Episodes
Layoffs.fyiNew releasesReact Native 0.74.0? SoonNew Architecture docs pageTS 5.4“This is how most dependency injection in React apps should be done” says Sebastian MarkbågeUpcoming in 5.5: automatic predicate inference from filter functions, and smaller install sizeRemix 2.8Mantine v7.7.0Rsbuild 0.5Gleam version 1ShadCN March 2024 updateAstro 4.5Astro DB, Astro DB Deep DiveReact 19 and React CompilerFeature flags PR - “Canary now represents React 19”React 19 won’t include CompilerReact...
Published 04/02/24
Published 04/02/24
Quick hitsLayoffs.fyi, Trueup.io job trendsNew releasesreact-email v2Tamagui 1.88Expressive CodeRelay 16.2Remix 2.7 (and 2.6!) discussing laterIsograph 0.1.0Upcoming conferencesReact Paris 2024 March 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, France + Remote (hybrid)Epic Web Conf 2024 April 10 - 11, 2024. In-person in Park City, UT, USAReact Miami 2024 April 19 - 20, 2024. In-person in Miami, FL, USAReact Connection 2024 April 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, FranceReact Native Connection 2024 April 23,...
Published 03/03/24
Quick hitsLayoffs.fyi ConferencesReact Paris March 22nd, Paris, FR Epic Web April 11th, Park City, UT React Miami April 19-20th, Miami, FL React Connection / RN Connection April 22nd, Paris, FR React Conf 2024 May 15-16 Henderson, NV New releasesReact Aria generally available New shadcn/ui components Eslint v9 alpha 0 jQuery 4.0?? date-fns v3 ReScript v11 React Libraries for 2024 Rising Stars for JS, React ecosystem 2024 bytes.dev predictions React 19 and upcoming featuresContext...
Published 02/03/24
This Month in React – December 2023 Quick hits: React Native 0.73 New debugging docs New Debugger, give feedback here Bridgeless mode Redux Toolkit 2.0, Redux 5.0, and React-Redux 9.0 XState v5 React Server Components updates React Panel: Frontend Should Embrace React Server Components RSCs from scratch video from Ben Holmes Storybook for React Server Components Dan’s “Chain Reaction” post New RSC-first framework, Waku Introducing StyleX React docs and...
Published 12/29/23
This Month in React – November 2023 Quick hits: TS 5.3 Remix vs Next Kent – Leeerob Next 14 summary Next Conf playlist React Server components, without a framework? Code – Demo Remix 2.2.0 Hydrogen (Shopify headless ecommerce) supports Remix v2 Redux Toolkit 2.0 is almost here! Hopefully shipping by this weekend :) Migration page ⚡️ lightning ⚡️ CSS features roundup (bytes.dev) Why you want React Query 10 years of JS Decorators REACT SOURCEMAPS...
Published 12/01/23
This Month in React – October 2023 Mark: React Forget and memoization: Sathya, React India: Statically analysing React components for fun and profit Joe and Mofei, React Advanced: Understanding Idiomatic React TkDodo: The Uphill Battle of Memoization Response: React memo is good actually Carl: Server Actions in canary Version policy Client Actions Mark: TanStack Query v5 RTK 2.0: we’re deferring all RTKQ changes until after 2.0! Carl: Barrel Files Vercel - How we optimized package...
Published 10/30/23
Remix v2, Docusaurus v3, Node 20.6, Bun 1.0. So much news this month! Node 20.6 - Built-in .env file support Node.js 16 End-of-Life Remix v2 pre-release Upgrade guide SemVer philosophy Docusaurus v3 beta Upgrading frontend dependencies with confidence Astro 3.0 Making Sense of React Server Components Bun 1.0 My Thoughts on Bun Announcing Biome Next.js App Router - Forms and Mutations docs Expo Router RFC - API Routes ⚡️ React-Native running natively on...
Published 09/30/23
Is Gatsby Dead? https://thenewstack.io/is-jamstack-toast-some-developers-say-yes-netlify-says-no/ https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/ Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React RSC Devtools RSC Devtools - Chrome Extension Devtools for React Server Components My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM Remix Dev Tools v2.0 - New settings tab Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Expo Expo Preview - Fully...
Published 09/01/23
Dan announced he’s leaving Meta My take on the current React & Server Components controversy Yoga v2.0.0-beta.2 How React 18 Improves Application Performance Updates from the 97th TC39 meeting Web Apps Lightning CommonJS is hurting JavaScript / CommonJS is not going away React Query and React Context MDX Editor - WYSIWYG React component for Markdown editing What's Next For Redux with Mark Erikson? Recipe kits, a great alternative to installable libraries Prettier...
Published 07/31/23
Jenny Truong is head of operations and developer relations at Stately, and recently gave a talk titled “The Unexpected States of Burnout” at React Miami, which you can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcN8grYAEuQ.  It’s easy to accidentally transition from being productive to burning out. We tend to think in the moment in life - I’m happy, I’m excited, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm burnt out. We sometimes fail to think about the transitions between the states — how did I become tired,...
Published 07/17/23
Links discussed: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 React Native 0.72 - Symlink Support, Better Errors, and more Remix - Dev Server v2 is now stable Next.js App Router Update (dev server, docs, etc) Is React Having An Angular.js Moment? Branding and community needs, Sebastien Markbage thread React API? PR for a new “TS Usage” page in the React docs React Handbook Reactiflux Learning page React Handbook Replay for Test Suites RTK 2.0 beta ...
Published 06/30/23
Join ⁠⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community! [00:01:04] Next 13.4, App Router and Server Actions Next 13.4 Server Actions Isomorphic Development Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge RSC data leak security footgun [00:14:20] William Candillon – The Joy of Painting with Skia | App.js Conf 2023 [00:17:42] My Struggle With Remix [00:21:53] You Might Not Need React Query Using...
Published 06/09/23
Developing software requires a lot of communication with other developers, with other teams and divisions, with managers or less experienced developers. Carl Vitullo is joined by Elizabeth Woolf to talk about feedback, team conflicts, salary negotiation, and more. Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of tech and communication for years, getting her start in 2016 helping professors and students prepare talks and presentations. She’s just launched a new coaching business, Woolf...
Published 06/06/23
Join ⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community! 00:40 ⁠⁠⁠React Visualized, react.gg⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Launch tweet⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠The Story of React, uidotdev⁠⁠⁠ 03:49 ⁠⁠⁠Immer v10⁠⁠⁠ 08:41 ⁠⁠⁠NextJS 13.3⁠⁠⁠ 15:09 ⁠⁠⁠New React documentation translation⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Rich Harris talk⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Notes on talk⁠⁠⁠ 18:00 ⁠⁠⁠TypeScript 5.1⁠⁠⁠ 21:08 ⁠⁠⁠MillionJS, one-function React perf wins⁠⁠⁠ 23:51 React Server...
Published 05/10/23
Michelle Bakels is co-organizer of React Miami and Program Director of Developer Health at G2i, a hiring platform for Javascript and React developers with deep ties to Reactiflux! We talked about the upcoming conference, how speakers are selected, and how developer health was core to the conference. Learn more at https://www.reactmiami.com, and if you buy a ticket, use our discount code...
Published 04/12/23
Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Matt Pocock as we break down This Month in React. A lot of news this month, with a major progress update from the React core team, TypeScript 5.0, and TC39 meeting news. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation. (Sebastien Lorber is on vacation this week, and Matt Pocock of totaltypescript.com is graciously filling in!) [00:01:44] Retire SPA and MPA? [00:10:09] Create React App no longer officially recommended [00:12:16] React...
Published 04/04/23
Rewrites! Everyone wants to do one, but the software industry is littered with examples of failed rewrites. Our host Carl Vitullo is joined by Mark Erikson and Sunil Pai to talk shop about what they’ve looked like in our careers, and how to help make sure they’ll be successful. Sunil Pai has loomed large in the React ecosystem for years, working on the core team, and he’s now building https://partykit.io. Mark Erikson needs no introduction! He’s maintained Redux and Redux Toolkit for years,...
Published 03/23/23
Ankita Kulkarni is an engineer manager and educator with more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, now teaching developers about the transition into management. When Ankita became a manager, she had to find mentors to help her learn the subtle intricacies of being a successful manager. Now, she’s taking what she learned and teaching developers about what that transition looks like, and how to decide if that’s how you’d like to further your career. - @kulkarniankita9:...
Published 03/14/23
A documentary about React, produced by Honeypot.io, was released on February 10th, and Carl Vitullo spoke with two of the people instrumental in making it happen: Ida Bechtle, staff filmmaker from Honeypot; and Christopher Chedeau, whose contributions to the React and JS ecosystem are nearly innumerable — React, React Native, Prettier, Docusaurus, Excalidraw, and more. We talked about the documentary itself, how it got made, and some other behind-the-scenes info — an unofficial “DVD...
Published 02/24/23
Josh Comeau is an indie hacker, educator, and long-time member of the React community. He has a brilliant way of intuitively explaining complex subjects, and we're excited to talk with him about content creation, his experiences being an independent educator, and his new course, Joy of React. We talked about his career, job hopping, content creation, RSI injuries, replacing "best practices" with "happy practices", and more! Some links referenced in the conversation: Mind Body...
Published 02/14/23
Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React.  He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying, investing, and about keeping the focus in devrel on relationships. Why are you starting a...
Published 02/02/23
Our host vcarl is joined by 3 employees of Wix to talk about the evolution of web development, developer tools, and open source: Omer Kenet, Head of Product for Codux Peter Shershov, Engineering Team Lead Tom Raviv, Head of Developer Relations and Team Lead for Stylable.io Wix has been making web development more accessible since 2006, and they're currently celebrating the release of their new project Codux, a visual IDE for React. We're excited to talk about the history of our industry...
Published 01/26/23
Join the Reactiflux community Read the transcript here Matt Pocock is an independent educator building totaltypescript.com. Previously, he has been an employee of Vercel and Stately, and was a member of the XState core team. MapleLeaf is one of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Through our conversation, we discussed how Matt got active in open source, why he's drawn to "the weird parts" of web development, and why working as a voice coach set him up for success after...
Published 01/11/23
Retsam19 and MapleLeaf are long-time Reactiflux MVPs who have spent countless hours helping out others in the community. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo, and hosted on Reactiflux. MapleLeaf and Retsam19 are two of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Both are active in the open source community as highly skilled engineers, and Retsam19 moderates the official TypeScript Discord server. Through our conversation, we discussed how we got our starts in software development and our first...
Published 12/22/22