---
title: "⚛️ #57: Lessons From Migrating A Large Codebase to React 16"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 57
published_at: "2017-10-06"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/57"
---

react status 57   

This week's React news -[Read this on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/57) 

[react status](https://react.statuscode.com) Issue 57     

[Lessons From Migrating A Large Codebase to React 16](https://blog.discordapp.com/lessons-from-migrating-a-large-codebase-to-react-16-e60e49102aa6) — React 16 was released last week and we included tons of related links in [last week’s issue](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/56). Here, Discord shares their experiences in upgrading to it. Discord Blog [Why There's No 100% Correct Way to Structure A React App](https://hackernoon.com/the-100-correct-way-to-structure-a-react-app-or-why-theres-no-such-thing-3ede534ef1ed) — How one dev structures his React apps, but why there’s no universally ‘ideal’ approach. David Gilbertson [Build Better React Apps Faster with Kendo UI for React](https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=reactstatusweekly&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-trial-react) — Kendo UI continues to invest in new development to meet our customer’s changing needs, and we are now proud to announce support for the React JavaScript framework with our Kendo UI JavaScript wrappers for the React framework. Kendo UIsponsored [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/46990bf3.png)](https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=reactstatusweekly&utm_campaign=kendo-ui-trial-react) [Using Preact as a React Alternative](https://www.sitepoint.com/using-preact-react-alternative/) — Ahmed Bouchefra takes a look at Preact, a lightweight version of React with a growing community that’s well suited to high-performance apps and slow 2G networks. Ahmed Bouchefra [Walmart Labs Open Sources Its Tool for Bringing React Native to Existing Mobile Apps](https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/29/walmart-labs-open-sources-its-tool-for-bringing-react-native-to-existing-mobile-apps/) Frederic Lardinoisnews [Announcing Assert(js) – An all JavaScript Testing Conference](https://www.assertjs.com/) OK GROW!news sponsored [ReactiveConf - October 25 to 27 in Bratislava, Slovakia](https://reactiveconf.com/) vacuumlabsnews [8 Key React Component Decisions](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/8-key-react-component-decisions-cc965db11594) — Standardize your React development with these key decisions. Cory House ['I’m Breaking up with Higher Order Components'](https://medium.com/tandemly/im-breaking-up-with-higher-order-components-44b0df2db052) — Why one developer is preferring to write declarative, readable and flexible React components using render props instead of HOCs. David Atchley [Redux: Architecting and Scaling A New Web App at The NY Times](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3IcjFg9Wk) — How the NYT scaled a React app to serve more than a million users per month by leaning on Redux. Juan Carlos Montemayor Elosuavideo [React Slingshot: A Starter Kit for Rapid React App Development](https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot/) — React + Redux starter kit with Babel, hot reloading, testing, linting and a working example app. Cory Housetools [React-Static: A Progressive Static-Site Framework for React](https://medium.com/@tannerlinsley/%EF%B8%8F-introducing-react-static-a-progressive-static-site-framework-for-react-3470d2a51ebc) Tanner Linsleytools [Create Beautiful, Dynamic React Apps with a Single Component Library - Try ExtReact for Free Today](https://www.sencha.com/products/extreact/evaluate/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=tpe&utm_campaign=extreact&utm_content=q3fy18-single-component-library) Sencha, Inc.​ tools sponsored [react-date-picker: Date Input Component](https://github.com/wojtekmaj/react-date-picker) — Updated to work with React 16. Wojciech Majcode    [Read this issue on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/57) [See our archives](https://react.statuscode.com/issues) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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