This Month in React

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

Show Notes

  • (00:00) - TMiR 2024-01 Looking ahead at 2024; why so annoyed?
  • (00:32) - Reviewing layoffs
  • (03:06) - Conferences
  • (03:58) - Library releases
  • (08:08) - React Libraries for 2024 by Robin Wieruch
  • (09:54) - Rising Stars on GitHub
  • (10:56) - Bytes.dev 2024 Predictions
  • (12:29) - Speculating on React 19
  • (19:01) - Upcoming client features in React
  • (22:34) - Remix SPA mode
  • (24:53) - Next 14.1
  • (27:56) - Annoyed at React roundup
  • (37:55) - RSC updates
  • (47:40) - ⚡Ryan Carniato, JS Frameworks into 2024
  • (48:15) - ⚡ RSPack
  • (50:10) - ⚡ Benchmarking React Native styling
  • (50:40) - ⚡ Weird things engineers believe about Web development
  • (51:59) - ⚡ Tea.xyz
  • (55:44) - ⚡ `everything` on npm
  • (57:00) - ⚡ CodePen top 10
  • (57:37) - ⚡ V8 performance improvements
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What is This Month in React?

How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in React's development and ecosystem, upcoming conferences, and open source releases. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recordings on the last Wednesday of every month in the Reactiflux stage.

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