Next.js 14 Released — Unveiled at last week’s Next.js Conf, Next 14 caused a disproportionate amount of discussion on social media over relatively small changes, mostly surrounding Server Actions being declared stable and the style of development they make possible. The Turbopack bundler is now much faster than before, and a partial prerendering feature is previewed, allowing for dynamic and personalized responses while maintaining the speed of an initially static response. Lee Robinson and Tim Neutkens |
💡 If you’re looking to learn Next.js from scratch, Vercel has also overhauled its Learn Next.js course with the latest features introduced over the past year. |
🙋 Take the State of React Survey 2023 — From the same folks as the State of JavaScript survey comes an all new React-specific outing. As with their other surveys, you get to both test your knowledge while also providing useful data that’s aggregated to help both React’s developers and folks working on libraries and the broader ecosystem focus on the right priorities. Devographics |
Auth, Built for Devs by Devs — The best frontend language deserves the best auth service. Add MFA, SSO, biometrics and advanced threat detection with just a few clicks. Find out for yourself using our easy React quickstart guide. FusionAuth |
Docusaurus 3.0: Meta’s Static Site Generator — Docusaurus is a popular React-powered tool aimed at building documentation sites in particular, though it can handle more general sites too. Folks like Supabase, Redux and Temporal use it for their doc sites. v3 features an upgrade to MDX v3, React 18, Mermaid v10, and essentially modernizes everything. Sébastien Lorber |
An Intro to Building Game UIs with React — React is not often what springs to mind when considering game development. However, this article makes a good case for changing that perception, particularly when it comes to user interaction. (Note that it’s more a high level introduction to the idea, not a practical tutorial.) Adam Madojemu |
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Announcing Material React Table v2 — This brings this library much closer back to the TanStack Table foundation upon which it’s built, with the introduction of the Kevin Van Cott |