Theo’s victory over Create React App

February 5, 2025 By Mark Otto 0

Vite with TypeScript β€” If you’ve created a JavaScript-based React project with Vite and want to get on the TypeScript train, here are the basic steps.

Robin Wieruch

πŸ“Ί Create React App is Finally ‘Dead’ – And Theo is really excited about it. He’s certainly committed to the bit, considering he posted the controversial PR to the React project two years ago asking for CRA to no longer be recommended to new users. Theo Browne

πŸ“„ Building a Semantic Movie Search Demo with pgvector and Next.js Fatih Altinok

πŸ“„ Improve Asynchronous State UX in React with useOptimistic – useOptimistic is a hook for optimistically updating the UI. Ben Zuke

πŸ“± Using Live Activities in a React Native App – How to work with iOS Live Activities. Michael Hayes

πŸ“„ Prebuilt iOS Binaries: Reducing React Native Dev Start Time from Minutes to Seconds Mason Wolters

πŸ›   Code, Tools & Libraries

🐝 Wasp 0.16: A Rails-Like Framework for React, Node and Prisma β€” A once common complaint was a lack of larger Ruby on Rails-esque opinionated frameworks for both Node and React. React has picked up various approaches like Next.js and Redwood, but Wasp, now a pretty mature project, goes all the way by calling itself β€˜Rails-like’. it’s well worth a look.

Wasp, Inc.

πŸ“’  Elsewhere in JavaScript

A quick roundup of some of other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them: