#417 — February 12, 2025 |
🏖️ We're taking next week off, so the next issue will be on Wednesday, February 26. Feel free to hit reply and send in any submissions! |
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The State of React 2024 Survey Results — There’s too much to go into depth here, so enjoy having a browse through insights gleaned from almost 8,000 responses. We get to learn that Devographics |
Complete Intro to React v9: New Project, Modern Stack — Join Brian Holt in building a pizza delivery app from scratch. Master hooks, TanStack Router, testing, and React 19 features in this comprehensive guide to modern React development. No prior React experience needed. Frontend Masters sponsor |
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How to Start a React Project in 2025 — While there are many ways to start a React project, Robin examines the pros and cons of a few popular approaches. (You may have seen this before, but it’s been updated for 2015.) Robin Wieruch |
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Why I Rebuilt ProseMirror’s Renderer in React — A former engineer for the New York Times unpacks years of work on integrating React with ProseMirror, a toolkit for building rich text editors which notoriously does not ‘play nicely’ with React. A great look into the details of the challenges involved. Shane Friedman |
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Build a Next.js Sign-Up Form with React Hook Form — Features progressive enhancement, dynamic validation, and secure password handling with Argon2. Clerk sponsor |
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📄 We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly – You might not want to do this, but it’s interesting to read about someone else’s experiences. Alex Suraci (The Dagger Blog) 📄 Which Rich Text Editor Framework Should You Choose in 2025? – A round-up of actively developed WYSIWYG editor options. Dexemple and Rowny (Liveblocks) 📄 Designing Backgrounds with LLMs and React – This is neat. Ben Shumaker 📄 The Single Responsibility Principle in React: The Art of Component Focus Christian Ekrem |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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React D3 Tree: Interactive Tree Graph Component — Handy for things like family trees or org charts. There are a few practical examples on display here. Uses D3 for rendering. GitHub repo. Ben Kremer |
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The React Data Table I Always Wanted — A look into a particularly fast and clean shadcn/ui-based data table component (GitHub repo). You can see a live demo here. Maximilian Kaske |
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Quicky: An Easy Way to Self-Host Next.js & Node.js Apps — A CLI tool that simplifies deployment and management of Next.js and Node projects. Quicky |
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📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript |
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A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them:
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