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This Week In React #109: React Labs, Linaria, React-Aria, Design System, Ladle, Sandpack, Redwood, React-Native, Moon...

Sébastien Lorber
Jun 22, 2022
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React Labs: What We've Been Working On – June 2022

React Labs is a new series of articles: the React team wants to share more regularly its progress. Read the whole article: it contains a lot of very interesting information, in particular:

  • Server Components: async/await model, no more .server.js extension, Webpack/Vite unification...

  • React Optimizing Compiler (React Forget) rewritten, seems to progress well.

  • the Offscreen API offering new very interesting capabilities (instant transitions ❤️️)

See also Dan Abramov comments on Reddit

Airbnb’s Trip to Linaria

Airbnb explains how they went from Sass to react-with-styles and then Linaria. It is a no-runtime CSS-in-JS framework with static CSS extraction. They explain their choice, migration strategy, and give a positive feedback on the tool they contribute to.

React Aria - Date and Time Pickers for All

React Aria has just announced the release of Date and Time Picker components and hooks. As you can expect, there is a real focus on accessibility, flexibility and internationalization. We can feel that there is a lot of work behind these components from the Adobe teams.

Notes on maintaining an internal React component library

Gabe works on Walrus, Digital Ocean's internal React design system. He offers a very detailed feedback on the maintenance of a React design system over time. He shares interesting lessons on the human aspect as well as on the design of props, the encapsulation of components or the management of version upgrades.

Capture Phase Event Handling in React

We often use the "bubbling" phase of DOM events, but it is sometimes useful to use the "capture" phase which is not very well known. We can use for example onClickCapture with React.

Extras:

  • 📜 5 Big Takeaways from Remix Conf

  • 📜 What is XState used for?

  • 📜 The Case for Use.GPU

  • 📜 Why Use useReducer?

  • 📜 React Element vs Component

  • 📜 Inversion of Control and JSX Injection via Context API

  • 📖 You Might Not Need an Effect: new doc page in beta

  • 📦 Sandpack 1.0: React components to build interactive code playground, from CodeSandbox. New design, theming, SSR support, React 18, file explorer...

  • 📦 Ladle 1.0: Storybook alternative based on Vite, built for Uber. Can now customize Vite config + addons for accessibility and accessing story source.

  • 📦 uipkg: new plugin to export Figma designs to React.

  • 📦 Remix-routers: adapt Remix router to other frameworks (for now only Vue)

  • 📦 React-Teleporter 3.0: React 18 support

  • 📦 SWR 2.0 Beta 4: resource preloading API

  • 📦 React-cmdk: A command palette for React

  • 📦 Redwood 2.0: 3 months after v1.0? Don't panic! It's just a few breaking changes, Redwood respects semantic versioning.

  • 📦 React 18.2: SSR bugfixes

  • 📦 Vitext: Next.js alternative based on Vite?

  • 🐦 React-Three-Fiber + Html embed

  • 👥 React-conferences

  • 🧵 React Summit Sketches

💸 Sponsors

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TechTree - Introducing This Week in React Bounty Board

TechTree is building the first social-economic platform for developers - a place to help you unlock the real value of your knowledge and network!

The first major feature on TechTree is Bounties, a tool to help you earn money by referring your friends to open roles at top VC backed tech startups or find a job that might be right for you!

To help show you around, I have gone ahead and created my very own Bounty board - a selection of remote, React related roles for you to apply to or refer your network to. There has been over $300k worth of Bounties claimed on TechTree so far!

Looking to hire React developers? You can post Bounties of your own to be featured on my Bounty board! Read more and get started here.

A Global Virtual Conference for Full-Stack Developers 🌎

Meteor Impact, Meteor’s most significant online conference, will be back this year and held by Jan Dvořák (aka Storyteller). Meteor Software and Pathable will support the event, amongst other sponsors.

Last year’s conference was a significant success, with over 490+ attendees and 40 talks, and we’re planning to make this year’s event even bigger and better!

Make sure you save these dates: October 13th and 14th, 2022.

If you want to stay up to date with information regarding Meteor Impact, you can sign up here to stay updated with the latest news and updates.

React-Native

Helping migrate React Native libraries to the New Architecture

The React-Native team explains how they will help us adopt the new architecture. There will be documentation, support via the working group, but also GitHub repos with many examples of applications and migration branches. Note that React-Native 0.69 (with React 18) should be available soon: the features of Concurrent React will be available only for users on the new architecture.

@shopify/react-native-performance

Packages created by Shopify to profile the performance of your apps. First-class React-Navigation and FlatList profiling support.

⚠️ Warning: 3 popular packages now have the same name 😅

Extras:

  • 📜 Writing fastlane scripts in Javascript

  • 🧵 Metro + web: Metro web usage is increasing: Airbnb, Stripe, Expo...

  • 📦 React-Native-Owl 1.0: visual regression testing lib for React-Native reaching v1 milestone

  • 📦 React-Native-Performance Config Plugin (not the same 😅)

  • 📦 Siri Shortcuts Config Plugin

  • 📦 React-Native-Firebase v15

  • 🎙️ RNR 239 - Shrink your app with ProGuard

  • 🎙️ The React Native Show Coffee Talk #3 - Open Source

  • 🎙️ The React Native Show #13 - Migration to React Native

Partners

  • Start React Native: learn everything about gestures and animations with William Candillon

  • Adventures in Nodeland: Matteo writes about his journey as a Node.js TSC member and maintainer of 500+ modules on npm, including Fastify and Pino!

  • TypeScript Weekly: the best TypeScript links every week, right in your inbox

  • Tailwind Weekly: all things Tailwind CSS, new issue every Saturday

  • G2i: pre-vetted remote React & React-Native developers you can trust on contract or full-time basis

  • Infinite Red: US React-Native experts making your idea a reality

  • Software Mansion: the co-creators of React Native and the technological core of many tech companies

Other

The cost of convenience

An interesting reflection on frontend abstractions and their cost... Proposes an interesting mental model to differentiate a framework from a library (IoC - Hollywood principle - "Don't call us, we'll call you"). All this illustrated with some React examples.

Moon - A build system for the JavaScript ecosystem

Seems to be a new competitor to Nx and Turborepo, this time written in Rust 😏

Extras:

  • TypeScript 4.8 Beta

  • Why You Might Prefer Map Over Object In JavaScript

  • Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability

  • CSS - Complex vs Compound Selectors

  • Socket for GitHub 1.0

  • State of Open Source Security 2022

  • CSS - Backdrop Filter finally in Firefox 103

  • V8 - Discontinuing release blog posts

  • Bringing forward the End-of-Life Date for Node.js 16

  • CSS - New syntax for range media queries in Chrome 104

  • Software Engineering - The Soft Parts

  • Lerna 5.1

  • Boa v0.15

  • zx 7.0

  • Tauri 1.0

  • Deno 1.23

  • Deno raises $21M

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🧁 Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish
I heard some JavaScript developers saying that hydration is pure overhead, so I decided to stop drinking water.
8:49 PM ∙ Jan 18, 2023
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