This Month in React – Details, episodes & analysis

• React 19 progress:
  • Initial “Suspense sibling pre-rendering” implementation work
  • DevTools support for Server Components and Viewing Source of Server Components
• React Native 0.75 released
• How To Create An NPM Package | Total TypeScript
  • Blogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM
• Implementing React from scratch
  • Didact - build your own React
  • Getting Closure on React Hooks
• Configure retention periods for deployments – Vercel
• Waku 0.21 includes React Server Actions support
  • React Beyond the Render
• Redux Essentials tutorial updated
• Announcing TypeScript 5.6 RC
  • Iterator Helpers
• Using React DOM in Expo native apps
• NitroModules
  • Comparing to ObjC Turbomodules, it is significantly faster
• JSR and Deno: Final Review 🚮 – David Bushell
  • What Deno Got Wrong About HTTP Imports
  • The Deno Package Paradox – David Bushell
• 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

• Cocoapods going into maintenance mode
• web-infra-dev/rslib: The library build tool powered by Rsbuild.
• Accident Forgiveness · The Fly Blog
• spatial compute
• How Airbnb Smoothly Upgrades React
• Use useId() Instead Of Hand-Making IDs
• Common Sense Refactoring of a Messy React Component
• Introducing Structured Outputs in the API | OpenAI
• Sentry is now Fair Source
  • Fair Source Definition

• Job market
  • FRED data
  • Layoffs.fyi
• New releases
  • Material UI v6 is out now 🎉 - MUI
  • Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
  • Nx 19.5 is here! Stackblitz, Bun, Incremental Builds for Vite, Gradle Test Atomizer
• Conferences
  • React Universe 2024 Wrocław, Poland Sept 5-6
  • JSConf Chile Santiago, Chile Sept 5-7
  • UtahJS Conf Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. Sept 13
  • React Alicante September 19-21
  • JSConf Ireland Dublin, Ireland & Online Sept 25-26
  • SquiggleConf Boston, MA USA Oct 3-4
  • RenderCon Nairobi, Kenya Oct 4-5
  • React India Goa, India Oct 17-19, 2024
  • React Brussels Brussels, Belgium Oct 18
  • React Advanced London London, UK Oct 25, 28

• Quick hits
  • Job market
    • FRED data
    • Layoffs.fyi
  • New releases
    • Vitest 2.0
      • Future plans
    • Remix 2.10
    • Jotai 2.9
    • Storybook 8.2
    • RN Reanimated at 3.14
    • HTMX 2.0
    • Mako is Now Open Source
  • Conferences (React, Javascript)
    • React Rally Salt Lake City, UT, USA August 12-13
    • React Universe 2024 Wrocław, Poland September 5-6
    • JSConf Chile Santiago, Chile September 5-7
    • UtahJS Conf Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. September 13
    • React Alicante September 19-21
    • JSConf Ireland Dublin, Ireland September 25-26
• Main Content
  • Survey results:
    • State of HTML 2023
    • State of React 2023
    • State of JS 2023
      • 2023 State of JavaScript Survey Highlights: Vite Dominates, TypeScript Adoption Soars
      • Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%
• ⚡Lightning round ⚡
  • Company migrations:
    • NYT just updated to React 18
    • Slack converted from Enzyme to RTL with some AI assistance
  • RN news
    • Rise Tools Launched
      • Mo Khazali – Server-Driven Mobile Apps With React Native
    • NativeWindUI launched
      • Gluestack is going in a similar direction with v2
    • Swift Package Manager Support for React Native
    • Using React Native MacOS with Expo
    • React Native Filament
    • Guide to React Native for Web React devs
    • How to build Windows apps for React Native with a Mac
  • e18e (Ecosystem Performance) - A new community initiative | e18e
  • ES2024
    • Tweet from Rob Palmer
  • Sneaky React Memory Leaks: How the React compiler won’t save you
    • Garbage collection and closures
  • How to publish a JavaScript package in 2024
  • React Native + Flutter
  • Bun’s Q3 roadmap (not exhaustive)
  • Learn Suspense by Building a Suspense-Enabled Library
  • Why Use Redux Today?
  • Chrome gives Google properties privileged information about your system resources
  • Component, colocation, composition: A note on the state of React | bobae kang
  • Secret Knowledge to Self-Host Next.js
  • Node news:
    • TS stripping
    • SQLite support
    • Removing experimental corepack tool for version managers?

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

Remix v2, Docusaurus v3, Node 20.6, Bun 1.0. So much news this month!

• Node 20.6 - Built-in .env file support
• Node.js 16 End-of-Life
• Remix v2 pre-release
• Upgrade guide
• SemVer philosophy
• Docusaurus v3 beta
• Upgrading frontend dependencies with confidence
• Astro 3.0
• Making Sense of React Server Components
• Bun 1.0
• My Thoughts on Bun
• Announcing Biome
• Next.js App Router - Forms and Mutations docs
• Expo Router RFC - API Routes
• ⚡️
• React-Native running natively on Apple Vision Pro simulator demo
• Are Big Projects Ditching TypeScript?
• Rust Server Components
• Web Developers, CSS-in-JS is Ruining Your Product
• Dan Abramov joins Bluesky

• Is Gatsby Dead?
• https://thenewstack.io/is-jamstack-toast-some-developers-say-yes-netlify-says-no/

• https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/

• Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
• RSC Devtools

• RSC Devtools - Chrome Extension
• Devtools for React Server Components
• My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM
• Remix Dev Tools v2.0 - New settings tab
• Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server
• Expo

• Expo Preview - Fully customizable builds on EAS Build
• Expo Proof of concept - expo-sqlite integration with CR-SQLite
• Expo Proof of concept - Expo CLI Dev Tools Plugins
• Feature Preview: Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Feature Preview: Rollouts for EAS Update
• useUpdates() API for expo-updates
• Expo Orbit: Download and launch buildsComponents
• ⚡Lightning⚡

• React prod sourcemaps
• PR to React
• React.dev - Using TypeScript
• RTK 2.0 beta, and React-Redux 9.0 alpha

• The underlying mechanisms of React’s concurrent mode
• React Jam - Summer 2023 Winners

• 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
• Lightning
• CommonJS is hurting JavaScript / CommonJS is not going away
• React Query and React Context
• MDX Editor - WYSIWYG React component for Markdown editing
• What's Next For Redux with Mark Erikson?
• Recipe kits, a great alternative to installable libraries
• Prettier 3.0
• Solito 4

Jenny Truong is head of operations and developer relations at Stately, and recently gave a talk titled “The Unexpected States of Burnout” at React Miami, which you can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcN8grYAEuQ. 

It’s easy to accidentally transition from being productive to burning out. We tend to think in the moment in life - I’m happy, I’m excited, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm burnt out. We sometimes fail to think about the transitions between the states — how did I become tired, burnt out, and how do I transition to a better state? 

Drawing on Jenny’s experience working at a highly-productive startup, join us as Carl Vitullo talks with her about how burnout can manifest, how it can impact our lives in unexpected ways, and how we can manage the energy we give work to thrive without burning out.

https://twitter.com/jen_ayy_

⁠https://twitter.com/vcarl_

• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
• React Native 0.72 - Symlink Support, Better Errors, and more
• Remix - Dev Server v2 is now stable
• Next.js App Router Update (dev server, docs, etc)
• Is React Having An Angular.js Moment?
• Branding and community needs, Sebastien Markbage thread
• React <Catch> API?
• PR for a new “TS Usage” page in the React docs
• React Handbook
• Reactiflux Learning page
• React Handbook
• Replay for Test Suites
• RTK 2.0 beta
• React-Redux 8.1: new warnings for unstable selectors
• React-Redux 9.0 alpha PR
• Vercel - Introducing Skew Protection
• Chrome for Testing: reliable downloads for browser automation
• Vitest 1.0 Roadmap
• React Jam
• Panda CSS
• Shadcn UI update - June 2023
• React Native 0.72 and Expo SDK 49 running on visionOS
• Docusaurus v3 alpha - MDX 2 + React 18
• AI.JSX - AI Application Framework for Javascript

Join ⁠⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community!

• [00:01:04] Next 13.4, App Router and Server Actions
• Next 13.4
• Server Actions
• Isomorphic Development
• Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge
• RSC data leak security footgun
• [00:14:20] William Candillon – The Joy of Painting with Skia | App.js Conf 2023
• [00:17:42] My Struggle With Remix
• [00:21:53] You Might Not Need React Query
• Using Apollo Client with Next.js 13
• [00:28:25] Write Once, Route Everywhere: File System-based Navigation for Native Apps
• [00:32:07] Improving Performance with HTTP Streaming
• [00:33:50] React Canaries: Enabling Incremental Feature Rollout Outside Meta
• [00:45:56] Client-side rendering of HTML and interactivity
• [00:46:22] React Summit
• Debugging JavaScript
• [00:46:48] Debugging should be easier | App.js Conf 2023
• [00:47:23] React from Another Dimension by Dan Abramov at RemixConf 2023
• [00:48:14] Server-side rendering React in OCaml
• [00:49:17] Several links on React rendering
• The Interactive Guide to Rendering in React
• The Journey of the React Component
• React reconciliation: how it works and why should we care
• A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior
• [00:50:36] TV Spatial Navigation

Developing software requires a lot of communication with other developers, with other teams and divisions, with managers or less experienced developers. Carl Vitullo is joined by Elizabeth Woolf to talk about feedback, team conflicts, salary negotiation, and more.

Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of tech and communication for years, getting her start in 2016 helping professors and students prepare talks and presentations. She’s just launched a new coaching business, Woolf Communication, in January after seeing a gap between what was expected of engineers in the workplace and what training is made available to them.

Links mentioned:

• ⁠https://softskills.audio/
• ⁠⁠https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Timestamps:

• [00:00:45] “Soft skills”
• [00:04:08] Fear of feedback
• [00:06:47] Deciding whether to give feedback
• [00:08:21] Trusting your gut
• [00:09:29] Building feedback into team culture
• [00:10:43] Giving upward feedback
• [00:13:20] Communication as personal improvement
• [00:14:53] Importance of listening
• [00:17:43] Separating tone and content
• [00:23:51] Negotiations
• [00:29:03] Information gathering
• [00:30:25] Different dimensions of value to negotiate
• [00:34:02] Information asymmetry in negotiating
• [00:36:17] Finding and knowing your worth
• [00:37:52] Value of a genuine mentor figure
• [00:38:51] Finding a mentor
• [00:40:03] Asking good questions to a mentor
• [00:42:29] Mentors and genuine networking
• [00:45:27] Networking effectively
• [00:46:57] The power of showing up consistently
• [00:50:02] Learning to trust your gut
• [00:51:02] Looking backwards to find what gives you joy
• [00:56:19] What if your no could have taught you more than yes?
• [00:59:32] Handling being underleveled when hired
• [01:01:49] What if your manager under-leveled you?