React Round Up

In this week’s episode of React Round Up the panel works their way through a blog post outlining best practices for React. The first is “keeping components small and function-specific”. The panel discusses the pros of using this best practice and how it relates to the single responsibility principle. This best practice also helps with the next, “reusability is important”.The panel considers this second best practice and points out some of its flaws. It recommends avoiding the creation of new components. The panel explains that by avoiding creating new components it saves time but can also cause problems as you adapt components to fit more projects. 

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Links

• https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ 
• Practical React Hooks: How to refactor your app to use Hooks 
• 12 React Best Practices You Need to Follow in 2020 
• https://github.com/nadeesha/saul 
• https://www.facebook.com/React-Round-Up
• https://twitter.com/reactroundup

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• Charles - White Christmas 
• Charles - Holiday Inn 
• Charles - The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job 
• Christopher - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-eslint 
• Christopher - https://www.playingwithfire.co/ 
• Thomas - test && commit || revert

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Front-end developer Maksim Ivanov talks about working for Mojang, the company behind the ridiculously popular game Minecraft. As it turns out, Maksim uses React to build different pieces of the game, and runs the code through a custom renderer to make it work in the game world. In addition to his day job, he also found time to write a book about TypeScript after realizing how much easier getting familiar with new code bases could be if TypeScript was used instead of JavaScript. The panel has used TypeScript to varying degrees themselves, but nobody's gone all in, and they talk about the pros and cons of it, including the initial learning curve and how it can help prevent bugs in the code. Maksim's book covers many aspects of TypeScript in great detail, and it sounds like a good read for anyone just picking up the language.
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Links

• Custom Renderer
• react-game-engine - npm
• react-unity-webgl - npm
• gettext
• newline
• @tjfuller • Instagram
• React Hook Form
• Cheatsheets for experienced React developers getting started with TypeScript
• The RSpec Book
• TypeStrong

Picks

• Maksim - Follow Maksim on Youtube
• Maksim -Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• Charles - Iron druid chronicles
• Charles - Percy Jackson
• Paige - The Name of the Wind
• TJ - OmniDiskSweeper, OmniWeb, and OmniPresence - The Omni Group
• TJ - https://rtmccormick.com/2018/01/10/clear-node-modules-folders-recursively-mac-linux/

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Today we talk with Fred Schott, the co-creator of Astro, a web framework focused on improving performance. Built around island architecture, it leverages HTML over javascript where it’s an option. Astro is a great option for those who focus on content, marketing, or personal blogs, and it is a great option to use with React. In this episode, we talk about when it makes sense to use Astro, and how to implement it.
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Links

• astro.new 
• Astro | Build faster websites
• Astro Lounge
• Twitter: @FredKSchott
• Twitter: @astrodotbuild

Picks

• Fred- Over the Garden Wall
• Jack- Pizza: The Ultimate Cookbook Featuring More Than 300 Recipes (Italian Cooking, Neapolitan Pizzas, Gifts for Foodies, Cookbook, History of Pizza)
• TJ- The Vergecast Podcast

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In today's episode, we talk about state management, dependency injection, react hooks, API access best practices and more with Tommy Groshong a React UI architect.
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Links

• React Context for Dependency Injection Not State Management
• Reduce State Management Footprint with React Query
• Reduce State Management Footprint with React Query
• Test Double
• TommyGroshong.com
• LinkedIn: Thomas Groshong 
• Twitter: Tommy Groshong ( @tgroshon ) 

Picks

• Jack- Deno Deploy
• Paige- Ted Lasso
• Paige- GitHub | foambubble/foam
• TJ- Land of the Giants
• Tommy- The Courier
• Tommy- The Anarchist Handbook

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Software Engineer Andrey Goncharov joins the React Round Up crew to discuss how his company Hazelcast has approached visualizing hundreds of data points on potentially hundreds of computers in a way that makes sense to users. Dust off your math skills - it gets a little technical along the way as they discuss graphs, charts, performance optimizations, and bottlenecks, and even handling accessibility of these data-intensive graphs. If you ever have to debug system failures and anomalies, this will be a worthwhile episode to check out.
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Links

• Hazelcast | The Leading In-Memory Computing Platform
•  Chart.js | Open Source HTML5 Charts for your Website

Picks

• Andrey- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Paige-  Netflix Series | The Queen’s Gambit
• TJ- City of Stairs: A Novel (The Divine Cities) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Special Guest: Andrey Goncharov.

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Tania Rascia joins the round up to discuss how to organize your code across files, directories, components, and repos within your React app. The panel chimes in with what they've seen and clarify how these approaches effect the overall application functionality of your app.
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Links

• React Architecture: How to Structure and Organize a React Application | Tania Rascia
• Backends for Frontends pattern - Cloud Design Patterns | Microsoft Docs
• Chakra UI
• Front End Tables: Sorting, Filtering, and Pagination | Tania Rascia

Picks

• Jack- react-location - npm
• Paige - Newline.co
• Paige- Fullstack React with Typescript course
• Tania - Netlify
• TJ - Edge Impulse

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Software engineer Pierre Hedkvist joins the React Round Up panelists to share some spicy (controversial) coding decisions he's made and then written about. The first hot topic is using React state to store filter setting in query parameters with the help of a custom Hook, and the second is migrating an app to rely more heavily on React Query instead of Redux.
If you've been considering doing something similar, give this episode a listen to hear Pierre's strategies and advice for anyone looking to get started.
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Links

• Storing State in the URL with React
• Migrating from Redux to React Query
• Pierre Hedkvist
• Twitter: @PierreHedkvist

Picks

• Paige - ChrisFix | Youtube Channel
• Pierre - YJS
• Pierre - LiveBlocks
• TJ - Magic Puzzles

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Collin Pfeifer, writer, software engineer, and student at Indiana University joins the React Round Up panel to discuss the intricacies and pitfalls in Create React App, the roadmap of being a self-taught developer, and how the computer education system has changed over the years.
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Links

• Why Create React App is Outdated in 2022
• Collin Pfeifer
• Twitter: @pfeifer_collin

Picks

• Collin - GitHub student developer pack
• Collin - Thrifting mystery packs
• Jack - Rubik's Cube
• TJ - Lensa AI: photo & video editor 4+ - App Store

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Jack, Paige, and TJ join this week's panelist episode to talk about Figma. Figma is a web-based design tool. Jack takes the lead as he talks about its new exciting features, how this tool benefits the designers, what sets it apart from competing design tools, and many more!
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Links

• Figma: The Collaborative Interface Design Tool

Picks

• Jack - Monkeytype | A minimalistic, customizable typing test
• Paige - Ted Lasso (TV Series 2020–2023)
• TJ - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Peter Osah is a Fullstack Software Engineer, Technical Writer, and a Biochemist & Bioinformatics Enthusiast. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Bootstrap your next Preact application with Bun". He begins by giving the listeners an introduction to Bun and its advantages. 
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Links

• Bootstrap your next Preact application with Bun

Socials

• LinkedIn: Peter Osah

Picks

• Jack - Spider Grills - The Original Spider-22
• Paige - GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
• TJ - The Vergecast

 

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