No new features, but a lot of changes, paving the way for future releases. The React 17 release is unusual because it doesn’t add any new developer-facing features. Instead, this release is primarily focused on making it easier to upgrade React itself. We’re actively working on the new React features, but they’re not a part […]
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The Opinionated Guide to React
Sara Vieira (@NikkitaFTW) published her book “The Opinionated Guide to React”. It’s 190 pages of React Recipes and Code Examples. This book is my personal map of the tips, power-ups and not-so-obvious solutions to common questions and problems that I’ve come across during 4 years of React development. I have been finding some of the […]
React Refresh Webpack Plugin
If you’re using React Hot Loader, it’s time to start looking at React Refresh Webpack Plugin, an EXPERIMENTAL Webpack plugin to enable “Fast Refresh” (which you might know from React Native) for React components. It’s also to be included with Create React App version 4.0 (now in alpha). Installation per NPM/Yarn: npm install -D @pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin […]
React Spectrum – A collection of libraries and tools that help you build adaptive, accessible, and robust user experiences.
By Adobe: React Spectrum includes three libraries: React Spectrum — A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system. React Aria — A library of React Hooks that provides accessible UI primitives for your design system. React Stately — A library of React Hooks that provides cross-platform state management and core logic for your design system. […]
How Records & Tuples will improve React
Covered here before are Records and Tuples, two Immutable Datastructures most likely coming to JavaScript. Sebastien Lorber takes a look at how these will improve React. A whole category of React bugs are related to unstable object identities: Performance: can trigger re-renders that could be avoided Behavior: can trigger useless effect re-executions, and lead to […]
useQueryParams – A React Hook for managing state in URL query parameters
Once you’ve set up a QueryParamProvider high up your component tree, you can start using useQueryParam to get (and set) querystring parameters import * as React from 'react'; import { useQueryParam, NumberParam, StringParam } from 'use-query-params'; const UseQueryParamExample = () => { // something like: ?x=123&foo=bar in the URL const [num, setNum] = useQueryParam('x', NumberParam); […]
Recoil – An Experimental State Management Library for React
Recoil is the State Management Library for React they use at Facebook. Recoil lets you create a data-flow graph that flows from atoms (shared state) through selectors (pure functions) and down into your React components. Atoms are units of state that components can subscribe to. Selectors transform this state either synchronously or asynchronously Best to […]
Remix – React Framework for Web Apps
The past few weeks I’ve been enjoying the newsletter of Remix, an yet to be released React Framework Remix is a web application framework for React from the authors of React Router: Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence. It provides APIs and conventions for server rendering, data loading, routing and more. You can also read some […]
useWorker() – Use Web Workers with React Hooks
useWorker() is a js library (with typescript support) that allows you to use the Web Worker Web API, through React Hooks. This library allows you to run the expensive function without blocking the user interface, using a simple syntax that makes use of Promise import React from "react"; import { useWorker, WORKER_STATUS } from "@koale/useworker"; […]
Use Tailwind classes within any CSS-in-JS library with Twin
To use Tailwind – or any prebuilt CSS library/framework for that matter – in a React app you can simply import its generated CSS file and use the classes it exposes: import ‘../tailwind.generated.css’; // … const Alert = ({ title = '', message }) => ( <div class="bg-red-100 border border-red-400 text-red-700 px-4 py-3 rounded relative" […]