How to start a React project in 2024
January 24, 2024 
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Lessons Learned Upgrading to React 18 — If you get the feeling everyone upgrades to using the newest React version and features ASAP, it’s not true. Most teams take a while to do big upgrades (if they even do so at all) so it’s interesting to see the SonarQube team’s story and some issues they ran into. Phil Nash (SonarSource) |
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How to Start a React Project in 2024 — There are, of course, many ways, but this well-regarded author explains the pros and cons of a few approaches, including using Vite, Astro, or Next.js. Robin Wieruch |
Clerk Is the Easiest Way to Set Up Auth for Your React App — Get drop-in authentication for your React app using Clerk. Their quickstart guide streamlines integration with ready-to-use components, hooks, and helpers, ensuring a smooth authentication and user management experience that just works. Clerk |
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📅 React Conf 2024: May 15-16 in Lake Las Vegas — Meta and Callstack are hosting a two-day React-dedicated event that’ll be both in person and live streamed for free. You can only sign up for notifications so far, but you can pencil in the date nonetheless. (They say it’s in ‘Henderson’ but Lake Las Vegas is a whole other ball game. An odd choice of venue, IMO.) Meta |
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▶ Gateway to React: The React.dev Story — One of the main participants in the reengineering of React’s docs — now available at React.dev — provides an informative and entertaining backstory to the project. Rachel Nabors (Tech Talks YLD) |
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▶ How React Server Components Change Everything — “Server components completely alter how you write React code and in this video I will talk about all the difference between client and server components, what the pros and cons are, as well as when to use each one.” Kyle Cook |
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Prop Drilling and Component Composition — A visual demonstration of how a little restructuring can help you avoid prop drilling (or at least tidy it up). This is from 2023, but we overlooked it at the time. Alex Sidorenko |
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