React Digest - Making Sense of React Server Components
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React Digest
Making Sense of React Server Components
This year, the React team unveiled something they've been quietly researching for years: an official way to run React components exclusively on the server. This is a significant paradigm shift, and it's caused a whole lot of confusion in the React community. In this tutorial, we'll explore this new world, and build an intuition for how it works, and how we can take advantage of it.
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How to Pass a Component as a Prop in React
Learn different ways to pass a component as a prop in React: passing JSX, using React.ComponentType, and using React.ElementType.
Challenging Established Norms: Making Component Fetching the Exception
Initially, integrating data concerns within our components appeared intuitive to me and simplified the developer experience. However, I eventually found reasons to treat it as a last resort.
Parents & Owners in React: Data Flow
There are two, similar but different component trees in React. Being aware of this difference can help you better structure your React application.
Mastering 'useRef' in React with TypeScript
In React, useRef is a versatile hook that allows developers to interact with the DOM and manage mutable values without triggering re-renders. When combined with TypeScript, it becomes even more powerful, providing type safety and preventing common runtime errors. In this article, we will explore the various use cases of useRef in React, with a focus on using it effectively in TypeScript projects.
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Why React re-renders & when do we need to worry about it?
Sunday, September 3, 2023
An explainer detailing when React re-renders our components #422 – September 04, 2023 View in browser React Digest Why React re-renders & when do we need to worry about it? An explainer detailing
The underlying mechanisms of React’s concurrent mode
Sunday, August 27, 2023
We will heavily make use of the startTransition function from the useTransition hook #421 – August 28, 2023 View in browser React Digest The underlying mechanisms of React's concurrent mode In this
Fantastic closures and how to find them in React
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How they appear, why we need them, what stale closures are, and how to prevent and fix them #420 – August 21, 2023 View in browser React Digest Fantastic closures and how to find them in React Deep
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
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you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React #419 – August 14, 2023 View in browser React Digest Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If
Understanding React Server Components
Sunday, August 6, 2023
React Server Components are changing the fundamental paradigms of React #418 – August 07, 2023 View in browser React Digest Understanding React Server Components React Server Components are changing
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