Create React App v5.0

December 15, 2021 By Mark Otto 0

🎄 This is the last normal issue of the year but we’re back next week with a “best of 2021” edition to cap off the year. Season’s greetings to you all!
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Peter Cooper and Terence Gannon — editors

Open-Source Session Replay for Developers — We let you see and debug what users do on your web app, helping you fix issues faster. OpenReplay is open-source and self-hosted for complete control over your data.

OpenReplay

React Team Working on Custom Element Support — Dan has posted an update on the long mooted proposal for supporting Web Components standard custom elements. Want to play? “You can still start using it right away if you’re comfortable with @experimental releases.” Support in a production release is promised in future, though the timing depends on the success of the experimental support.

Dan Abramov

Plugging Memory Leaks in Your App“In any reasonably sized app, you can bet memory is leaking somewhere,” says Stoyan, so having a how to on mitigating such leaks is useful. React is used as the basis for the examples here but the basic concepts apply elsewhere too.

Stoyan Stefanov

Can Recoil Replace Redux? — If you have been wondering about making this swap, this brief article will provide an overall view of some trade-offs.

Shailendra Kanherkar

React Developer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers and work on long-term projects for Riot Games, FOX, Sony, Coinbase, and more.
X-Team

Find React Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers.
Hired

▶  React Wednesdays: Learning Motion One with Matt Perry — As TJ says: “MotionOne is like the jQuery of web animations. At 3.3kb it’s a handy little wrapper with a very elegant API.” This chats-meets-live-demo spends an hour covering what it can do.

TJ VanToll and Matt Perry

🛠 Code and Tools

React Headroom: Hide Your Header Until You Need It — A customizable content for header bars that can be shown and hidden under various scroll conditions. For example, when you slide down on the homepage, the header disappears.. but when you scroll up, even just a little, it’s back.

Kyle Mathews

Easybase: Serverless Database as a Service — A potential solution for those who want the benefits of a serverless database architecture with reduced upfront investment, and it’s focused directly at React and React Native developers. A free tier facilitates initial learning and test cases.

Easybase

Liqvid: Interactive Videos with HTML/CSS/JS — Get the familiar paradigm of a video while adding the compelling benefit of viewer interactivity. The ability to edit the ‘source code’ and a lighter storage footprint are additional benefits.

Liqvid