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Recent Archives

Issue November 24, 2020

Google Chrome Update Gets Serious: Homeland Security (CISA) Confirms Attacks Underway by Davey Winder
How the useEffect Hook Works (with Examples) by Dave Ceddia
React Libraries in 2020 by Robin Wieruch
React interview questions to expect in 2021 (with answers) by Alex Booker
What’s the Difference Between Synthetic React Events and JavaScript Events? by Jennifer Fu
useEffect vs useLayoutEffect by . Dodds
Jotai, now with Optics by Kyler Krenek
Mock APIs: Different Techniques for React and Angular by Shashikala Parakramasinghe
Building a movie search app in React by Roberta Akoto
The React and React Native Event System Explained: A Harmonious Coexistence by Nicolas Couvrat

Issue November 10, 2020

The Secret of Simple Code – How 10x Developers Produce 10x Value by Eric Elliott
TypeScript Conf 2020 Recordings now on YouTube by TSConf
Use CSS Variables instead of React Context by Kent C. Dodds
React Gets Svelte Flavoured Drag and Drop (or Svelte Actions via React Hooks) by Isaac Hagoel
Announcing TypeScript 4.1 RC by Daniel Rosenwasser
Building an Ecommerce Operational Dashboard in React by Leigh Halliday
Using D3.js v6 with React by John Au-Yeung
Svelte for Sites, React for Apps by SWYX
Jotai (not exactly Redux) Dev Tools by Skip Krenek

Issue October 27, 2020

React v17.0 is out! by Rachel Nabors
Cross-platform Mobile Development
Summit – Nov 13th by Mike Labriola
Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Get Along by Dan Fabulich
Webpack 5 release by Tobias Koppers
Presenting v7.0.0 of the npm CLI by Myles Borins
The Five Questions Every Unit Test Must Answer—An Interview with Eric Elliott by Dan Wilson
Introducing the npm public roadmap and a new feedback process by Myles Borins
Writing JavaScript tools in other languages – a new trend? by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
Remix Run Preview – Beta Launch October 28th by Ryan Florence

Issue October 13, 2020

New React Docs (@rachelnabors)
Security Scanning now available at GitHub (@jhutchings0)
How State Machines Saved our Bacon (@_jonesian/)
Taking Full Advantage Of Parameterized Routes In React-Router (@cjpillsbury)
GitHub Mobile and GraphQL (@_ironham)
Gatsby vs. Next.js (@jaredpalmer)
An Honest Review of Gatsby (@zeeg)

Issue September 29, 2020

The N props syndrome (@mfrachet)
Introducing the New JSX Transform (@lunaruan)
Introducing visx – Data Visualization Stackfrom Airbnb (@ccardwilliams)
How The Hermes JavaScript Engine Makes React Native Apps Faster And Leaner (@danwilson)
Best React meetup videos in August, 2020 (@MeetupFeedio)
An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically (@k80bowman)
Blogged Answers: React Components, Reusability, and Abstraction (@acemarke)
My State Management Mistake (@kentcdodds)
V8 release v8.6 is out (@RReverser)

Issue September 15, 2020

What React Does (and Doesn’t Do) (@dceddia/)
AVIF has landed – New image format for the web (@jaffathecake)
Examples of large production-grade, open-source React apps (@rozenmd)
Temporal – Date & Time in JavaScript today! (@romulocintra)
Video: Why React Hooks? (@tylermcginnis)
Introducing Modular Underscore (@juliangonggrijp)
4 New Exciting Features Coming in ECMAScript 2021 (@deleteman123)
Simple error handling in React with react-error-boundary (@faruqyusuffG)
Records And Tuples Usage In React (@sebastienlorber)

Issue September 1, 2020

What React 17 Means for Developers (@tjvantoll)
Announcing TypeScript 4.0 (@drosenwasser)
React Application Concurrency, Main Thread Scheduling, And The React Scheduling API (@danwilson)
Accessibility In Chrome DevTools (@umaar)
Getting Started with Adobe’s React Spectrum (@nsebhastian)
Refactoring a Redux app to use Recoil (@ohansemmanuel)
Build A Confirmation Modal in React with State Machines (@dceddia)
Video: How To Save React State On Page Refresh (@rahsheen)

Issue August 18, 2020

useState lazy initialization and function updates (@kentcdodds)
A Look at What’s New in Chrome DevTools in 2020 (@umaar)
Introducing Rome (@sebmck)
Sharing Code Between React Web and React Native Applications (@reginald3)
Understanding the importance of the key prop in React (https://github.com/francodalessio)
React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features (@rachelnabors)
React95 is out. And it’s 🔥 (@artur_bien)
A Bit about Event Delegation in React (@aka_CyberLight)
Storybook 6.0 – Production-grade component development (@mshilman)
Ajv JSON Schema validator: Mozilla MOSS grant and OpenJS Foundation (@epoberezkin)

Issue August 4, 2020

Use ternaries rather than && in JSX (@kentcdodds)
Make Your React Apps Installable – How To Make Any React App a PWA (@aniruddh_codes)
Exploring Render Props Vs. React Hooks In 2020 (@moubi)
Master the JavaScript Interview: What is a Closure? (@_ericelliott)
What’s Deno, and how is it different from Node.js? (@maciejcieslar)
Modern React testing, part 1: best practices (@iamsapegin)
What is Recoil exactly? (@askharleyio)

Issue July 21, 2020

Observables, Reactive Programming, and Regret (@benlesh)
Introducing React Spectrum (@devongovett)
React At Scale, Monorepos, And How Etsy Gets It Done (@DanWilson)
Demystifying React Hooks: useReducer (@milu_franz)
React-Redux Flow: Detailed Guide (@MichgoldenU)
9 Examples of building your own version of React (@iain_freestone)
Use the React Profiler for Performance (@Obinnaspeaks)

Issue July 7, 2020

Visualize React State And Component Hierarchy In React Apps With Realize (@DanWilson)
Simply React – Kent C. Dodds (Byteconf React 2020 Keynote) (@kentcdodds)
egghead Talks: 2 sessions on React Native (@eggheadio)
FITC Spotlight UX Online Event – July 9th (@fitc)
Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language. (@quicktypeio)
XState – JavaScript and TypeScript finite state machines and statecharts for the modern web (@DavidKPiano)
The App Sandbox (@charlie_hess)

Issue June 23, 2020

How to Publish React Components (Bit Src Blog)
Custom React Prop Type Validation (@jaebradley)
Case study: Analyzing Notion app performance (@iamakulov)
A deep dive into React Context API (@adebiyial)
Adobe Flash will finally die on December 31, 2020 (@RyanWhitwam)
How to use React memo (@rwieruch)
Visualizing React state flow and component hierarchy (@hmitrea)

Issue June 9, 2020

Xbox app for PC swaps Electron for React Native UWP (@mattjbrown)
A Visual Guide To React Mental Models, Part 2 (@obedparla)
Got 8 minutes? Make sure you know these 14 array methods (Clean Code Studio)
Should I useState or useReducer? (@kentcdodds)
Babel 7.10.0 released (@NicoloRibaudo)
Best free resources to learn React in 2020 (@areknawo)
The Ultimate Guide to React Native Optimization Ebook (@grabbou)

Issue May 26, 2020

The hidden magic of Main Thread Scheduling (@matan_bobi)
A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior (@acemarke)
Announcing React Native for macOS and more (@KikiSaintonge)
A comprehensive guide to video playback in React (@jamiemaison)
How React Components Make UI Testing Easy (@Swizec)
8 Key Factors When Deciding Between Building In-House and Buying a UI Component Library (@nora_init)
Make your own DevTools (@kentcdodds)
Dispatch This: Using Apollo Client 3 as a State Management Solution (@stemmlerjs)

Issue May 12, 2020

Common mistakes with React Testing Library – Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds)
A Visual Guide To React Mental Models – Obed Parlapiano (@obedparla)
Flipper: React Native App Debugging – Zain Sajjad (@zsajjad93)
Accessibility for React Developers – Neha Sharma (@hellonehha)
When does React re – render components? – Felix Gerschau (@4xfelix)
GitHub gets a built – in IDE with Codespaces, discussion forums and more – Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl)
Build React Native apps for Microsoft Surface Duo – Craig Dunn (@conceptdev)

Issue April 28, 2020

Demystifying Building Native Modules for React Native – Kamile Matulenaite (@kamile_mat)
Understanding (all) JavaScript module formats and tools – Dixin Yan
Node.js version 14 available now – Michael Dawson and Bethany Griggs (@nodejs)
Video: Custom Hooks in React: The Ultimate UI Abstraction Layer – Tanner Linsley (@tannerlinsley)
Another one – line npm package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem – Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi)
Laws of User Experience – Jon Yablonski (@JonYablonski)
Developing in a Monorepo While Still Using Webpack – Salem Hilal (@technoheads)

Issue April 14, 2020

React Folder Structure in 5 Steps – Robin Wieruch (@rwieruch)
Junior to Senior – Refactoring a dynamic multi-input component – Johannes Kettmann (@j_kettmann)
React Native 0.62 with Flipper -Rick Hanlon (@rickhanlonii)
What’s new in ECMAScript 2020 – Pawel Grzybek (@pawelgrzybek)
Redux in Worker: Off-main-thread Redux Reducers and Middleware – Daishi Kato (@dai_shi)
ReactJS clone – Creating DOM elements – Cazaciuc Gabriel (@jstweetster)
A Static Future – The magic of compile-time workflows – Josh Comeau (@JoshWComeau)

Issue March 31, 2020

Learn React Hooks in 5 minutes – Per Borgen (@perborgen)
The 10 Most Common Mistakes JavaScript Developers Make – Sandra Larson (for FlatLogic)
Why we chose TypeScript for the Hasura Console – Aleksandra
React Hooks with Firebase Firestore – Brian De Sousa (@briandesousa1)
React Suspense in Practice – Adam Rackis (@AdamRackis)
Inside Fiber: an in-depth overview of the new reconciliation algorithm in React – Max Koretskyi (@maxim_koretskyi)

Issue March 13, 2020

Fix the slow render before you fix the re-render – Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds)
Writing Resilient Components – Dan Abramov (@dan_abramov)
Podcast: React Stack with Tejas Kumar – Software Engineering Daily (@software_daily)
The complete guide to publishing a React package to npm – Ovie Okeh (@ovieokeh)
You May Not Need Controlled Form Components – Shawn Wang Yue Xian (@swyx)
ICYMI: React v16.13.0 – ReactJS clone – Creating DOM elements – Sunil Pai (@threepointone)