Reactiflux; with Mark Erikson, Mo Khazali, and Carl Vitullo

This Month in React

How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in React's development and ecosystem, upcoming conferences, and open source releases. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recordings on the last Wednesday of every month in the Reactiflux stage. Hosted Mark Erikson (Redux maintainer), Carl Vitullo (startup veteran), and Mo Khazali (head of mobile at Theodo). See something for us? Post to #tech-reads-and-news

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Jul 2, 2026

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TMiR 2024-04: So many new releases, React 19 featureset 07.05.2024

New releases React 18.3 React 19 beta Node.js v22 Expo SDK 51 beta React Native 0.74.0   React DevTools 5.1 Next v14.2 Bun v1.1 (discussion later) Pnpm v9 Biome 1.7   Supabase goes GA after 4 years in beta Docusaurus 3.2 Gulp v5 Pragmatic Drag and Drop RedwoodJS 7.3 React on Rails v14 Upcoming conferences React Conf 2024 May 15 - 16, 2024. In-person in Henderson, NV, USA App.js Conf 2024 May 22 -...

TMiR 2024-03: React canary is 19, New ShadCN bits, Astro looks like Wordpress. Wiz?? 02.04.2024

Layoffs.fyi New releases React Native 0.74.0? Soon New Architecture docs page TS 5.4 “This is how most dependency injection in React apps should be done” says Sebastian Markbåge Upcoming in 5.5: automatic predicate inference from filter functions , and smaller install size Remix 2.8 Mantine v7.7.0 Rsbuild 0.5 Gleam version 1 ShadCN March 2024 update Astro 4.5 Astro DB , Astro DB Deep Dive React 19...

TMiR 2024-02: React 19 (but more details), Apple tries to kill PWAs 03.03.2024

Quick hits Layoffs.fyi , Trueup.io job trends New releases react-email v2 Tamagui 1.88 Expressive Code Relay 16.2 Remix 2.7 (and 2.6!) discussing later Isograph 0.1.0 Upcoming conferences React Paris 2024 March 22, 2024. In-person in Paris, France + Remote (hybrid) Epic Web Conf 2024 April 10 - 11, 2024. In-person in Park City, UT, USA React Miami 2024 April 19 - 20, 2024. In-person in Miami, FL,...

TMiR 2024-01: React 19?? The year ahead; Why are people so miffed? 03.02.2024

Quick hits Layoffs.fyi   Conferences React Paris March 22nd, Paris, FR   Epic Web April 11th, Park City, UT   React Miami April 19-20th, Miami, FL   React Connection / RN Connection April 22nd, Paris, FR   React Conf 2024 May 15-16 Henderson, NV   New releases React Aria generally available   New shadcn/ui components   Eslint v9 alpha 0   jQuery 4.0??   date-fns v3   ReScript v11   React Libraries...

TMiR 2023-12: RSC accelerates, RTK v2, better React docs, XState v5 29.12.2023

This Month in React – December 2023  Quick hits:  React Native 0.73   New debugging docs   New Debugger, give feedback here   Bridgeless mode   Redux Toolkit 2.0 , Redux 5.0 , and React-Redux 9.0 XState v5 React Server Components updates  React Panel: Frontend Should Embrace React Server Components RSCs from scratch video from Ben Holmes Storybook for React Server Components Dan’s “Chain Reaction”...

TMiR 2023-11: Redux Toolkit 2.0, Kent v Lee, Prettier bounty 01.12.2023

This Month in React – November 2023  Quick hits: TS 5.3 Remix vs Next  Kent – Leeerob Next 14 summary   Next Conf playlist   React Server components, without a framework?   Code – Demo   Remix 2.2.0 Hydrogen (Shopify headless ecommerce) supports Remix v2 Redux Toolkit 2.0 is almost  here! Hopefully  shipping by this weekend :)    Migration page   ⚡️ lightning ⚡️  CSS features roundup (bytes.dev)...

TMiR 2023-10: React Forget, Canary Releases, Barrel Files, and new releases 30.10.2023

This Month in React – October 2023 Mark: React Forget and memoization:  Sathya, React India: Statically analysing React components for fun and profit Joe and Mofei, React Advanced: Understanding Idiomatic React TkDodo: The Uphill Battle of Memoization Response: React memo is good actually Carl: Server Actions in canary Version policy Client Actions Mark: TanStack Query v5 RTK 2.0: we’re deferring...

This Month in React – September 2023 30.09.2023

Remix v2, Docusaurus v3, Node 20.6, Bun 1.0. So much news this month! Node 20.6 - Built-in .env file support   Node.js 16 End-of-Life   Remix v2 pre-release   Upgrade guide   SemVer philosophy   Docusaurus v3 beta   Upgrading frontend dependencies with confidence   Astro 3.0 Making Sense of React Server Components Bun 1.0   My Thoughts on Bun   Announcing Biome   Next.js App Router - Forms and Mut...

This Month in React – August 2023 01.09.2023

Is Gatsby Dead? https://thenewstack.io/is-jamstack-toast-some-developers-say-yes-netlify-says-no/ https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/ Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React RSC Devtools RSC Devtools - Chrome Extension Devtools for React Server Components My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM Remix Dev Tools v2.0 - New settings tab Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,0...

This Month in React – July 2023 31.07.2023

Dan announced he’s leaving Meta My take on the current React & Server Components controversy Yoga v2.0.0-beta.2 How React 18 Improves Application Performance Updates from the 97th TC39 meeting   Web Apps   Lightning   CommonJS is hurting JavaScript / CommonJS is not going away   React Query and React Context   MDX Editor - WYSIWYG React component for Markdown editing   What's Next For Redux wi...

Office Hours – States of Burnout with Jenny Truong 17.07.2023

Jenny Truong is head of operations and developer relations at Stately, and recently gave a talk titled “The Unexpected States of Burnout” at React Miami, which you can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcN8grYAEuQ .  It’s easy to accidentally transition from being productive to burning out. We tend to think in the moment in life - I’m happy, I’m excited, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I'm burnt o...

This Month in React – June 2023 30.06.2023

Links discussed:  Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023 React Native 0.72 - Symlink Support, Better Errors, and more Remix - Dev Server v2 is now stable Next.js App Router Update (dev server, docs, etc) Is React Having An Angular.js Moment? Branding and community needs, Sebastien Markbage thread React API? PR for a new “TS Usage” page in the React docs React Handbook Reactiflux Learning page React...

This Month in React – May 2023 09.06.2023

Join ⁠⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠⁠ , and ⁠⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community! [00:01:04] Next 13.4, App Router and Server Actions Next 13.4 Server Actions Isomorphic Development Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge RSC data leak security footgun [00:14:20] William Candillon – The Joy of Painting with Skia | App.js Conf 2023 [00:17:4...

Office Hours – Professional Communication with Elizabeth Woolf 06.06.2023

Developing software requires a lot of communication with other developers, with other teams and divisions, with managers or less experienced developers. Carl Vitullo is joined by Elizabeth Woolf to talk about feedback, team conflicts, salary negotiation, and more. Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of tech and communication for years, getting her start in 2016 helping professors and students...

This Month in React – April 2023 10.05.2023

Join ⁠⁠Carl Vitullo⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Mark Erikson⁠⁠ , and ⁠⁠Sebastien Lorber⁠⁠ as they cover all the latest news in the React community! 00:40 ⁠⁠⁠React Visualized, react.gg⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Launch tweet⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠The Story of React, uidotdev⁠⁠⁠ 03:49 ⁠⁠⁠Immer v10⁠⁠⁠ 08:41 ⁠⁠⁠NextJS 13.3⁠⁠⁠ 15:09 ⁠⁠⁠New React documentation translation⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Rich Harris talk⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Notes on talk⁠⁠⁠ 18:00 ⁠⁠⁠TypeScript 5.1⁠⁠⁠ 21:08 ⁠⁠⁠MillionJ...

Community Spotlight – React Miami with Michelle Bakels 12.04.2023

Michelle Bakels is co-organizer of React Miami and Program Director of Developer Health at G2i, a hiring platform for Javascript and React developers with deep ties to Reactiflux! We talked about the upcoming conference, how speakers are selected, and how developer health was core to the conference. Learn more at https://www.reactmiami.com, and if you buy a ticket, use our discount code REACTIFLUX...

This Month In React – March 2023 04.04.2023

Join Carl Vitullo, Mark Erikson, and Matt Pocock as we break down This Month in React. A lot of news this month, with a major progress update from the React core team, TypeScript 5.0, and TC39 meeting news. We'll break down what's new in an hour-long conversation. (Sebastien Lorber is on vacation this week, and Matt Pocock of totaltypescript.com is graciously filling in!) [00:01:44] Retire SPA and...

Office Hours – Rewrites, with Sunil Pai and Mark Erikson 23.03.2023

Rewrites! Everyone wants to do one, but the software industry is littered with examples of failed rewrites. Our host Carl Vitullo is joined by Mark Erikson and Sunil Pai to talk shop about what they’ve looked like in our careers, and how to help make sure they’ll be successful. Sunil Pai has loomed large in the React ecosystem for years, working on the core team, and he’s now building https://part...

Office Hours – Becoming a leader with Ankita Kulkarni 14.03.2023

Ankita Kulkarni is an engineer manager and educator with more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, now teaching developers about the transition into management. When Ankita became a manager, she had to find mentors to help her learn the subtle intricacies of being a successful manager. Now, she’s taking what she learned and teaching developers about what that transition looks like,...

Behind the React Documentary 24.02.2023

A documentary about React, produced by Honeypot.io, was released on February 10th, and Carl Vitullo spoke with two of the people instrumental in making it happen: Ida Bechtle, staff filmmaker from Honeypot; and Christopher Chedeau, whose contributions to the React and JS ecosystem are nearly innumerable — React, React Native, Prettier, Docusaurus, Excalidraw, and more. We talked about the document...

Community Spotlight – Joy of React, with Josh Comeau 14.02.2023

Josh Comeau is an indie hacker, educator, and long-time member of the React community. He has a brilliant way of intuitively explaining complex subjects, and we're excited to talk with him about content creation, his experiences being an independent educator, and his new course, Joy of React . We talked about his career, job hopping, content creation, RSI injuries, replacing "best practices" with...

Office Hours – Entrepreneurship, fear of failure, investing, tRPC, and Qwik with Tejas Kumar 02.02.2023

Tejas has worked in developer relations for years at companies like Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and G2i, and is now an independent educator and content creator. He's a mentor, keynote speaker, and angel investor, and we're exited to talk tech! He's super interested in edge computing, Qwik, and React.  He and Carl talked about why he's starting a company, not letting fear of failure stop you from trying...

Office Hours with Wix: Tom Raviv, Omer Kenet, & Peter Shershov 26.01.2023

Our host vcarl is joined by 3 employees of Wix to talk about the evolution of web development, developer tools, and open source: Omer Kenet, Head of Product for Codux Peter Shershov, Engineering Team Lead Tom Raviv, Head of Developer Relations and Team Lead for Stylable.io Wix has been making web development more accessible since 2006, and they're currently celebrating the release of their new pro...

Office Hours with Matt Pocock and MapleLeaf 11.01.2023

Join the Reactiflux community Read the transcript here Matt Pocock is an independent educator building totaltypescript.com . Previously, he has been an employee of Vercel and Stately, and was a member of the XState core team. MapleLeaf is one of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Through our conversation, we discussed how Matt got active in open source, why he's drawn to "the weird...

Office Hours with Retsam19 and MapleLeaf 22.12.2022

Join the Reactiflux community Retsam19 and MapleLeaf are long-time Reactiflux MVPs who have spent countless hours helping out others in the community. Event MC'd by Carl Vitullo , and hosted on Reactiflux . MapleLeaf and Retsam19 are two of our resident TS experts and longtime server MVPs. Both are active in the open source community as highly skilled engineers, and Retsam19 moderates the official...

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