TMiR 2024-05: Updates from React Conf

Quick hits

• 9600 laid off from 36 companies
• New releases
  • Docusaurus 3.3
  • Mantine 7.9.0
  • Astro 4.8
  • Redwood 7.5
• Upcoming conferences
  • Render ATL June 12-14, 2024. Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Future Frontend June 13-14, 2024. Helsinki, Finland
  • React Norway June 14, 2024. Larvik, Norway
  • React Summit June 14 + 18, 2024. Amsterdam, Netherlands (+remote)
  • React Nexus July 4-5, 2024. Bangalore, India
  • Chain React 2024 July 17-19, 2024. In person in Portland, OR, USA
  • The Geek Conf July 25, 2024. Berlin, Germany

Main Content

• React Conf recap
  • Livestream recording (165k views 🤯)
  • Seth Webster's mentioned thread
  • React 19 RC
  • Talks:
    • What’s new in React 19 by Lydia Hallie
    • React Unpacked: A Roadmap to React 19 by Sam Selikoff
    • React Server Components Demo by Expo Team
    • React for Two Computers by Dan Abramov
    • React Q&A hosted by Michael Chan
    • React Native Q&A hosted by Jamon Holmgren
  • React Compiler
    • Compiler playground
    • Lauren Tan’s walkthrough of using the compiler and seeing the output, and Sathya + Mofei’s deep dive into how the compiler works
    • Jack Herrington’s compiler walkthrough
    • Recommended for library authors to ship compiled artifacts
    • A talk from Lauren Tan in 2016 that’s spiritually related to React Compiler
  • Merging Remix and React Router
• Effect
  • Great 10 min intro
  • Production-Grade Typescript talk at an event they hosted
• The Forensics Of React Server Components
• Next 15 RC (tweet)
  • Unrelated: Vercel raised $250m
  • It’s not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use
• React Native:
  • “New Architecture” is now in beta
  • “useFrameworks” - Meta announcing that you should use Expo by default.
  • React Native Skia updates
  • React Native IDE:
  • Amazon doing a keynote talk on using React Native for TV and other devices.

⚡Lightning round ⚡

• Speculation Rules API in Chrome
• Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue
• BlueSky Engineering Culture, from The Pragmatic Engineer
• Why Patching Globals is Harmful
• Webkit features in Safari 17.5
• Why React Query? (and upcoming React Query course)
• We can have a different web
• Athena Crisis is now open source
• Security Risks of Postman
• Angular v18 is now available!