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Jotai, a New Granular State Management Library for React
Paul Henschel recently released jōtai, a new state management library for React. Jōtai claims a minimalistic API (three functions), typescript-readiness, and compatibility with React Suspense and Concurrent Mode.
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Next.js 9.5 Improves Static Site Regeneration Performance
Next.js, the open-source React-based framework from Vercel, adds several static site generation performance improvements in the Next.js 9.5 release. The release also allows developers to optionally opt-in to Webpack 5 beta for smaller and faster builds.
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React 17 to Ease Migration Pains for Future React Versions
The React team recently released React 17 (first release candidate), two years after React 16. React 17 strives to ease the migration between future major versions of React by enabling two concurrent versions to coexist. React 17 additionally has a few breaking changes related to the event system and the scheduling.
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Interactive Terminal Apps with Ink 3 - New Built-In Hooks, Suspense and React Dev Tool Support
Ink, the React renderer for interactive command-line apps, released Ink 3 with new built-in hooks and better focus and stream management (e.g. stdin) in the terminal. Developers can now leverage the React development tools. Ink 3 also features updated components that allows for better styling of CLIs, built-in error handler and log interception, and other performance and stability improvements.
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Pros and Cons of Migrating to React Native at Khan Academy
After a two-year long transition from native to React Native for their iOS and Android apps, Khan Academy engineer Bryan Clark offered their view on the pros and cons of this decision.
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Smart APIs Require Reactive Business Processes and Technology - Bernd Ruecker at QCon London
Implementing smart APIs, with circuit breakers, async communication, and reactive services, requires changes to business processes, not just buzzword technology. At QCon London, Bernd Ruecker talked about the challenges and tradeoffs to consider when moving beyond simple, request/reply APIs.
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Apollo Data Graph Platform: a GraphQL Middleware Layer for the Enterprise
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Matt Debergalis, founder and CTO at Apollo, discussed the motivations for GraphQL and the Apollo Data Graph platform. Key topics explored included data modelling in an enterprise context, and how incrementally adopting GraphQL can help with decoupling the evolution of frontend and backend systems.
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TypeScript 3.9 Improves Performance, Promises and Errors
The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 3.9, which includes improvements in inference with Promise.all, compiler checking speed, the @ts-expect-error comment, and more in the final major version before TypeScript 4.0.
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Microsoft Introduces App Service Static Web Apps in Preview at Build 2020
During this year's digital Build event, Microsoft announced it had expanded Azure App Service with a new hosting offer explicitly tailored for static web apps. The hosting offering is called App Service Static Web Apps and is currently in preview.
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Recoil - a New State Management Library for React
Recoil is a brand new, experimental state management by Facebook that addresses many of the problems larger applications encounter when using the existing Context API.
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Data Fetching Patterns for a Better User Experience - Joe Savona at React Conf
Joe Savona explored at React Conf some of the ways Relay and Suspense can help improve the user loading experience and the best practices that have been identified in production for using Suspense for data-fetching.
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Optimization Strategies for the New Facebook.com - Ashley Watkins at React Conf
Ashley Watkins discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as data-driven dependencies, phased code and data downloading, and more.
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Significant New Features Planned for Helidon 2.0
Oracle is well on their way to a Helidon 2.0 GA release scheduled for late Spring 2020. Helidon 2.0.0-M1, released in early February, and Helidon 2.0.0-M2, released in late March, have provided a host of new features including: support for reactive messaging; a new command-line tool, a new web client API for Helidon SE, GraalVM support for Helidon MP, and a new reactive database client.
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Facebook Introduces Rome Experimental JavaScript Toolchain
Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain created by Babel and yarn creator Sebastian McKenzie and the React Native team at Facebook. Rome includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, and testing framework, aiming to be "a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code."
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Babel 7.9 Reduces Bundle Sizes, Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support
The Babel 7.9 release decreases default bundle sizes when using the module/nomodule pattern and adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and its type-only imports and exports. Babel 7.9 also improves optimizations for JSX transforms and adds experimental parser support for the ES Record & Tuple proposal.