Uncommon React

By Chak Shun Yu

A newsletter helping you become a better React developer by focusing on the less commonly discussed topics, like testing and readability. Almost every weekend straight into your mailbox.

Previous issues

Comparing 3 React Accordion Libraries

#36 Jun 19, 2022

7 TypeScript Utility Types For React Developers

#35 Jun 6, 2022

How To Type React UseCallback Using TypeScript

#34 May 22, 2022

#33

May 15, 2022

How To Filter Nullable Values From An Array Using TypeScript – Heyhoi, everyone!Glad to have you back for the second edition of Uncommon React in May. Summer is com
#32

May 9, 2022

8 common React error messages and how to address them – Heyhoi, everyone!For the month of May, there isn't a very specific topic in mind for Uncommon React.
#31

Apr 24, 2022

5 CSS Concepts React Developers Should Know – Heyhoi, everyone!With April coming to an end, so is our series of articles about CSS. Although it is
#30

Apr 17, 2022

How To Create More Intuitive Styling Using CSS border-box Box Model – Heyhoi, everyone!In last week's edition, we looked into multiline text truncation at how to solve it
#29

Apr 10, 2022

Multiline Text Truncation With CSS line-clamp – Heyhoi, everyone!With the start of April, we're kicking off a new month. This time, the theme of the
#28

Mar 27, 2022

How Does Shallow Comparison Work In React? – Heyhoi, everyone!Since the previous edition of Uncommon React, March has been extremely sunny and war
#27

Mar 13, 2022

Why Did And Don’t You Need To Import React – Heyhoi, lovely people!Last week, we looked at a curious question of whether there is a difference bet
#26

Mar 7, 2022

A Deep Dive Comparison Between useMemo And useCallback – Heyhoi, lovely people!Another week means another edition of Uncommon React. Last month, we explored p
#25

Feb 27, 2022

A Fundamental Guide To React Suspense – Heyhoi, awesome people!During the month of February, we explored different parts of the ever so excit
#24

Feb 13, 2022

An Introductory Guide To Concurrent Rendering – Heyhoi, lovely people!This month we started our exploration of the extremely exciting React 18. The l
#23

Feb 7, 2022

Exploring React 18’s three new APIs – It's crazy how January is already behind us and we're already into the second month of 2022. Hopefull
#22

Feb 1, 2022

5 Reasons React Is Still Worth It To Pick Up In 2022 – Welcome to Uncommon React's last edition of January and I wish you a happy lunar new year. 🦁 During t
#21

Jan 25, 2022

What You Should Definitely Look Out For In React In 2022 – Welcome back again to another edition of Uncommon React! This edition is a bit later than normal as I
#20

Jan 16, 2022

Do You Need To Master JavaScript Before Learning React? – Welcome back to the first edition of Uncommon React in 2022! I hope you had a peaceful, awesome, and/
#19

Dec 31, 2021

End Of Year Reflection (2021) – Welcome to the last edition of the year for Uncommon React. As I've mentioned in the previous edition
#18

Dec 21, 2021

The Most Important Thing I Learned About Writing Readable Code – Welcome once again to another edition of Uncommon React. This one is sadly a bit later than normal. D
#17

Dec 13, 2021

How To Write More Readable React Code – Welcome back to another edition of Uncommon React. We're almost halfway through December already and

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