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This Week In React #109: React Labs, Linaria, React-Aria, Design System, Ladle, Sandpack, Redwood, React-Native, Moon...

Hi everyone!

Another week with lots of content, including 2 official articles on the React and React-Native blogs.

The React ecosystem continues to grow, and my curation workflow is getting better too. Result: I have more and more links to share πŸ˜…

By the way, I'm curious, is being exhaustive a bug or a feature? πŸ˜„ You can answer me by email or on theΒ Twitter poll.

The problem is also that Gmail truncates my newsletter 😬. This is partly because of my Revue provider and its long tracking links. I'm thinking of migrating to ConvertKit soon.

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React

React Labs: What We've Been Working On -- June 2022

React Labs is a new series of articles: the React team wants to share more regularly its progress. Read the whole article: it contains a lot of very interesting information, in particular:

  • Server Components: async/await model, no moreΒ .server.jsΒ extension, Webpack/Vite unification...
  • React Optimizing Compiler (React Forget) rewritten, seems to progress well.
  • the Offscreen API offering new very interesting capabilities (instant transitions ❀️️)

See alsoΒ Dan Abramov comments on Reddit

Airbnb's Trip to Linaria

Airbnb explains how they went from Sass to react-with-styles and then Linaria. It is a no-runtime CSS-in-JS framework with static CSS extraction. They explain their choice, migration strategy, and give a positive feedback on the tool they contribute to.

React Aria - Date and Time Pickers for All

React Aria has just announced the release of Date and Time Picker components and hooks. As you can expect, there is a real focus on accessibility, flexibility and internationalization. We can feel that there is a lot of work behind these components from the Adobe teams.

Notes on maintaining an internal React component library

Gabe works on Walrus, Digital Ocean's internal React design system. He offers a very detailed feedback on the maintenance of a React design system over time. He shares interesting lessons on the human aspect as well as on the design of props, the encapsulation of components or the management of version upgrades.

Capture Phase Event Handling in React

We often use the "bubbling" phase of DOM events, but it is sometimes useful to use the "capture" phase which is not very well known. We can use for exampleΒ onClickCaptureΒ with React.

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TechTree - Introducing This Week in React Bounty Board

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The first major feature on TechTree is Bounties, a tool to help youΒ earn money by referring your friendsΒ to open roles at top VC backed tech startups or find a job that might be right for you!

To help show you around, I have gone ahead and created my very ownΒ Bounty boardΒ -Β a selection of remote, React related roles for you to apply to or refer your network to. There has been over $300k worth of Bounties claimed on TechTree so far!

Looking to hire React developers? You can post Bounties of your own to be featured on my Bounty board! Read more and get startedΒ here.

A Global Virtual Conference for Full-Stack Developers 🌎

Meteor Impact, Meteor's most significant online conference, will beΒ back this year and held by Jan DvoΕ™Γ‘k (akaΒ Storyteller). Meteor SoftwareΒ and Pathable will support the event, amongst other sponsors.

Last year's conference was a significant success, with overΒ 490+Β attendeesΒ andΒ 40 talks, and we're planning to make this year'sΒ event even bigger and better!

Make sure you save these dates:Β October 13thΒ andΒ 14th, 2022.

If you want to stay up to date with information regardingΒ Meteor Impact, you canΒ sign up hereΒ to stay updated with theΒ latest news and updates.


React-Native

Helping migrate React Native libraries to the New Architecture

The React-Native team explains how they will help us adopt the new architecture. There will be documentation, support via the working group, but also GitHub repos with many examples of applications and migration branches. Note that React-Native 0.69 (with React 18) should be available soon: the features of Concurrent React will be available only for users on the new architecture.

@shopify/react-native-performance

Packages created by Shopify to profile the performance of your apps. First-class React-Navigation and FlatList profiling support.

⚠️ Warning: 3 popular packages now have the same name πŸ˜…

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Other

The cost of convenience

An interesting reflection on frontend abstractions and their cost... Proposes an interesting mental model to differentiate a framework from a library (IoC - Hollywood principle - "Don't call us, we'll call you"). All this illustrated with some React examples.

Moon - A build system for the JavaScript ecosystem

Seems to be a new competitor to Nx and Turborepo, this time written in Rust 😏

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