#306 — September 21, 2022 |
🎵 About the subject line.. yes, I know. 😆 – Ed. |
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'React I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down' — An opinionated React thought piece that’s provoked much discussion this week. The author gets creative by checkpointing the progress (or lack thereof) of React over the years in ‘mix tape’ style with code and memes sprinkled in for good measure. (Hacker News went deep on this item and spawned some interesting sub-threads covering topics like whether there are any 'greener JS pastures' or not.) François Zaninotto opinion |
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▶ Next.js 12.3 Features Walkthrough and Demo — Vercel’s VP of Developer Experience walks through the changes in the latest version of Next.js which we squeezed in to last week’s issue. If you don’t like video, you can read more about the release on Vercel’s blog. Lee Robinson (Vercel) |
Getting Started With TypeScript and React — In this post, we’ll look at a few advantages of using TypeScript with React. Then, we’ll set up a React-TypeScript project and go through some of the fundamentals. Check it out. Progress KendoReact sponsor |
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Storing State in the URL with John Reilly |
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Deploying a WASM-Powered React App on Vercel — Keen to get your feet wet with WebAssembly? This brief guide, on a topic not often covered, shows some initial steps. Mukkund Sunjii |
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How To Debug React Apps with VS Code — The basics of getting a debugging workflow set up for your React work with VS Code.
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Adding React Components to an Astro 1.0 Project — Astro lets you choose what type of framework components you’d like to use . This post shows how to use React components.
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React Memoization Guide with Examples — The first in a series digging into a popular (and often first) optimization technique.
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What’s New in Gatsby in 2022?
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🛠 Code and Tools |
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TinyBase 2.0: A Library for Structuring App State — If you want a bit more database-esque structure around the management of state in your apps, this is worth a look. The demos are notable for how well explained they are so do check those out. GitHub repo. James Pearce |
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Mantine 5.4: A Full Featured React Component Library — We don’t want to feature every release Mantine has, but they’re making so much progress and doing such great work lately that they deserve the attention right now. v5.4 adds Mantine Team |
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Monitoring Your React Native Application New Relic sponsor |
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Theatre.js 0.5: Hackable Motion Design for the Web — Can be used both programmatically and visually to animate 3D objects created with things like Three.js, React Three Fiber, HTML/SVG, or even to ‘animate’ variable values. v0.5 introduces 3D scene editing and complex keyframing. Docs and GitHub repo. Theatre.js Project |
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Linkify 4.0: Link Up URLs, Email Addresses, and More in Plain Text — Given some plain text containing things like links and emails, Linkify will generate the correct code to display it on the Web. Not just URLs or emails, but hashtag, @mentions, IP addresses, and more – see the homepage for examples. GitHub repo. Hypercontext |
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