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CRA 4.0 Alpha, FB5, and Static Types

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CRA 4.0 Alpha, FB5, and Static Types
By Jake Worth • Issue #18 • View online
😎 Hello everyone, and welcome to our eighteenth issue! I’m glad you’re here. This week I’ve collected React-related tweets, announcements, blog posts, videos, and documentation I’ve found interesting. I hope you find something valuable here! Have a great week. –Jake

Quote of the Week
“If you’re interested in open source, here is one trick to try: contribute to a project where you know the maintainer in real life.” –Flarnie Marchan, Interview
Noteworthy
A new release of Create React App project is coming! Ian Sutherland writes: “This release includes TypeScript 4 support, Fast Refresh and ESLint upgrades and experimental support for React 17’s new JSX transform.”
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Moment.js is a ubiquitous JavaScript dependency, and this announcement and candid thoughts from the maintainers is worth a read: “We now generally consider Moment to be a legacy project in maintenance mode. It is not dead, but it is indeed done.”
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This excellent post from Max Rozen is sure to ruffle some feathers. In it, he shares a collection of opinions and tradeoffs to the common React directory structure patterns of today. Lots of hard-won knowledge here!
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Want to learn more about the Virtual DOM? Punit Sethi explains this object in a simple, engaging way.
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I love a cold shower on a technology that I use. This post from James K. Nelson explains the friction, technological and practical, he experienced upgrading from older versions of React.
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Featured Conf Talk
In this part of a team presentation at React Conf 2019, Frank Yan demonstrates some of the techniques powering FB5, the recent Facebook release. Facebook’s CSS-in-JS solution is not yet open source, but it may be someday, and this talk shows why it’s special.
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Doc Pick
Interested in React and type safety? Type-safe JavaScript is a subject of exploding popularity. This article from the official docs covers Flow, TypeScript, and more, and is a great starting point.
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