React 18.0 Released — Almost a year ago, the plan was for 18 to be simple to upgrade to with minimal changes needed – and despite the introduction of a new concurrent rendered, Suspense, new hooks, automatic batching, and more (all covered in this news post) they’ve pretty much nailed it. This React 18 upgrade guide covers the few things you need to consider, and if you’re a true completist, this changelog covers every tiny change.
The React Team
How to Build a Fullstack App from Scratch — Join Scott Moss for this detailed course looking at modern app building. Get to grips with a stack of tools, including the likes of Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, and React, plus you’ll learn about data modeling, authentication, state management, testing and more.
Frontend Masters
When Does React Render Your Component? — If you’re still a little flummoxed by React rendering behaviour, this takes another crack at explaining it by walking the fine line between superficial overview and technical deep dive.
Zhenghao He
▶ The Story of Next.js — A good balance of detail and high level overview to tell the Next.js story. Despite being just 12 minutes long, it goes into a lot more background and history than you’d expect, too.
Tyler McGinnis
Remix: The Yang to React’s Yin? — Kent C. Dodds continues to flesh out Remix’s raison d’etre with another insightful blog post: this time talking about React’s UI building yin as compared to Remix’s ‘Network Chasm’ yang, which he broadly defines as everything between the client and the server.
Kent C. Dodds
How to Use Props in React — We first linked to this three years ago but Robin has been updating his posts to modern standards, so it remains a fantastic resource now too and is packed with prop-oriented examples.
Robin Wieruch
Quick bits:
📅 React Norway is a React event taking place in the curiously-named Farris Bad hotel in beautiful Larvik, Norway. You can attend virtually online too for a nominal sum, but who doesn’t want to meet Colby Fayock in person?
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
🛠 Code and Tools
⚡️ Quick Bits:
phosphor-react — Who doesn’t need yet another icon library for some future project?
Quite often, readers will write in to us (you can do this by hitting reply to any issue) to ask if we’ll link to their latest React-powered project. We often grant this request but sometimes a project seems merely created with React, but isn’t open source or particularly relevant in terms of a React newsletter. This week we have a nice exception!
Reams, by Adam Butler, is a React Native-powered RSS reader (remember those?) that uses AI-driven layouts to present stories in an immersive but individual style, and while it is available as an app, it’s open source too so you can learn from the code if you want.
