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JSX Over the Wire — Dan Abramov builds on last week’s epic React for Two Computers with thoughts on the evolution of passing data from server to client, contrasting traditional REST endpoints with a BFF approach that builds screen-specific ViewModels mirroring React’s component tree. An enjoyable train of thought for anyone interested in how and why client/server apps are organized the way they are and how it could be even better. Dan Abramov |
React Day: Free Online Event with Expert Talks on Modern React — Join Frontend Nation’s React Day on April 29 - a FREE online event with top experts like Kent C. Dodds, Tejas Kumar, & more. Get real-world insights into performance, UI for AI, & modern frontend techniques. Get your free ticket now. React Day sponsor |
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Fastify + React – 7x Faster than Next.js? — Node’s Fastify framework has a mature plugin for Vite integration (explained in detail here), including @fastify/react which just hit version 1.0 and makes it easy to create fast, featureful (though obviously less so than Next.js) React apps atop Fastify. How fast? Very, it seems. Jonas Galvez |
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Creating an AI Chat Experience with React and OpenAI — If you’d rather create your own streaming chat UI for OpenAI’s models (such as for the new API-only GPT 4.1 models) Robin has some pointers for getting started. Robin Wieruch |
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📄 Migrating Grep from Create React App to Next.js – That’s Grep the code search engine, not |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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RedwoodJS Evolving into Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK — The full-stack React-based framework is shaking things up with the existing GraphQL-oriented framework becoming Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK being a more general app abstraction set to be explained properly in the coming weeks. RedwoodJS |
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react-photo-sphere-viewer: A Component to View Photo Spheres — This is one of those cases where a live demo is valuable. It’s basically a way to navigate specially-taken 360 degree photos (think Google Street View - kinda). Elia Lazzari |
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Agent Hooks: Hooks That Bring Agents Into Your App — You could wire this sort of thing together yourself, but it provides an interesting abstraction. Sun Chuánqí |
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📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript |
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A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them:
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