Reassure is a new React performance test library. Already presented previously, it has now been open-sourced by Callstack. It allows to post a report in a pull-request when perf regressions are detected. Example: a component that re-renders more slowly, or more often than before. For the moment only React-Native is supported, but web support will come very soon.
A great interactive article that proposes to animate the mouse cursor on several browsers in real time. This is a more complicated problem than it seems. Each approach is illustrated with a React implementation and presents different tradeoffs: CSS transitions, spring, splines…
Interactive article from the same author, presenting many middleware use cases. Already published here, it has just been updated following the official release of Next.js 12.2 which includes some breaking changes.
Sacha Grief (co-author of Discover Meteor, and also of the State of JS, CSS surveys…) takes a look back at 10 years of his personal history with the framework. Meteor has lost popularity, but remains used and has greatly influenced our frontend ecosystem.
Nadia highlights some React behaviors that can be surprising or even counter-intuitive, and explains in which case a parent’s re-render will trigger a child’s re-render on various edge-cases.
Summary of the latest news from the Storybook community: Component Encyclopedia, Figma plugin, Story Explorer, and various addons: Variants, CSS variables, Recoil…
Presents the different problems that state management libs have to solve, and compares some of them. Pre/post Redux retrospective. Complete article but quite long: not easy to read.
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