React Newsletter #253

Make your own Clubhouse app in React, examples of useRef, and test-driven development in React


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Articles

React useRef By Example: What It Is, Why We Need It

useRef is a built-in React Hook that can be confusing for many. But if you spend some time to learn how it works, you'll see that it's actually a hidden gem and a powerful tool in your arsenal. In this article, Linton Ye walks through the mental model behind useRef along with some useFul examples to see it in action.

Before You memo()

In this article, Dan Abramov shares two "surprisingly basic" techniques for improving rendering performance besides memo() and useMemo().

Test-driven Development and React

In this article, Kirill Novik shares his approach to doing application development with React in a test-driven fashion. Think of it as a unicorn of the programming paradigms — it makes a lot of sense, yet doesn’t exist in real life. Or does it?

How TypeScript helps you build better React apps

This is the first article in a multi-part guide from Felix Gerschau that goes over everything you need to know about using React with TypeScript. This article gives a brief introduction to TypeScript and addresses the pros and cons of adding it to a React project.


Tutorials

Recreating Real-World Terrain With React, Three.js & WebGL Shaders

This tutorial will walk you through how to create something similar to Microsoft's Flight Simulator on a smaller scale and with less detail.

Dependency Injection in React

Dependency injection is a form of inversion of control. This means that a component’s dependencies are not part of a component’s internals, they are defined at the public-facing seam, or interface, of the component. This tutorial goees over some techniques for using dependency injection in React.


Projects

Ractive Player

A library for easily creating interactive videos in React.

Leva

A React-first components GUI that's "customizable, extensible and beautiful by deafault."

next-startd

A Next.js landing page template for SaaS products, online services and more.


Videos

How to make an invite-only app.

In this 10-minute video from Fireship.io, you'll learn how to create an invite-only app like Clubhouse with React and Firebase.

Building an Instagram Clone with React and TailwindCSS

This 12-hour tutorial walks through every step of building your own Instagram clone from scratch using React, TailwindCSS, Firebase, React Testing Library, and Cypress.

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