---
title: "This week's React news, issue 5"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 5
published_at: "2016-09-23"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/5"
---

react status 5   

This week's React news -[Read this on the Web](http://react.statuscode.com/issues/5) 

[react status](http://react.statuscode.com) Issue 5     

[You Might Not Need Redux](https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be46360cf367?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — The creator of Redux notes that _“people often choose Redux before they need it”_ and asks you to think carefully about how you structure your app first. Dan Abramov [An Introduction to React Router v4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vur2dAFZ4GE&utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — A thorough 40 minute introduction to the latest React Router which is taking a [radically different declarative approach](https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/v4/README.md#v4-faq) to earlier versions. Michael Jackson and Ryan Florencevideo [Rekit: A Toolkit for Generating React Web Apps](https://github.com/supnate/rekit/?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — Build webapps with React, Redux and React-router and focus on the logic rather than the tooling. Here’s [a full introduction and tutorial.](https://medium.com/@nate_wang/using-rekit-to-quickly-create-a-react-app-108bcc07e7f) Nate Wangtools [Redux Patterns and Anti-Patterns](https://tech.affirm.com/redux-patterns-and-anti-patterns-7d80ef3d53bc?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) Chet Corcos [Building a Game with Three.js, React and WebGL](https://www.sitepoint.com/building-a-game-reactjs-and-webgl/?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — A look at how to build 3D games declaratively using Three.js, React and WebGL. Andrew Rey [Building Real-Time React Apps with Redux and Meteor](https://blog.backlogapp.io/building-real-time-react-applications-with-redux-and-meteor-de29042eb460?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — How Backlog used Meteor to make their React application real-time. Philipp Sporrer [What the Flux? An Overview of the React State Management Ecosystem](http://thenewstack.io/flux-overview-react-state-management-ecosystem/?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — _“Not only has JavaScript emerged as a viable backend programming language, but it continues to evolve; some would say it has been evolving too fast.”_ Charlie Crawford [React Plus X: Best Practices for Reusable UI Components](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy7gFgETp0o&utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) Netflix JavaScript Talksvideo [React Routify: A Routing Library for React Applications](http://rwhitmire.com/react-routify/?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) Ryan Whitmirecode [react-native-easy-grid: Easy React Native Layouts and Grids](https://github.com/GeekyAnts/react-native-easy-grid?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) GeekyAntsnative [Shoutem Open Source UI Toolkit for React Native](https://shoutem.github.io/ui/?utm_source=reactnl&utm_medium=email) — A new UI toolkit for React Native including customizable components, themes and animations. Shoutem UInative    [Read this issue on the Web](http://react.statuscode.com/issues/5) [See our archives](http://react.statuscode.com/issues) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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