Thread by @sebastienlorber

This week in React

👉 Scheduling Profiler
👉 Next.js 11.1
👉 Split components
👉 "context flag" anti-pattern virus
👉 Dynamic forms with visitor
👉 TS Unions with Destructuring
👉 React Native 0.65 + plans
👉 React Navigation 6.0
👉 Portals + document.body
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React has a new Scheduling Profiler, presented by @brian_d_vaughn

This should help understand better what React is working on, in a concurrent world with features such as Suspense, transitions, offscreen, lazy...

Pro-active & also hint suggestions

github.com/reactwg/react-…

Next.js 11.1 released by @vercel team

nextjs.org/blog/next-11-1

They keep improving DX and perf.
In particular, swc integration and transforms rewritten in Rust.

Experimental ES modules support (turned on by default in next Next 😏)

Next Image improvements

Guideline from the 70's on how to split your React components

@JooForja takes 4 rules from an old evergreen paper, and applies them to React component decomposition.

Rules are a bit formal/abstract but make sense. I follow them intuitively somehow.

joaoforja.com/blog/guideline…

Using destructuring on TypeScript union types can be frustrating

TS doesn't narrow types in if/else/switch

@kyleshevlin highlights the problem here:

kyleshevlin.com/discriminated-…

Note: v4.4 improves type narrowing a bit, but not yet for destructuring 😿:
github.com/microsoft/Type…

How One Conditional Can Entangle Your React App

Interesting story by @jasonleehodges:

betterprogramming.pub/how-one-condit…

The "context flag" React anti-pattern was introduced in a PR

But devs tend to copy what they see: the anti-pattern ends up spreading in the codebase, like a virus😅

Generating User-configured UI Using The Visitor Pattern

Inspired by Babel, @arahansen explains how he uses the visitor pattern for rendering dynamic React forms

Field implementations can be plugged from the outside to suit multiple use-cases

arahansen.com/react-design-p…

React-Native 0.65 introduced by @lunaleaps

- Hermes update, Hades GC, Intl on Android...
- Accessibility improvements
- Version bumps

Some qualified it as a "small release", missing Fabric progress

Very excited to see Hermes slowly becoming ubiquitous

reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/1…

The @reactnative team plans to communicate more

Starting with H2 2021 plans:
reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/1…

- Fabric public rollout

- Improve release process, issue triaging

- Concurrent rendering, lazy offscreen rendering

- Pushing cross-platform: Messenger Desktop feedback, VR

React-Navigation v6, released by @satya164

reactnavigation.org/blog/2021/08/1…

Polish over v5 rewrite

- defaults to native navigation
- better TS typing
- Elements UI lib to build your own navigator
- new Group comp, for organization
- Flipper debugging plugin

Mistakes I made while maintaining an open-source React Native library for five years

@mazzarolomatteo shared thoughts and errors while maintaining React-Native-Modal

This will resonate with anyone that maintains open-source projects for a long time 🤪

mmazzarolo.com/blog/2021-08-2…

Don’t attach tooltips to document.body

atfzl.com/don-t-attach-t…

Interesting advice + perf analysis

This should apply to React apps using PopperJS, Tether and other portals

Web Assembly should be a default binary target

@taybenlor shares an interesting vision where any software can run anywhere

We could have a lot of freedom thanks to WebAssembly portability.

dev.to/taybenlor/web-…

We already see some bits in action, cf Next.js Image

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