📨 #141: 20.000 subscribers 🥳, Next.js, Storybook, React Visualized, Remix, Chakra, Modern.js, Reselect, React-Native Benchmarks, Expo...

April 11, 2023 · 8 min read

Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

We just passed a milestone: you are now over 20,000 subscribers! 🥳️

Thanks to all of you for giving me your attention every week and for helping me grow this project! If you want to give me a hand: word-of-mouth works well. I'm setting up a referral program that will soon allow me to know my best ambassadors, and to thank or reward them.

Having a critical mass of readers is important: it allows to find sponsors and compensate for the fact that I spend 50% of my time on it. After 3 years of effort, I've finally reached sustainability: it will give me the freedom to test new ideas without taking too many risks.

Otherwise, this week is marked by the release of Next.js 13.3 and Storybook 7.0. React Visualized is a very nice resource for beginners. I discovered Modern.js. Some good articles about React, Remix and Chakra UI. Calm on React-Native side.

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File-Based Metadata API: new file system conventions to generate sitemaps, robots, favicons... See also this visual thread.
Dynamic Open Graph Images: integration of @vercel/og and Satori directly in Next.js to generate social cards via JSX and CSS/Tailwind.
Static Export: Next.js can run Server Components at build time and produce a static export of your app that does not require a server runtime.
Parallel Routes: the layout component can define multiple slots that will be filled by different pages.
Interception Routes: allows to implement "Instagram" type routing patterns, a photo can be opened in a modal or in full screen depending on where you come from.
Many other improvements.

React, Visualized

A very nice visual and interactive resource to discover React. To share with beginner React devs within your team.

👀 Modern.js: ByteDance devs don't only offer rspack, but also a complete React meta-framework, and a whole ecosystem of tools. Keep an eye on this!
👀 Next.js RFC - next/third-parties: the goal is to create wrappers on top of next/script to facilitate the integration of popular libraries like Google Analytics.
👀 Next.js PR - Add Zod and router state validation
👀 Reselect PR - Add experimental new memoizers: autotrack, weakmap, and signalis
📜 Storybook 7.0: the blog post has just been published! Big release that we already talked about several times.
📜 The future of Chakra UI: Chakra UI wants to switch to zero-runtime CSS-in-JS to be compatible with Server Components. Aims to be a universal library with a good DX. They are creating Panda for CSS-in-JS, and Ark to help with the integration of agnostic Zag.js state machines.
📜 Fighting inter-component HTML bloat: a good article that advises to avoid creating useless DOM wrapper elements in a React context. Suggests some interesting solutions that I didn't know, like Radix asChild.
📜 Server-side render dates across timezones with Remix: cookie-based solution to solve React hydration issues related to a different timezone between client and SSR.
📜 Framework popularity on Netlify: stats on the use of many React frameworks at Netlify. Glad to see Docusaurus there!
📜 Generate open graph social preview images with Remix: as @vercel/og only runs on Vercel, this solution gives a similar result using Satori and svg2img.
📜 Why & How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp: feedback on the choice to use Elm or React over time.
📜 The Most Common Mistakes When Using React
📜 Improving React Testing Library Tests
📜 NextJS - SPA or MPA?
📦 React Aria Components alpha: to facilitate the use of React-Aria and other React-Aria + React-Spectrum updates.
📦 Astro 2.2: assetPrefix to use a CDN and changes on the image() helper for the collections schema.
📦 Next-Auth v4.22: support Route Handlers support.
📦 next-seo v6: recommande d'utiliser les nouvelles API Next.js avec le App Router.
📦 Deno SaaS Kit: official Deno boilerplate to create SaaS, based on Fresh and Preact.
🎥 Secret React Server Component Patterns They Don't Want You To Know: interesting for those who want to know more about Wakuwork and its RSC capabilities not present in Next.js 13.
🎥 Why React breaks your app – on purpose: explains why React renders the app twice with Strict Mode.
🎥 React Server Components without NextJS - A 1 minute guide: great short RSC overview.

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