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March 14, 2023 · 9 min read

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A new lazy feature in React-Router looks very useful to avoid waterfalls.

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Lazy Loading Routes in React Router 6.4+

React-Router 6.9 has just been released with a new lazy routes feature that allows to avoid waterfalls, and optimize the loading time of your apps. This is how Remix works, but you can now use this technique on any React-Router based app. Personally I plan to use it on Docusaurus (based on React-Router).

👀 React Flight PR - Add Reply Encoding: streaming support for server => client.
👀 Integrating Remix Router with React Transitions: Dan Abramov suggests using startTransition in Remix. Suspended components outside <Suspense> boundaries should block the transition.
🧵 Dan Abramov - "if you’re not composing GraphQL fragments from multiple components into one query [...] you’re missing 80% of the point of GraphQL": interesting discussions about Relay this week. Although quite intimidating, this GraphQL client has many advantages compared to simpler solutions (colocation, data masking...).
🧵 70% of Docusaurus sites have good Core Web Vitals: my little rant because Docusaurus is often forgotten in the list of React meta-frameworks despite a high usage and good performance.
📜 The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era: violent criticism of React 😅 I don't share the same opinion and think that React developers are generally aware of the tradeoffs they make.
📜 Client-side JavaScript and React criticism: What comes next?: more nuanced criticism, but I don't think React and progressive enhancement are incompatible, Remix is a good example.
📜 State in React is Immutable: good intro to the immutable model in React.
📜 Where did Hooks come from?: goes back to understand why we use hooks today. New React developers are not always aware of the problems encountered a few years ago.
📜 Fine-tuning refs with useImperativeHandle: good intro for this hook that allows a React component to expose an imperative API to its parents.
📜 My experience learning React, web standards, and Remix: back to simplicity, less useState and more fullstack.
📜 Send emails using React and Tailwind CSS: React-Email now supports Tailwind classes.
📜 Elegantly managing state and renders in React:highlights how the batching of updates works, which can be surprising at first.
📜 A Brief History of Reactivity: compares the reactive model of various frameworks, including React (coarce-grain reactivity).
📜 The Most Popular Node.js Frameworks in 2023
📜 Full-Stack TypeScript with tRPC and React
📜 Beautiful and mind-bending effects with WebGL Render Targets
🎥 RSC with Dan Abramov and Joe Savona Live Stream
🎥 React's place in the frontend ecosystem
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📦 Ink 4.0: the React renderer for CLI is now under React 18 and ESM.
📦 Koestlich: a "3D UI-kit" based on React-Three-Fiber.
📦 Storybook 7.0 RC: API framework with Next.js support Component Story Format 3, MDX 2... See also the conf Storybook Day 2023
📦 Astro 2.1: Image component, Markdoc support.
📦 Million 2.0: a virtual DOM based on the concept of "blocks" compatible with React and which can make it 70% faster 🤔
📦 SWR 2.1: useSWRSubscription + useSWRInfinite parallel option
📦 Superflare: fullstack toolkit for Cloudflare Workers with support for D1, R2, Session, Queues... integration with Remix, and soon Next.js?
📦 Tremor 2.0: UI lib to create dashboards, now based on Tailwind CSS.
📦 next-route-visualizer
📦 Radix - new Form primitive
📦 Nodl 1.0
📦 Framer-Motion 10.3
🐦 Node.js site now using Next.js

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📜 Building smooth Shared Element Transitions in React Native: good intro to Shared Element Transitions in Reanimated 3. It looks simple and flexible to use, with the possibility to customize the transition with a worklet.
📜 Camera APIs on Android: Marc Rousavy explains why camera management is complicated, especially on Android. VisionCamera v3 should switch back to Camera2, and leave the CameraX API aside for now.
📜 Shopify Tophat - Crafting a Delightful Mobile Developer Experience: Shopify has created its own DX for its mobile apps, not too far from the Expo experience. Interesting article but not totally related to React-Native.
📜 Expo - EAS Build will Default to M1/M2 for iOS Builds: Expo explains the transition to Apple silicon builders to reduce build times on iOS (by 40% for M1, and 10% more for M2)
📜 Microsoft - Adding Jest Snapshot Testing to React Native Windows Apps
📜 Using React Native VisionCamera: Demo and alternatives
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Rspack

Official announcement of the Rust bundler from ByteDance, compatible with Webpack but much faster. It will be hard to choose between Rspack and Turbopack, which also announced upcoming support for Webpack loaders. Note that Unplugin 1.3 already supports Rspack and allows to create agnostic bundler plugins. There is no Unplugin Turbopack support yet, but I hope it is planned!