Using Google Sheets as a database

June 19, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

React 19 and Suspense: A Drama in Three Acts — It’s not a good sign when what at first appears to be a bug is actually intended and prescribed behavior. A cautionary tale, but one with a happy ending.

Dominik Dorfmeister (AKA TkDodo)

💡 Henrique Yuji has a writeup on the same matter in How React 19 (Almost) Made the Internet Slower which provoked a very extensive discussion on Hacker News. This pull request from 2023 further covers what led to the change.

Tracing Workshop: Frontend Issues with Backend Solutions — As Developers, we often hear complaints like, “This page is taking too long to load. It’s a front-end issue. Fix it.” But what if the problem isn’t on the front end? How do you trace issues through your stack? Join us for a live discussion on June 20.

Sentry

How to Use Google Sheets as a ‘Database’ with React — The most compelling reason to use this approach? The ability to make your app’s data available to both technical and non-technical people by simply sharing a Google Sheet they likely already know how to use.

Paul Scanlon

IN BRIEF:

  • 📅 React Rally is back for 2024, taking place in Park City, Utah on August 12-14. The speaker line up looks great!

  • 🇲🇦 React Africa is the first international React conference taking place in Africa this November, both in person in Casablanca, Morocco and online. The first round of speakers will be announced tomorrow.

  • ⚽ The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship (a.k.a. ‘the Euros’) is on and Jonny Burger has recreated its TV graphics in React using Remotion. Tweet with video or the code.

  • Vercel has introduced v3.2 of the Vercel AI SDK.

🛠  Code, Tools & Libraries

React Tag Autocomplete 7.3 — A flexible, accessible tagging component that makes it easy to guide users in the right direction when choosing tags. There’s a live demo so you can see it in action.

Matt Hinchliffe

React Native Background Actions v4.0 — A background service library for running background tasks forever (or until the heat death of the universe at least) on Android and iOS.

Rapsssito

⚙︎ Yet Another React Lightbox – Add a lightbox component to your projects quickly. Igor Danchenko

⚙︎ React Native Magic Modal – Simplify your modal management in React Native. Gabriel Taveira