React Router v6, a major rewrite
#264 — November 10, 2021
Meet Hydrogen: Shopify’s React Framework for Dynamic, Contextual and Personalized E-Commerce — Hydrogen is an under-development React-powered framework bringing technologies like React Server Components and Vite into play for building entirely custom storefronts on the Shopify ecommerce platform. Note that it is not public yet but “in early access preview” with a final release due next year.
Ilya Grigorik (Shopify)
React Router v6 Released — “Built from scratch using React hooks” headlines the new version of React Router. It’s the first major release with breaking changes to the API in four years and it’s intended to replace all previous versions along with the experimental Reach Router. It’s also being used as a core for Remix “a new web framework that is going to help you build better websites”.
Michael Jackson (Remix)
🤔 Want to learn more about React Router 6? Robin Wieruch already has a tutorial for you to follow.
New & Updated Course: Complete Intro to Gatsby with Jason Lengstorf — Learn to build blazing-fast apps and websites with React using Gatsby, covering all angles from using GraphQL to store and retrieve data, image optimization, displaying third party data in components, right through to deployment.
Frontend Masters sponsor
Code of Frankenstein: Iteratively Migrating ASP.NET MVC Razor to React and TypeScript — An account of what you could face should you need to migrate a codebase from a long-in-the-tooth Microsoft-oriented development stack.
Tyson Nero
Teaful: Tiny, Easy and Powerful React State Management — A new entrant (most recently known as Fragstore) into the React state management sweepstakes for the smallest solutions. At less than 1KB, this library is a strong contender in that department.
Aral Roca
Jobs
[EU] JavaScript Developer, Preferably with React Knowledge — New hires get a “buddy” who will guide you through the company, code and the process. Newest technologies, development possibilities and satisfaction 🙂
LastMinute.com
Senior Mobile Developer (React Native/Node) – Remote — Join Sippd.com, the Forbes Next1000 startup changing how users find and buy alcohol with AI & computer vision. We’re looking for a generalist that loves growth hacking and taking big bets.
Sippd
Find React Jobs with Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It’s free for job-seekers.
Hired
Using React Query for Any Slow Operations, Not Just API Requests
Swizec Teller
A 10 Question React Code Review Routine
Chak Shun Yu
Common React Hook Mistakes You Should Avoid
Piumi Liyana Gunawardhana
Building an Encyclopedia With React and Wikipedia Search API
Ekekenta Odionyenfe
🛠 Code and Tools
React Freeze: Prevent React Component Subtrees From Rendering — Uses the Suspense mechanism introduced in React 17 to ‘freeze’ component subtrees so they don’t unnecessarily re-render when they’re not visible to the end user.
Software Mansion
Recoil 0.5: A New Version of the ‘Experimental’ State Management Library — Recoil is the ‘Reactish’ approach to state management from the team at Meta Experimental (formerly Facebook Experimental) where their leading edge initiatives are developed.
Meta Experimental
How To Use and Customize the KendoReact DatePicker Component
Progress KendoReact sponsor
Reactstrap 9.0: Stateless React Components for Bootstrap 5 — Here’s how to get started with it.
reactstrap
React Native BLE PLX: Low Energy Bluetooth Library — Bluetooth Low Energy is a technology used heavily in the wearable health and fitness peripheral space. This library opens up React Native integration with these devices.
Intent
axios-hooks: Hooks for the Long Standing HTTP Client — Axios is a mature, and still very popular, promise-based HTTP client.
Simone Busoli
React Date Picker 4.3.0: A Simple and Reusable Date-Picker Component — A mature option that continues to get frequent updates. Demo here.
HackerOne
React Firebase Hooks — Further simplifying React’s integration with Firebase taking its inspiration from RxFire.
CS Frequency
gatsby-starter-ts: Gatsby + TypeScript Starter Project — A starter template for the increasingly popular tool combination for static site generation.
João Pedro Schmitz
⚡️ Quick Bits:
react-animated-numbers — Make your app’s users feel like their lottery numbers have finally come in. Demo.
react-showroom — Document your components from their TypeScript definition.
react-paginate — Break long lists into manageable pages.
react-chicane — “A simple and safe router for React and TypeScript”.
