An RFC for useEvent, a New Fundamental React Hook — Billed as a so-far ‘missing piece’ of the hooks system, the proposed useEvent is for defining an event handler that ‘sees’ fresh props/state but has a stable function identity. The motivation and use cases are shown off here and the React team is open to your feedback.

Dan Abramov

What The useEvent Hook Is (and Isn't) — If you want a bit more background to the above, Nick has some initial reactions to the useEvent hook RFC. James Brightman also thinks about it and thinks it’ll eventually “change the way you write modern React.”

Nick Scialli

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A Report from Reactathon — In-person React events remain few and far between as the COVID situation continues to play out around the world, but Reactathon brought a lot of folks together and Swizec reflects on the key themes here.

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The key Attribute and Best Practices for Performant Lists — Is the only reason you’re using the key attribute to satisfy an obscure ESlint rule? If so, the author asserts there are better reasons than that to make it part of your routine.

Nadia Makarevich

A Quick React Component Test — A explanation of a Cypress test to confirm the onClick handler is executing when a button component is clicked, complete with source code.

Gleb Bahmutov

How to Handle URL Redirects When Using a Headless CMS

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The as Prop — A succinct description on its use to combine semantics with aesthetics in a flexible way.

Robin Wieruch

Reagraph: WebGL Graph Visualizations for React — A high-performance network graph visualization library that uses WebGL under the hood for both 2D and 3D rendering options. Here’s a basic sandbox example you can play with.

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Horizon UI: A Beautiful Open Source Admin Template for Chakra UI and React — Includes 70+ dark/light components covering a whole slew of UI possibilities. View a live preview here.

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Scrollex: A Library to Build Beautiful Scroll Experiences with Minimal Code — Definitely not for every project but you can check out some really cool examples of what’s possible on the demo page.

Austin Malerba