Explains why Solid is simpler than React. Solid is reactive and directly updates the DOM (without virtual DOM). The render function is only called once, even if the state changes, and there are no stale closure issues. A good article to discover the differences between these 2 frameworks and discover Solid.
I find Solid really interesting. In the short term it can be a very good alternative to React for web apps. However, I am waiting to see the practical use of the innovations of React 18 because I think that the virtual DOM is interesting for the highly anticipated concurrent features.
Nir tells his story: from using React-Bootstrap and MUI to implementing an autocomplete from scratch, to ending up using a headless lib that encapsulates behavior and accessibility. A good intro to understand the interest of headless libs, which also lists the popular libs of the ecosystem.
Johannes shows us how he gradually refactors his file-system structure to keep his app maintainable over time. An interesting line of thought. I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all solution that works for everyone. Personally I like fractal trees, and I would love for
IDEs to offer a way to tag files.
Gatsby now offers an
Image CDN that reduces build times and optimizes loading (Note: Netlify offers
an equivalent). Other notable improvements announced: incremental deploys, full TypeScript support, GitHub Enterprise, trailing slash…
For FP lovers. Devansh explains that you can convert each hook to a render-prop, but not the other way around. Hooks are just syntactic sugar to avoid the “callback hell”. It is related to Haskell monads and the do notation. Show various interesting experiments like implementing conditional rendering, or using generator functions for hooks.
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