Why Remix, a technical code interview with Dan Abramov & Ben Awad, and Understanding re-rendering in React
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Ben Ilegbodu wrote this practical breakdown of when to use interfaces versus types when defining TypeScript object types such as React prop types.
Yang Zhang writes about how Remix is worth checking out because of its uniquely different approach to structuring React web apps. His recommendation is that, "even if you aren’t immediately switching everything over, learning Remix’s approach can help shape how you think about and approach React apps in any other context."
Josh Comeau first wrote this article back in May about his "fundamental misunderstanding" about how React works in a server-side-rendering context. Many other React devs (still) probably share this misunderstanding, so this is a helpful read.
A brief article by Andrew Lee on why he thinks GraphQL is a great choice for larger engineering organizations but not a great choice for newer projects with a small team. Do you agree?
Kolby Sisk gives a few quick tips to increase performance in your React application by better understanding re-rendering and memoization.
This Wednesday at 4pm PT, we'll be doing an hour-long Zoom workshop on React Native and Expo with Charlie Cheever, the co-founder of Quora and Expo. Grab a free ui.dev trial if you want to join.
Vladimir Klepov writes about how he loves useRef, even though it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other React hooks. To get around that, he wrote this tutorial to demonstrate four different ways to support lazy initializer in useRef (along with helpful code snippets and examples).
A Lottie component for React Native (iOS and Android). Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as JSON with bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile.
An easy way to add Feature Flags to your Next.js apps with a single React Hook. This package integrates your Next.js application with HappyKit Flags.
We've featured this project in the past, but wanted to shout it out again. It's a small, zero dependency utility to manage modals in a natural way for React. It uses context to persist state of modals globally so that you can show/hide a modal easily either by the modal component or id. Created by the eBay team.
Ben puts Dan through an hour-long technical interview with various common interview questions for React/JavaScript developers.
In this 15-minute video, Philip Fabianek explores what is happening behind the scenes of a React application. It discusses React elements, components, React Reconciliation, the Diffing algorithm, rendering with the React DOM and more.