This Week In React 216

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Jan 10, 2025

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The previous edition was last Friday, so this one will be a bit shorter than usual. We’re resuming the usual pace of one newsletter every week after the holidays.

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Composable Caching with Next.js

Explains what Next.js is trying to accomplish, and why ”use cache” is a compiler directive and not a function (to be able to analyze closures and determine the right cache key).

React Core PR - Add <ViewTransition> Component

React is adding support for View transitions with a <ViewTransition /> component that integrates with all the async features like Suspense and startTransition.

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🐦 Recoil (state manager by meta) has been archived
📜 RSC and Server Action Bundle Practice: An Rspack maintainer shared a comprehensive deep dive on how bundlers implement React Server Components in practice, notably webpack and Turbopack.
📜 Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack: They tried to do it with testing-library but ended up using Playwright.
📜 Thoughts on State Management Libraries in the React Compiler Era: The compiler makes React Context much more attractive, are they still useful?
📜 All kinds of state management in React: url state, server state, client state…
📜 React Router 7 Tutorial: A 3-part series covering the introduction, descendent routes and search params.
📜 How React's Render, Effects and Refs work under the hood
📜 Redux Saga Is Hard Until You Look Under The Hood
📦 Bippy - A toolkit to hack into react internals: It’s what react-scan uses under the hood to access the Fiber tree.
📦 Docusaurus 3.7 adds support for React 19 and a new svgr plugin.
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