Category: react

An open, high performance data grid

June 1, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Updated Course: Complete Intro to React — Join Brian Holt for this updated look at getting started with React. Covering things like hooks, effects, context, and portals. Throughout this video course you’ll learn about tools from across the entire React ecosystem (like Parcel, ESLint, TailwindCSS,…

Next.js vs React: Which One to Choose for Your App?

May 30, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The burning question today is What’s better: React or Next.js? Let’s have a look closely at both, compare them and see the difference between library and framework. In the React world, Next.js is one of the most popular frameworks for “hitting the ground running.” What…

React vs Vue: What to Choose in 2022?

May 26, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

React and Vue are the two most popular and widely used JavaScript frontend frameworks today. These frameworks allow developers to create a wide variety of web applications with JavaScript. Choosing between the two can be confusing if you are building a new application. Each has…

Big changes ahead for Next.js

May 25, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

A Roundup of React State Management Libraries in 2022 — React’s strength is its flexibility in fitting in with different development approaches, including state management where there are numerous options nowadays. This post does a basic roundup of several popular options including Zustand, Recoil (which…

Testing components with Playwright

May 18, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Aspect: A New Visual Environment for Building Components — It’s a new, unproven tool, but any efforts to simplify the development process are laudable to us, and you might find it useful too. Currently it only exports class components, but it’s great to see them…

Hello useEvent

May 11, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

An RFC for useEvent, a New Fundamental React Hook — Billed as a so-far ‘missing piece’ of the hooks system, the proposed useEvent is for defining an event handler that ‘sees’ fresh props/state but has a stable function identity. The motivation and use cases are…

The story of concurrent rendering in React

May 4, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Shopify Unveils React Native Skia — Skia is a popular (used in Chrome, Android, Firefox, etc.) 2D graphics library and Shopify has brought its 2D drawing capabilities into React Native for you to create your own cross-platform graphics on the fly in any RN app.…

React 18.1 released

April 27, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

Remotion 3.0: ‘Write’ Videos in React — Remotion provides a way for you to use your React knowledge to create videos by writing what you want to happen in code with Remotion then handling the rendering and encoding. ▶️ This video showing off the new…

Putting React on Rails

April 20, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

How to Create a Modern CRUD App with Ruby on Rails and React — A thorough, and newly updated, tutorial covering building a fully functional CRUD app with Rails 7, SQLite, esbuild, React 18, hooks, React Router, and more. An ideal guide if you want…

Caching NextJS Apps with Serverless Redis using Upstash

April 14, 2022 By Mark Otto Off

The modern application we build today is sophisticated. Every time a user loads a webpage, their browser needs to download the bulk of data in order to display that page. A website may consist of millions of data and serve hundreds of API calls. For…