Fixing ‘a glaring animation-sized hole in React’s API’

January 15, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

💡 There are more technical details in the React pull request about ViewTransition.

Five Years of React Native at Shopify — Five years ago, Shopify said React Native was the future for mobile development at their company and they really meant it with every mobile app moving to RN over time. Here’s what they learnt along the way and why they’re sticking with it.

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Write CSS Like a Pro — Kevin Powell shares how to create a responsive website from scratch using modern CSS features (such as nesting, utility classes, custom properties, and more). This detailed video course also dives into adding additional polish via animations, view transitions, and more.

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react-nil 2.0: A React ‘Null Renderer’ — An interesting experiment to use React in situations where you don’t need it to render anything, but you want to use hooks, suspense, context, and other bits of the React lifecycle. Like in, say, a Node app. Maybe this CodeSandbox example will provoke some ideas.

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