This Month in React
This Month in React
Reactiflux, with Mark Erikson and Carl Vitullo
How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in React's development and ecosystem, the web dev labor market, upcoming conferences, and open source releases. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recordings on the last Wednesday of every month in the Reactiflux stage. Hosted by friends and veterans of the community, Mark Erikson and Carl Vitullo. They've been driving forces in the Reactiflux Discord since 2015. Mark brings his many years maintaining Redux, and Carl his experience at a half-dozen startups.
TMiR 2024-04: So many new releases, React 19 featureset
New releasesReact 18.3React 19 betaNode.js v22Expo SDK 51 betaReact Native 0.74.0 React DevTools 5.1Next v14.2Bun v1.1 (discussion later)Pnpm v9Biome 1.7 Supabase goes GA after 4 years in betaDocusaurus 3.2Gulp v5Pragmatic Drag and DropRedwoodJS 7.3React on Rails v14Upcoming conferencesReact Conf 2024 May 15 - 16, 2024. In-person in Henderson, NV, USAApp.js Conf 2024 May 22 - 24, 2024. In-person in Kraków, PolandLocal First Conf 2024 May 30, 2024. In person in Berlin, Germany. Followup hackathon on the 31stRender ATL June 12-14, 2024. Atlanta, GA, USAFuture Frontend June 13-14, 2024. Helsinki, FinlandReact Norway June 14, 2024. Larvik, NorwayReact Summit June 14 + 18, 2024. Amsterdam, Netherlands (+remote)Main ContentNew React developmentReact Blog - React 19 BetaReact Blog - React 19 Beta Upgrade GuideReact 18.3 changelogInternal changes:Rename SECRET INTERNALS to __CLIENT_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_WARN_USERS_THEY_CANNOT_UPGRADEFast JSX: Don't clone props objectRemove defaultProps support (except for classes)Ship optimized-but-unminified prod bundles and drop sourcemapsDon’t patch fetch anymoreFuture: patching Date object?React Native 0.74.0 releaseReact Native Navigation v7VisionCamera v4.0KotekanJSRFirst Impressions, Second LookFirst Things I Learned about JSRBun v1.1⚡️ Lightning round ⚡️⚡️ Why I like React (Even in 2024) ⚡️️⚡️ Netlify: Introducing the new Next.js Runtime ⚡️️⚡️ Design Principles behind the Next.js App Router ⚡️️⚡️ Diving into the Node.js Website Redesign ⚡️️⚡️ How does useOptimistic work internally? (and many other code dives) ⚡️️⚡️ Node.js: The Documentary ⚡️️⚡️ New Flow Language Features for React ⚡️️⚡️ Vercel cuts prices a lil ⚡️️⚡️ Redwood Blog: Techniques for Fetching Data: Comparing Next, Remix, and Redwood ⚡️️⚡️ Kuto, “reverse JS bundler” ⚡️️
May 7, 2024
54 min
TMiR 2024-03: React canary is 19, New ShadCN bits, Astro looks like Wordpress. Wiz??
Layoffs.fyiNew releasesReact Native 0.74.0? SoonNew Architecture docs pageTS 5.4“This is how most dependency injection in React apps should be done” says Sebastian MarkbågeUpcoming in 5.5: automatic predicate inference from filter functions, and smaller install sizeRemix 2.8Mantine v7.7.0Rsbuild 0.5Gleam version 1ShadCN March 2024 updateAstro 4.5Astro DB, Astro DB Deep DiveReact 19 and React CompilerFeature flags PR - “Canary now represents React 19”React 19 won’t include CompilerReact Compiler & React 19 - forget about memoization soon?“Compiler Theory and Reactivity” and “Type System”Its-finesebmck and drcmda GitHub exchange"react-strict-dom", why it's so great?RSCsConceptual Model of React and RSC Ondrej VelisekWhy React Server Components Are Breaking Builds to Win Tomorrow Vishwas GopinathWaku has released a “pages router”Lee Robinson’s List of projects experimenting with RSCs , including Redwood (which just released an RSC beta)Embracing the Future and Moving Back Again: From Server Actions to tRPCWebkit features in Safari 17.4Mental Health in Open SourceAngular codebase is being merged with WizAnnounced at NGConf 2024Designing Very Large Javascript ApplicationsMalte Ube discussed in 2018⚡Lightning round ⚡Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a Core Web VitalWhat is INP and why you should careRsbuild 1.0 release planReact Router and Remix to be merged?Declarative Shadow DOM available in all major browsersReact Native community mapNode.js 2023 Year in An ArticleOpen-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0Vercel adds support for Remix+ViteNavigating the future of frontend
Apr 2, 2024
52 min
TMiR 2024-02: React 19 (but more details), Apple tries to kill PWAs
Quick hitsLayoffs.fyi, Trueup.io job trendsNew releasesreact-email v2Tamagui 1.88Expressive CodeRelay 16.2Remix 2.7 (and 2.6!) discussing laterIsograph 0.1.0Upcoming conferencesReact Paris 2024 March 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, France + Remote (hybrid)Epic Web Conf 2024 April 10 - 11, 2024. In-person in Park City, UT, USAReact Miami 2024 April 19 - 20, 2024. In-person in Miami, FL, USAReact Connection 2024 April 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, FranceReact Native Connection 2024 April 23, 2024. In-person in Paris, FranceReact LabsBrad Westfall: React Will Be Compiledyou’ll likely never need these APIs again:Good writeup from React TrainingReact 19: RSCs, Suspense, and Server ActionsInitial PR for Parcel support in RSCs?Instant Search Params with React Server ComponentsIs Suspense Worth the Squeeze?Avoid Using React’s useFormStatusreact-strict-domAnnouncement thread from kelsetBuilds on “react dom for native” proposal“Spiritual successor to react-native-web but from the opposite direction”Compatibility chartNo PWAs on iOS in EUAction link, if you have an app affected (Update, partially rolled back)MDN PWA Manifest docsGary Bernhardt’s Birth and Death of Javascript talkNextA Next.js App Router Migration: The Good, Bad, and UglyWhat We’ve Learned from the transition to Next 14 and Server ComponentsRemix2.6, 2.7 changelogOpen sourced remix.runGood first issuesReact NativeState of React Native by Software Mansion“React Native Frameworks”RN on Apple Vision Pro⚡ Lightning round ⚡Bun shellDeno in 2023Survey results and 2024 roadmapJSRHot Module Replacement is Easy (he lies)pmdrs WebGL layout engine UI for react-three-fiber, full repo100th TC39 meeting updates
Mar 3, 2024
51 min
TMiR 2024-01: React 19?? The year ahead; Why are people so miffed?
Quick hitsLayoffs.fyi ConferencesReact Paris March 22nd, Paris, FR Epic Web April 11th, Park City, UT React Miami April 19-20th, Miami, FL React Connection / RN Connection April 22nd, Paris, FR React Conf 2024 May 15-16 Henderson, NV New releasesReact Aria generally available New shadcn/ui components Eslint v9 alpha 0 jQuery 4.0?? date-fns v3 ReScript v11 React Libraries for 2024 Rising Stars for JS, React ecosystem 2024 bytes.dev predictions React 19 and upcoming featuresContext Selectors! Discussion and a summary from Colin Campbell Proper Web Component support planned for React 19 Web Components 2024 feature updates Rick Hanlon: some upcoming client features I'm excited about New client-side hooks coming in React 19 React Forget updates Framework updatesRemix working on “SPA mode” Likely stabilize as Vite plugin does Remix also working on RSC support, and will have differences from Next’s approach. Next.js 14.1 “Annoyed at React” roundupKind of annoyed at React React, where are you going? Mark’s reply Ryan Florence on Twitter Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases React is getting a bit of a kicking lately RSCsRSCs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Leerob reacts The Two Reacts RSC is React Server + Component “RSC does not require a server” – Dan React Server Components paradigm ⚡ Lightning round ⚡Ryan Carniatto, JS Frameworks heading into 2024 RSBuild guide to migrating from CRA React Native styling tool benchmarks Weird things engineers believe about Web development Homebrew creator launching Tea.xyz, an OSS funding project NPM registry prank leaves developers unable to unpublish packages CodePen top 10 V8 performance improvements
Feb 3, 2024
59 min
TMiR 2023-12: RSC accelerates, RTK v2, better React docs, XState v5
This Month in React – December 2023 Quick hits: React Native 0.73 New debugging docs New Debugger, give feedback here Bridgeless mode Redux Toolkit 2.0, Redux 5.0, and React-Redux 9.0 XState v5 React Server Components updates React Panel: Frontend Should Embrace React Server Components RSCs from scratch video from Ben Holmes Storybook for React Server Components Dan’s “Chain Reaction” post New RSC-first framework, Waku Introducing StyleX React docs and general discussion The React team posted a list of some recent core docs pages updates Dan Abramov React AMA on BlueSky Lightning round: An HTTP Status Code to Report Requester Impairment More Than You Need to Know About ReactDOM.flushSync | JulesBlom.com React fights you can have with your team Building React Framework Gatsby TanStack Router v1 Discussion: what do we think will happen with React and the ecosystem in 2024?
Dec 29, 2023
53 min
TMiR 2023-11: Redux Toolkit 2.0, Kent v Lee, Prettier bounty
This Month in React – November 2023 Quick hits: TS 5.3 Remix vs Next Kent – Leeerob Next 14 summary Next Conf playlist React Server components, without a framework? Code – Demo Remix 2.2.0 Hydrogen (Shopify headless ecommerce) supports Remix v2 Redux Toolkit 2.0 is almost here! Hopefully shipping by this weekend :) Migration page ⚡️ lightning ⚡️ CSS features roundup (bytes.dev) Why you want React Query 10 years of JS Decorators REACT SOURCEMAPS FINALLY MERGED WOOHOO! Prettier bounty claimed by Biome – Full report Self-plug: doing a livestream with Filip Hric tomorrow Fun news if we have time: Angular updated to v17, new docs site Docusaurus 3.0 Google-created React components for Google Maps Win95-inspired component library
Dec 1, 2023
48 min
TMiR 2023-10: React Forget, Canary Releases, Barrel Files, and new releases
This Month in React – October 2023 Mark: React Forget and memoization: Sathya, React India: Statically analysing React components for fun and profit Joe and Mofei, React Advanced: Understanding Idiomatic React TkDodo: The Uphill Battle of Memoization Response: React memo is good actually Carl: Server Actions in canary Version policy Client Actions Mark: TanStack Query v5 RTK 2.0: we’re deferring all RTKQ changes until after 2.0! Carl: Barrel Files Vercel - How we optimized package imports in Next.js Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - The barrel file debacle Mark: React useTransition: performance game changer or...? Lightning round ⚡️ Carl: Photoshop is now on the web! Mark: Yarn 4.0 HN Carl: HTTP QUERY verb Mark: TC39-TG4 - New Task Group created to standardize Source Maps Actual working group: https://github.com/tc39/source-map-rfc Example: a proposal for tracking scopes data from my Replay coworker Holger Benl: https://github.com/tc39/source-map-rfc/pull/53/files My own React Sourcemaps package: https://github.com/markerikson/react-prod-sourcemaps Carl: Astro 3.2 - View Transitions improvements 7x perf improvement to Parcel bundling Neat SIMD/Rust function Mark: My React Advanced talk: Building Better React DeTools with Replay Time Travel
Oct 30, 2023
52 min
This Month in React – September 2023
Remix v2, Docusaurus v3, Node 20.6, Bun 1.0. So much news this month! Node 20.6 - Built-in .env file support Node.js 16 End-of-Life Remix v2 pre-release Upgrade guide SemVer philosophy Docusaurus v3 beta Upgrading frontend dependencies with confidence Astro 3.0 Making Sense of React Server Components Bun 1.0 My Thoughts on Bun Announcing Biome Next.js App Router - Forms and Mutations docs Expo Router RFC - API Routes ⚡️ React-Native running natively on Apple Vision Pro simulator demo Are Big Projects Ditching TypeScript? Rust Server Components Web Developers, CSS-in-JS is Ruining Your Product Dan Abramov joins Bluesky
Sep 30, 2023
59 min
This Month in React – August 2023
Is Gatsby Dead? https://thenewstack.io/is-jamstack-toast-some-developers-say-yes-netlify-says-no/ https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/ Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React RSC Devtools RSC Devtools - Chrome Extension Devtools for React Server Components My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM Remix Dev Tools v2.0 - New settings tab Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Expo Expo Preview - Fully customizable builds on EAS Build Expo Proof of concept - expo-sqlite integration with CR-SQLite Expo Proof of concept - Expo CLI Dev Tools Plugins Feature Preview: Single Sign-On (SSO) Feature Preview: Rollouts for EAS Update useUpdates() API for expo-updates Expo Orbit: Download and launch buildsComponents ⚡Lightning⚡ React prod sourcemaps PR to React React.dev - Using TypeScript RTK 2.0 beta, and React-Redux 9.0 alpha The underlying mechanisms of React’s concurrent mode React Jam - Summer 2023 Winners
Sep 1, 2023
51 min
This Month in React – July 2023
Dan announced he’s leaving Meta My take on the current React & Server Components controversy Yoga v2.0.0-beta.2 How React 18 Improves Application Performance Updates from the 97th TC39 meeting Web Apps Lightning CommonJS is hurting JavaScript / CommonJS is not going away React Query and React Context MDX Editor - WYSIWYG React component for Markdown editing What's Next For Redux with Mark Erikson? Recipe kits, a great alternative to installable libraries Prettier 3.0 Solito 4
Jul 31, 2023
49 min
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