Server Actions fly the nest

October 25, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

🐦/𝕏 'use server' / Server Actions Now in React Canary — No blog post – just a Twitter/X thread – but the React team has announced Server Actions (and Client Actions) are available in the latest React Canary release. Providing a way to run functions created alongside your components on the server-side, they’re now ready for adoption by libraries and frameworks, with the team seeking feedback before they arrive in a stable release. There’s also some basic docs.

React Team on X / Twitter

The 9 Best Recommendations in the New React Docs — The latest React docs include all sorts of recommendations on how to best write React code and Josh picks out several of his favorites covering areas like data fetching, extracting shared code into functions, and where to define components.

Josh Justice

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Storybook 7.5: The Popular UI Component Workshop — It’s no longer React exclusive, but Storybook gains plenty of React oriented improvements including much faster startup times for React TypeScript projects, improved Next.js support, as well as Vite 5 support.

Michael Shilman

📖 I enjoyed reading about Storybook’s early history – a post I hadn’t seen at the time. It’s amazing how it has progressed from being a project that was, at one time, abandoned.

Headless Hashnode: A Headless Blogging Approach for Developers — Hashnode is a popular blogging platform for developers and it now has a headless mode so you can use Hashnode’s platform for writing your posts but then render them out for yourself. A Next.js ‘starter kit’ is offered to get you up and running quickly.

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