#​245 — June 30, 2021

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React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application — We've featured a variety of "how to structure React apps" pieces in the past, but it remains a perennially interesting topic as there really is no one way. Tania is always fantastic at explaining things though, so we really like this one.

Tania Rascia

▶  How Serverless Functions and Jamstack Can Power Up React Apps — A 40-minute practical screencast-meets-talk where Jason Lengstorf codes a React app and a custom serverless API from scratch including deploying to production on Netlify.

React All-Day

iMessage Clone using Stream Chat and React Native — Stream recently published an open source clone of the iMessage application built using v3 of stream-chat-react-native library. This project demonstrates the implementation of message search, swipeable channel list, message list, reactions etc, similar to that of iMessage.

Stream sponsor

An Overview of React State Management Techniques in 2021 — There are a lot of approaches to state management, so it is sometimes valuable to compare them and see which might be the best for you. This article compares, contrasts and proffers a rating for Apollo’s Local Cache, Recoil and Redux.

Amo Moloko

📅  React Meetup: The State of the React Ecosytem — While we’re still not quite back to full-on live events it seeems, this one has kind of that feel: a line-up of React observers and influencers opining as to where things stand today. It's online on Thursday, July 15.

This Dot, Inc.

SolidJS Official Release: The Long Road to 1.0 — Everyone can agree there’s no shortage of JavaScript frameworks, so what makes the first official release of SolidJS worth a closer look? Claims of “all the flexibility of React and simple mental model of Svelte” caught our attention.

Ryan Carniato

Jobs

Senior Web Developer (Node/ReactJS) - Remote — Millions get inspired and plan adventures with our apps. To help us make komoot.com the place to go to plan outdoor adventures, we’re looking for a one of a kind Web Developer to join our team.
Komoot

Senior Rails/React Dev (10hrs/week) — Perfect gig to fit in around other projects - completely asynch, no standups - $150/hr
MeetEdgar

📘 Tutorials and Stories

Image To Text Conversion With React and Tesseract.js — We like it when a library with a theoretical capability — in this case Tesseract.js’s ability to recognize over 100 languages and turn it into usable text — is shown off and we get to see its practical use in a real world scenario.

Ayobami Ogundiran

Five Epic React Tips To Use Today — A grab bag of ideas which claim to offer cleaner and more reliable code while making “your development experience easier and overall more enjoyable”.

Reed Barger

See Why Developers Spend 34% of Their Time on Internal Apps

Retool sponsor

▶  Building a Realtime Chat App with React, Node.js, and Socket.io — The end result looks a lot like Facebook Messenger. Be warned, though, this is a two hour video :-)

Lama Dev

How to Use Throttle or Debounce With React Hook — Do you have some code you only want to run a given number of times in a given period of time? If so, you want to throttle it. Only want that code to run after a specified delay? Then debounce it.

John Au-Yeung

Read and Render Markdown Files with Next.js and Nx — Part of a series about creating your own blog with Nx, Next.js and Tailwind.

Juri Strumpflohner

Comprehensive Guide: Proper Behaviour Testing in React With Enzyme and Jest
Chak Shun Yu

🛠 Code and Tools

React Transcript Editor: Faster and Easier Audio/Video Transcript Creation — As content creation explodes, the need for tools to make its production more efficient is unprecedented. In this case, creating accurate and timely transcripts. The demo is pretty neat.

BBC

Stepzilla 7.0: A React Multi-Step/Wizard Component — Provide Stepzilla with existing React components and it’ll let you take users through them in a step by step manner, akin to the common ‘wizard’ UI pattern. It’s been around a long time but now with version 7 has finally introduced hooks support.

Mark Paul

Creating a Dashboard? Get Inspiration from This Sleek Demo App — This React dashboard combines a data grid, scheduler, charts & more into one sleek app. Check out the code on GitHub.

Progress KendoReact sponsor

Nanostores: A 152 Byte State Manager for React/Preact/Vue/Svelte with Many Atomic Tree-Shakable Stores
Andrey Sitnik

React Cool Form — The latest in Welly Shen’s Cool series: this time around, he turns his considerable talent on creating and management forms.

Welly Shen

react-native-keyboard-tools — Use KeyboardAwareScrollView to automatically scroll to the focused TextInput and useMaskedTextInput to ensure the correct characters are input.

Andrii Tiertyshnyi

react-native-mmkv-storageTencent’s highly efficient MMKV key-value database framework married to React Native.

Ammar Ahmed

Photonix: Roll Your Own ML-Enabled Photo Server — Implement a pretty decent photo management server on your own hardware. You’ll even get object and color recognition, location awareness and other features enabled by ML. Try the live demo.

Photonix

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