This Month in React

By Reactiflux with Mark Erikson, Carl Vitullo, & Mo Khazali

How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in the React sphere. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recording... more

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This Month in React episodes:

October 30, 2023TMiR 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
...more
53min
September 30, 2023This 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
...more
1h
September 01, 2023This 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
...more
52min
July 31, 2023This 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
...more
50min
July 17, 2023 Office Hours – States of Burnout with Jenny Truong
Jenny Truong is head of operations and developer relations at Stately, and recently gave a talk titled “The Unexpected States of Burnout” at React Miami, which you can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcN8grYAEuQ.
It’s easy to accidentally transition from being productive to burning out. We tend to think in the moment in life - I’m happy, I’m excited, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm burnt out. We sometimes fail to think about the transitions between the states — how did I become tired, burnt out, and how do I transition to a better state?
Drawing on Jenny’s experience working at a highly-productive startup, join us as Carl Vitullo talks with her about how burnout can manifest, how it can impact our lives in unexpected ways, and how we can manage the energy we give work to thrive without burning out.
https://twitter.com/jen_ayy_
⁠https://twitter.com/vcarl_
...more
51min
June 30, 2023This Month in React – June 2023
Links discussed:
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

React Native 0.72 - Symlink Support, Better Errors, and more

Remix - Dev Server v2 is now stable

Next.js App Router Update (dev server, docs, etc)

Is React Having An Angular.js Moment?

Branding and community needs, Sebastien Markbage thread

React API?

PR for a new “TS Usage” page in the React docs

React Handbook

Reactiflux Learning page

React Handbook

Replay for Test Suites

RTK 2.0 beta

React-Redux 8.1: new warnings for unstable selectors

React-Redux 9.0 alpha PR

Vercel - Introducing Skew Protection

Chrome for Testing: reliable downloads for browser automation

Vitest 1.0 Roadmap

React Jam

Panda CSS

Shadcn UI update - June 2023

React Native 0.72 and Expo SDK 49 running on visionOS

Docusaurus v3 alpha - MDX 2 + React 18

AI.JSX - AI Application Framework for Javascript
...more
51min
June 09, 2023This Month in React – May 2023
Join ⁠⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community!
[00:01:04] Next 13.4, App Router and Server Actions

Next 13.4

Server Actions

Isomorphic Development

Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge

RSC data leak security footgun

[00:14:20] William Candillon – The Joy of Painting with Skia | App.js Conf 2023

[00:17:42] My Struggle With Remix

[00:21:53] You Might Not Need React Query

Using Apollo Client with Next.js 13

[00:28:25] Write Once, Route Everywhere: File System-based Navigation for Native Apps

[00:32:07] Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming

[00:33:50] React Canaries: Enabling Incremental Feature Rollout Outside Meta

[00:45:56] Client-side rendering of HTML and interactivity

[00:46:22] React Summit

Debugging JavaScript

[00:46:48] Debugging should be easier | App.js Conf 2023

[00:47:23] React from Another Dimension by Dan Abramov at RemixConf 2023

[00:48:14] Server-side rendering React in OCaml

[00:49:17] Several links on React rendering

The Interactive Guide to Rendering in React

The Journey of the React Component

React reconciliation: how it works and why should we care

A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior

[00:50:36] TV Spatial Navigation
...more
54min
June 06, 2023Office Hours – Professional Communication with Elizabeth Woolf
Developing software requires a lot of communication with other developers, with other teams and divisions, with managers or less experienced developers. Carl Vitullo is joined by Elizabeth Woolf to talk about feedback, team conflicts, salary negotiation, and more.
Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of tech and communication for years, getting her start in 2016 helping professors and students prepare talks and presentations. She’s just launched a new coaching business, Woolf Communication, in January after seeing a gap between what was expected of engineers in the workplace and what training is made available to them.
Links mentioned:
⁠https://softskills.audio/

⁠⁠https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Timestamps:
[00:00:45] “Soft skills”

[00:04:08] Fear of feedback

[00:06:47] Deciding whether to give feedback

[00:08:21] Trusting your gut

[00:09:29] Building feedback into team culture

[00:10:43] Giving upward feedback

[00:13:20] Communication as personal improvement

[00:14:53] Importance of listening

[00:17:43] Separating tone and content

[00:23:51] Negotiations

[00:29:03] Information gathering

[00:30:25] Different dimensions of value to negotiate

[00:34:02] Information asymmetry in negotiating

[00:36:17] Finding and knowing your worth

[00:37:52] Value of a genuine mentor figure

[00:38:51] Finding a mentor

[00:40:03] Asking good questions to a mentor

[00:42:29] Mentors and genuine networking

[00:45:27] Networking effectively

[00:46:57] The power of showing up consistently

[00:50:02] Learning to trust your gut

[00:51:02] Looking backwards to find what gives you joy

[00:56:19] What if your no could have taught you more than yes?

[00:59:32] Handling being underleveled when hired

[01:01:49] What if your manager under-leveled you?
...more
1h 8min
May 10, 2023This Month in React – April 2023
Join ⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community!
00:40 ⁠⁠⁠React Visualized, react.gg⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Launch tweet⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠The Story of React, uidotdev⁠⁠⁠

03:49 ⁠⁠⁠Immer v10⁠⁠⁠

08:41 ⁠⁠⁠NextJS 13.3⁠⁠⁠

15:09 ⁠⁠⁠New React documentation translation⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Rich Harris talk⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Notes on talk⁠⁠⁠

18:00 ⁠⁠⁠TypeScript 5.1⁠⁠⁠

21:08 ⁠⁠⁠MillionJS, one-function React perf wins⁠⁠⁠

23:51 React Server Components

⁠⁠⁠RSC Quiz thread⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠XHP v JSX⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Lenz RFC for Apollo/RSC⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Asynccontext stage 2⁠⁠⁠

30:06 ⁠⁠⁠Recommending uncontrolled components⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠API Reference⁠⁠⁠

35:33 ⁠⁠⁠Super Apps in React Native⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠RN PS5⁠⁠⁠

40:03 ⚡️ Core team layoffs

⁠⁠⁠Mengdi Chen⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Robert Balicki⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Matt Carroll⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠Sean Keegan⁠⁠⁠

40:47 ⚡️ React Miami

41:21 ⁠⁠⁠⚡️ react-three offscreen⁠⁠⁠

42:04 ⁠⁠⁠⚡️ Lingui v4.0⁠⁠⁠

43:14 ⁠⁠⁠⚡️ Redux Toolkit 2.0 alpha⁠⁠⁠

45:13 ⁠⁠⁠⚡️ Netlify framework popularity⁠⁠⁠

47:09 ⁠⁠⁠⚡️ PartyKit⁠⁠⁠
...more
49min
April 12, 2023Community Spotlight – React Miami with Michelle Bakels
Michelle Bakels is co-organizer of React Miami and Program Director of Developer Health at G2i, a hiring platform for Javascript and React developers with deep ties to Reactiflux! We talked about the upcoming conference, how speakers are selected, and how developer health was core to the conference. Learn more at https://www.reactmiami.com, and if you buy a ticket, use our discount code REACTIFLUX10.
https://twitter.com/ReactMiamiConf
https://twitter.com/MichelleBakels
https://www.reactmiami.com/schedule
https://www.instagram.com/ReactMiamiConf/
Topics:
[00:01:33] Developer health, and planning a conference

[00:03:01] Tejas Kumar, React as a developer health tool

[00:03:26] Jenny Truong, unexpected states of burnout

[00:03:55] Andrew Shew, mental tooling from professional baseball

[00:05:09] Early bird outdoor activities

[00:05:54] Who is the target audience for React Miami?

[00:07:44] Speakers Michelle is excited for

[00:10:55] Michelle's philosophy for organizing a conference

[00:15:56] Putting on a conference in 2023

[00:22:27] Choosing topics for the conference

[00:26:51] Reaching out to first-time speakers

[00:30:32] Tips for wanna-be speakers?

[00:36:37] Will talks be recorded? (yes)

[00:37:12] Documentary screening, afterparty, beautiful venue

[00:39:52] Where can people learn more?
...more
41min

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