This Month in React Reactiflux, with Mark Erikson and Carl Vitullo

Layoffs.fyiNew releasesReact Native 0.74.0? SoonNew Architecture docs pageTS 5.4“This is how most dependency injection in React apps should be done” says Sebastian MarkbågeUpcoming in 5.5: automatic predicate inference from filter functions, and smaller install sizeRemix 2.8Mantine v7.7.0Rsbuild 0.5Gleam version 1ShadCN March 2024 updateAstro 4.5Astro DB, Astro DB Deep DiveReact 19 and React CompilerFeature flags PR - “Canary now represents React 19”React 19 won’t include CompilerReact Compiler & React 19 - forget about memoization soon?“Compiler Theory and Reactivity” and “Type System”Its-finesebmck and drcmda GitHub exchange"react-strict-dom", why it's so great?RSCsConceptual Model of React and RSC Ondrej VelisekWhy React Server Components Are Breaking Builds to Win Tomorrow Vishwas GopinathWaku has released a “pages router”Lee Robinson’s List of projects experimenting with RSCs , including Redwood (which just released an RSC beta)Embracing the Future and Moving Back Again: From Server Actions to tRPCWebkit features in Safari 17.4Mental Health in Open SourceAngular codebase is being merged with WizAnnounced at NGConf 2024Designing Very Large Javascript ApplicationsMalte Ube discussed in 2018⚡Lightning round ⚡Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a Core Web VitalWhat is INP and why you should careRsbuild 1.0 release planReact Router and Remix to be merged?Declarative Shadow DOM available in all major browsersReact Native community mapNode.js 2023 Year in An ArticleOpen-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0Vercel adds support for Remix+ViteNavigating the future of frontend

Quick hitsLayoffs.fyi, Trueup.io job trendsNew releasesreact-email v2Tamagui 1.88Expressive CodeRelay 16.2Remix 2.7 (and 2.6!) discussing laterIsograph 0.1.0Upcoming conferencesReact Paris 2024 March 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, France + Remote (hybrid)Epic Web Conf 2024 April 10 - 11, 2024. In-person in Park City, UT, USAReact Miami 2024 April 19 - 20, 2024. In-person in Miami, FL, USAReact Connection 2024 April 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, FranceReact Native Connection 2024 April 23, 2024. In-person in Paris, FranceReact LabsBrad Westfall: React Will Be Compiledyou’ll likely never need these APIs again:Good writeup from React TrainingReact 19: RSCs, Suspense, and Server ActionsInitial PR for Parcel support in RSCs?Instant Search Params with React Server ComponentsIs Suspense Worth the Squeeze?Avoid Using React’s useFormStatusreact-strict-domAnnouncement thread from kelsetBuilds on “react dom for native” proposal“Spiritual successor to react-native-web but from the opposite direction”Compatibility chartNo PWAs on iOS in EUAction link, if you have an app affected (Update, partially rolled back)MDN PWA Manifest docsGary Bernhardt’s Birth and Death of Javascript talkNextA Next.js App Router Migration: The Good, Bad, and UglyWhat We’ve Learned from the transition to Next 14 and Server ComponentsRemix2.6, 2.7 changelogOpen sourced remix.runGood first issuesReact NativeState of React Native by Software Mansion“React Native Frameworks”RN on Apple Vision Pro⚡ Lightning round ⚡Bun shellDeno in 2023Survey results and 2024 roadmapJSRHot Module Replacement is Easy (he lies)pmdrs WebGL layout engine UI for react-three-fiber, full repo100th TC39 meeting updates

Quick hitsLayoffs.fyi
ConferencesReact Paris March 22nd, Paris, FR
Epic Web April 11th, Park City, UT
React Miami April 19-20th, Miami, FL
React Connection / RN Connection April 22nd, Paris, FR
React Conf 2024 May 15-16 Henderson, NV

New releasesReact Aria generally available
New shadcn/ui components
Eslint v9 alpha 0
jQuery 4.0??
date-fns v3
ReScript v11


React Libraries for 2024
Rising Stars for JS, React ecosystem
2024 bytes.dev predictions
React 19 and upcoming featuresContext Selectors! Discussion and a summary from Colin Campbell
Proper Web Component support planned for React 19
Web Components 2024 feature updates
Rick Hanlon: some upcoming client features I'm excited about
New client-side hooks coming in React 19
React Forget updates

Framework updatesRemix working on “SPA mode”
Likely stabilize as Vite plugin does
Remix also working on RSC support, and will have differences from Next’s approach.
Next.js 14.1

“Annoyed at React” roundupKind of annoyed at React
React, where are you going?
Mark’s reply
Ryan Florence on Twitter
Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases
React is getting a bit of a kicking lately

RSCsRSCs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Leerob reacts
The Two Reacts
RSC is React Server + Component
“RSC does not require a server” – Dan
React Server Components paradigm

⚡ Lightning round ⚡Ryan Carniatto, JS Frameworks heading into 2024
RSBuild guide to migrating from CRA
React Native styling tool benchmarks
Weird things engineers believe about Web development
Homebrew creator launching Tea.xyz, an OSS funding project
NPM registry prank leaves developers unable to unpublish packages
CodePen top 10
V8 performance improvements

This Month in React – December 2023


Quick hits:

React Native 0.73
New debugging docs
New Debugger, give feedback here
Bridgeless mode


Redux Toolkit 2.0, Redux 5.0, and React-Redux 9.0
XState v5
React Server Components updates

React Panel: Frontend Should Embrace React Server Components
RSCs from scratch video from Ben Holmes
Storybook for React Server Components
Dan’s “Chain Reaction” post
New RSC-first framework, Waku


Introducing StyleX
React docs and general discussion

The React team posted a list of some recent core docs pages updates
Dan Abramov React AMA on BlueSky


Lightning round:

An HTTP Status Code to Report Requester Impairment
More Than You Need to Know About ReactDOM.flushSync | JulesBlom.com
React fights you can have with your team
Building React Framework Gatsby
TanStack Router v1


Discussion: what do we think will happen with React and the ecosystem in 2024?

This Month in React – November 2023


Quick hits:
TS 5.3
Remix vs Next

Kent – Leeerob


Next 14 summary
Next Conf playlist


React Server components, without a framework?
Code –
Demo


Remix 2.2.0
Hydrogen (Shopify headless ecommerce) supports Remix v2
Redux Toolkit 2.0 is almost here! Hopefully shipping by this weekend :)
Migration page


⚡️ lightning ⚡️

CSS features roundup (bytes.dev)
Why you want React Query
10 years of JS Decorators
REACT SOURCEMAPS FINALLY MERGED WOOHOO!
Prettier bounty
claimed by Biome – Full report


Self-plug: doing a livestream with Filip Hric tomorrow


Fun news if we have time:

Angular updated to v17, new docs site
Docusaurus 3.0
Google-created React components for Google Maps
Win95-inspired component library

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