π¨ #209: Next.js, Compiler, Motion, Remix, Storybook, Toldo, state-in-url, Expo 52, Screens, Skia List, Audio API, Edge-to-Edge, Windows, Godot, True Sheet, Nitro, Worklets, Node.js, TS, Rspack...
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This week has been calm on the React side, I couldn't really pick any headline despite various interesting releases and articles.
Once again, the React Native ecosystem is on fire, with Expo 52, but not only!
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βοΈ Reactβ
- πΈ Product for Engineers - The magic of small engineering teams
- π React PR - Make prerendering always non-blocking: The Suspense siblings prerendering feature (delaying the React 19 release) is re-re-landing after a few back and forths. Turns out there was a hard-to-find one-line bug.
- π react-server - Add initial README: The experimental package for creating custom React streaming server renderers now has some initial documentation. Provides 2 implementations: Fizz for SSR and Flight for RSCs. Advanced content, useful for framework authors looking to add RSC support.
- π Next.js 15 PR - Add
expireTag
andexpirePath
APIs: The `revalidateTag` and `revalidatePath` APIs are being deprecated and renamed with more explicit names. Also itβs possible to pass multiple tags at once now. - π React Compiler case study - Adopting the compiler in Sanity Studio: Adapting the compiler improved their editor fps and helped surface bugs they didnβt know they had.
- π¦ βThe first Turbopack prod build on Vercel is liveβ
- π£ Framer Motion is now independent, introducing Motion: The popular React animation library plans to expand and support other frameworks.
- ποΈΒ React-AfricaΒ - π²π¦ Casablanca - 29 November - Last call ! You still have a chance to get your ticket, and donβt forget the 10% discountΒ with code "TWIR".
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- π Uncontrolled or controlled: A matter of perspective: A component can both be controlled and uncontrolled. I decided to call this RSC: React SchrΓΆdinger Component.
- π React is a programming language, and its rules are its syntax: Interesting thoughts on React rules you have to learn, and constraints that cannot be encoded into the programming language.
- π The magic of keeping one level of abstraction per function: Encourages you to keep each function at a consistent level of abstraction. This includes React components, and I couldnβt agree more.
- π React and FormData: Using
Object.fromEntries
wonβt automatically handle multiple form inputs with the same name. - π Dynamically Generating PWA App Icons in the Next.js App Router: Dynamic generation of the PWA manifest to obtain different icons per environment.
- π Make dangerouslySetInnerHTML Safer by Disabling Inline Event Handlers: React dangerouslySetInnerHTML will not execute scripts but can still execute inline handlers and introduce attack vectors. Make sure to sanitize your inputs.
- π Supporting Offline Mode in TanStack Query: Using the Effect library.
- π Conditional Props in React Using Type Discrimination
- π Managing Interactive Demos in MDX
- π Example of Using useSyncExternalStore with LocalStorage
- π Vercel Makes Changes to Next.js To Simplify Self-Hosting
- π¦ Remix 2.14 & React Router 6.28: Both releases preparing the arrival of React Router v7. New
future.unstable_routeConfig
flag, deprecatingSerializeFrom
andjson/defer
. - π¦ Storybook 8.4 - 1-click Component Testing in browser, smaller, RN Storybook 8
- π¦ Next.js AI Chatbot Template 3.0
- π¦ Toldo - Elevated dialog component for React, based on Radix
- π¦ State-in-URL - Deep links and url state synchronization without the hassle: An alternative to nuqs with different serialization opinions.
- π¦ ImmutableJS 5.0 - Improve Map typing, remove deprecated methods
- π¦ Gatsby 5.14 - Performance improvements and security fixes
- π₯ Jack Herrington - Tanstack Start vs NextJS - Server Functions Battle
- π₯ Theo - The fastest website ever? McMaster-Carr
- ποΈ JSParty - How Vercel thinks about Next.js, with Tom Occhino
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π± React-Nativeβ
Just after the excellent React Native 0.76 milestone release, here comes Expo SDK 52, just as great. Thereβs a huge changelog and many expo package updates. My favorite items are:
- New Architecture enabled by default for new projects, opt-in for existing ones. Expo Go now only supports the New Architecture.
- Expo Router 4, React Navigation 7
- Universal Server Components and Server Actions (experimental)
- DOM Components with the
βuse domβ
directive for incremental migrations or seamlessly integrating a WebView - React Native DevTools
- Universal Tree Shaking (experimental)
- React Compiler (experimental)
You might also like:
- π Expo Launch Party - November 18-22
- π₯ notJust Dev - Expo SDK 52 & React Native 0.76: Latest Updates and Improvements
- πΈ Expo Starter β A Universal Mobile App Kit to Help You Get Started Quickly and Save Time and Money
- π React Native Android PR - Edge-to-Edge Modal,
navigationBarTranslucent
prop - π Bluesky App PR - Reduce Reanimated serialization traffic: Dan Abramov found a weird
makeMutable
trick to optimize Reanimated serialization that doubled the ap - π What is the best React Native list component?
- π How to add an animated splash screen with expo-custom-assets
- π Build an AI Voice Recorder with React Native (Firebase, Whisper API, Expo)
- π¦ React Native Audio API: Software Mansion unveils an early version of a lib implementing the Web Audio API.
- π¦ React Native Skia List: Why not make React Native lists even faster with a canvas π€ Itβs harder and less familiar to implement classic UI layouts with Skia, but another π¦ upcoming Yoga binding lib could help.
- π¦ React Native True Sheet: Unlike BottomSheet, itβs implemented native-side instead of with RN/Reanimated. The next release will support Android edge-to-edge.
- π¦ React Native Screen 4.0 - Supports React Navigation 7, Stack screen preloading, native bottom sheet, Fabric fixes
- π¦ React Native Bottom Tabs 0.5 - Support for SVG and custom fonts
- π¦ React Native Windows 0.76 - Preview release of New Architecture
- π¦ React Native Worklets Core 1.5 - Support 0.76 and Nitro modules
- π¦ Nitro 0.16 - visionOS support
- π¦ React Native Godot - Create immersive 3D experiences
- π¦ Radon IDE 0.0.22 beta - Expo Router 4, touch indicators, deeplink, pasta from clipboard
- ποΈ RNR 313 - React Native 0.75 & 0.76
π Otherβ
- π Overflow Clip - Learn how overflow: clip works in CSS
- π Exploring the browser rendering process
- π View Transitions: Single Page Apps Without a Framework
- π Deno - Introducing your new JavaScript package manager
- π¦ Node v23.2 - New
stripTypeScriptTypes(code)
API, TypeScript in βactiveβ development status: Note itβs also planned to unflag TS support! - π¦ TypeScript 5.7 RC - es2024 lib, check uninitialized variables, extensions rewriting
- π¦ Rspack 1.1 - faster builds/HMR, improve HtmlRspackPlugin and JSDoc, community adoption from Nuxt/Docusaurus
π€ Funβ
See ya! π
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