Hi everyone!
No major React announcements this week, probably due to the US presidential election.
But we still had a bunch of exciting React and React Native and great community articles. I'm particularly excited about the React Compiler direction, and the release of React Navigation 7 with a new screen preloading API. Shopify's React Native endorsement is also great news for our ecosystem. Of course, I'm happy to unveil what I've been working on for months on Docusaurus too!
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I finally caught up with this great talk that announced the explains it well).
- 💸 : Great interactive article showing that lifting state to the URL is not so easy when using RSC-based routing. To obtain a good UX, you have to use startTransition and useOptimistic. The nuqs library can help simplify.
- 📜 : React Actions automatically reset the uncontrolled form inputs, but it might not be what you want on action errors.
- 📜 : Using a Module Federation React bridge to allow using different React versions.
- 📜 : In particular focusing on Radix.
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- 📜 : The project I’ve been working on for a few months now, upgrading Docusaurus to Rust tooling (Rspack, SWC, LightningCSS) makes it 3x faster to build your static site!
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- 📦 : More about functional programming than React but still worth watching to understand the underlying techniques that allow Concurrent React to split work into smaller chunks and regularly yield to the main thread.
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The Next.js team has announced the stable release of Next.js 15, and Clerk is continuing the tradition of (nearly) same-day support for new major Next.js releases with the release of @clerk/nextjs v6. With v6, the auth() helper is now asynchronous, <ClerkProvider> defaults to static rendering instead of dynamic, and support for partial pre-rendering has been introduced.
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React Navigation v7 is now out and should power the upcoming Expo Router v4 coming with Expo SDK 52, both in beta. My favorite highlights are:
- Screen preloading: You can prepare screens ahead of time prior to navigating to them and improve the perceived performance. This one is really exciting and might be able to use Concurrent React features in the future.
- Static API: Simplifies the navigator configuration, and makes it easier to work with TypeScript and deep linking.
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