Advanced, real-world React case studies

April 16, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

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Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. A lot to enjoy here!

Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh

JSX Over the Wire — Dan Abramov builds on last week’s epic React for Two Computers with thoughts on the evolution of passing data from server to client, contrasting traditional REST endpoints with a BFF approach that builds screen-specific ViewModels mirroring React’s component tree. An enjoyable train of thought for anyone interested in how and why client/server apps are organized the way they are and how it could be even better.

Dan Abramov

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React Day

📄 Migrating Grep from Create React App to Next.js – That’s Grep the code search engine, not grep 😉 More technical detail here than I was expecting. Niser and Corbett (Vercel)

🛠  Code, Tools & Libraries

RedwoodJS Evolving into Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK — The full-stack React-based framework is shaking things up with the existing GraphQL-oriented framework becoming Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK being a more general app abstraction set to be explained properly in the coming weeks.

RedwoodJS

📢  Elsewhere in JavaScript

A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them: