TMiR 2024-05: Updates from React Conf
Jun 02, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 27
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Episode description
Quick hits
- 9600 laid off from 36 companies
- New releases
- 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:
- 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)
- 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!
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