TMiR 2024-09 – Async Components??, a React 19 cheatsheet, static Hermes, and trademarks drama

New releases

• Node v22.8.0
• Deno 2.0 Release Candidate
• Relay v18
• Redwood v8.0.0
• EpicReact v2
• RsPack 1.0 and Rsbuild 1.0
• Metro 0.80.11
• Effect 3.8
• Astro 4.15
• React Email 3.0
• React Native 0.76 RC2

Main Content

• Bulletproof React updated for NextJS
• New React Native Debugger
• Hermes new Runtime Bytecode Translation
• React 19 
  • React 19 Cheat Sheet
  • What’s new in React 19 (moreso a discussion of the evolution of the rendering model)
  • Build-time Components
  • You can use async functions for components in React 19??
    • Core team forgot to put it in release notes??
• A milestone for TypeScript Performance in TanStack Router
• "we’ve decided to make a few changes to ease the adoption of Next 15"
• Trademarks drama
  • From Deno: JavaScript™
  • WordPress v WPEngine
    • Trademark page diff seems targeted
• "You're writing a vite-based SPA. You need to add a few API routes (i.e., for authentication). What do you do?"
  • Mo at Future Frontend: Dynamic UI at the Edge

⚡ Lightning round ⚡

• Nitromodules released to public
• NodeJS adds an experimental permission model
• TypeScript Styleguide
• Inside ECMAScript: JavaScript Standard Gets an Extra Stage
• The Neverending Story
• Remix The Web from mjackson
• Replacing React code with CSS :has selector
• Performance Optimization Strategies for Large-Scale React Applications

Conferences (React, Javascript)

• SquiggleConf Boston, MA USA Oct 3-4
• RenderCon Nairobi, Kenya Oct 4-5
• React India Goa, India Oct 17-19, 2024
• React Brussels Brussels, Belgium Oct 18
• Next.js Conf SF, USA Oct 24
• React Advanced London London, UK Oct 25, 28
• HalfStack London London, UK Nov 13
• React Native London London, UK Nov 15