TMiR 2023-10: React Forget, Canary Releases, Barrel Files, and new releases

Show Notes

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

Creators and Guests

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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