The top React links of 2021
December 22, 2021|
🎄 Hi folks. It’s the end of the year (for us, anyway) so we’re looking back at 2021 with a roundup of the most popular items of the year, whether overall, or in terms of libraries and videos. You should find something useful here that skipped your attention at the time 🙂 Beyond that, have a happy new year and we’ll see you back on Wednesday, January 12. |
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The Top React Status Items of 2021 |
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1. The Tao of React: Design, Architecture & Best Practices — The topic of ‘best practices’ is a perennially popular one in the React world with so many ways to approach each problem. So it’s no surprise this post covering a variety of principles and attitudes for productively building resilient React apps for the long term went down so well. Alex Kondov |
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3. Five Code Smells React Beginners Should Avoid — About to pull the trigger on your first big pull request for a high profile project? You should probably go through this checklist first. As an aside, if you’re writing an article about React, this is the sort of headline that is catnip to readers, as long as you can deliver 🙂 Jason Lee Hodges |
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4. Top React Component Libraries (2021 Edition) — We’re doing a separate list of top code and tools items below, but if you want a one-stop shop for component libraries, the folks at Retool released a 2021 update of their list of top React libraries. Kevin White |
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🛠 Top Code and Tools Links of 2021 |
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Leva: A GUI Panel for React — A control panel that lets you set app properties via a nicely designed interface. Think David Bismut |
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📺 Top Videos of 2021 |
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▶ A Coding Interview with Dan Abramov — This was just two weeks ago, but Dan Abramov’s brave ‘coding interview’ with Ben Awad was the runaway popular video of the year. Ben Awad and Dan Abramov |
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▶ Ten React Hooks Explained, Plus Build Your Own From Scratch — If you still haven’t fully gotten on the React Hooks bandwagon and have just 13:14 to spare, this video is what you need. The narrator doesn’t take a breath: strap in, hang on and get ready to hit the pause button. Fireship |
