This Month in React – July 2023

Show Notes

• 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
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• Lightning
   
  • CommonJS is hurting JavaScript / CommonJS is not going away
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  • React Query and React Context
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  • MDX Editor - WYSIWYG React component for Markdown editing
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  • What's Next For Redux with Mark Erikson?
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  • Recipe kits, a great alternative to installable libraries
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  • Prettier 3.0
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  • Solito 4
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• (00:00) - TMiR July
• (01:04) - Dan departing Meta
• (09:12) - Lenz Weber on RSCs
• (16:14) - Yoga v2 beta
• (19:13) - React TypeScript documentation
• (26:02) - How React 18 Improves Application Performance
• (35:01) - TC39 updates, ES2023
• (41:35) - ⚡️ CommonJS Dueling Articles
• (42:28) - ⚡️ React Query: At the top, or inline?
• (43:34) - ⚡️ MDX Editor
• (48:11) - Solito v4, shared abstractions between web and native

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Host

Mark Erikson

An engineer maintaining Redux and Redux Toolkit, working at Replay.io to make smarter AI chat bots and debuggers using time travel.

Producer

Carl Vitullo

Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux, the largest chat community of React professionals.

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