More Server Components, Missing Abstractions, and Strict Mode

Last week’s newsletter featured React Server Components, and people had questions. This Twitter thread from Dan Abramov summarizes the key details, addressing the community’s most-asked questions.

More Server Components! Here’s the official blog post announcement, with links to the video’s demo and RFC.

The creator of React and ReasonML, Jordan Walke, is leaving Facebook. “After ten years, I am leaving Facebook. I am starting a company.”

In this 25-minute video, Suboptimal Engineer transforms an empty React application into a working piano keyboard in the browser. I love the direct, un-magical presentation style of this live-coding session.

What if your charting library doesn’t support your next feature? Chris Trevino referred to this concept as the “Missing Abstraction” in this talk from React Conf 2018. Watch to learn about brittle abstractions, Taxonomic APIs, the Grammar of Graphics, and a powerful charting library called Vega.

You may have seen a StrictMode component in a larger codebase. To quote the React docs: “StrictMode is a tool for highlighting potential problems in an application.” Use of unsafe lifecycles, use of deprecated APIs, and unintended side effects are some of the problems StrictMode can identify.