React Native architecture updates, the return of server side routing, and a new Storybook alternative
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Some big changes are coming to React Native's architecture in 2022, and Nicola Corti from the React Native team at Meta wrote about what the rollout process will look like.
Remix just announced a collection of pre-built, production ready templates that let you get started with building a Remix app in just a few minutes. They also give you the ability to easily create your own custom templates yourself.
Ryan Carniato (the creator of SolidJS) wrote about how much of the web has been moving to client-side navigation for their sites, and what the future might look like going forward.
Mark Erikson (one of the lead maintainers of Redux) wrote about the process of how he and the rest of the Redux team created a new "listener" middleware API for Redux Toolkit -- a process that took over 2.5 years.
Lydia Hallie (from the Vercel team) writes about how she was able to vastly improve the Core Web Vitals score of a demo app (from 32 to 99) by upgrading it to Next.js 12, and some of the specific changes she made to improve performance so dramatically.
Taylor Hunt wrote this highly opinionated (but entertaining) article about trying to fit the ecommerce site for Kroger (a large, US-based grocery store chain) in 20KB and how React "thwarted his goal of serving users as they are."
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In this tutorial, Mateusz Mędrek gives a few helpful techniques for avoiding the common issue of soft keyboard covering the bottom parts of screens, which then are unreachable for the user, unless the keyboard is hidden.
Vojtech Miksu created this new drop-in alternative to Storybook for testing React components. It's based on Vite and claims to be a lot faster, a lot smaller, with all the same features as Storybook and more (including code-splitting and fast refresh enabled by default).
A sortable, virtual, customizable tree component for React -- created by James Kerr.
Neo Nie created this a modern alternative to react-live and lightweight alternative to Sandpack for React.