This Month in React

TMiR 2024-05: Updates from React Conf


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Quick hits
  • 9600 laid off from 36 companies
  • New releases
    • Docusaurus 3.3
    • Mantine 7.9.0
    • Astro 4.8
    • Redwood 7.5
  • Upcoming conferences
    • Render ATL June 12-14, 2024. Atlanta, GA, USA
    • Future Frontend June 13-14, 2024. Helsinki, Finland
    • React Norway June 14, 2024. Larvik, Norway
    • React Summit June 14 + 18, 2024. Amsterdam, Netherlands (+remote)
    • React Nexus July 4-5, 2024. Bangalore, India
    • Chain React 2024 July 17-19, 2024. In person in Portland, OR, USA
    • The Geek Conf July 25, 2024. Berlin, Germany
Main Content
  • React Conf recap
    • Livestream recording (165k views 🤯)
    • Seth Webster's mentioned thread
    • React 19 RC
    • Talks:
      • What’s new in React 19 by Lydia Hallie
      • React Unpacked: A Roadmap to React 19 by Sam Selikoff
      • React Server Components Demo by Expo Team
      • React for Two Computers by Dan Abramov
      • React Q&A hosted by Michael Chan
      • React Native Q&A hosted by Jamon Holmgren
    • React Compiler
      • Compiler playground
      • Lauren Tan’s walkthrough of using the compiler and seeing the output, and Sathya + Mofei’s deep dive into how the compiler works
      • Jack Herrington’s compiler walkthrough
      • Recommended for library authors to ship compiled artifacts
      • A talk from Lauren Tan in 2016 that’s spiritually related to React Compiler
    • Merging Remix and React Router
  • Effect
    • Great 10 min intro
    • Production-Grade Typescript talk at an event they hosted
  • The Forensics Of React Server Components
  • Next 15 RC (tweet)
    • Unrelated: Vercel raised $250m
    • It’s not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use
  • React Native:
    • “New Architecture” is now in beta
    • “useFrameworks” - Meta announcing that you should use Expo by default.
    • React Native Skia updates
    • React Native IDE:
    • Amazon doing a keynote talk on using React Native for TV and other devices.
⚡Lightning round ⚡
  • Speculation Rules API in Chrome
  • Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue
  • BlueSky Engineering Culture, from The Pragmatic Engineer
  • Why Patching Globals is Harmful
  • Webkit features in Safari 17.5
  • Why React Query? (and upcoming React Query course)
  • We can have a different web
  • Athena Crisis is now open source
  • Security Risks of Postman
  • Angular v18 is now available!
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This Month in ReactBy Reactiflux with Mark Erikson, Carl Vitullo, & Mo Khazali