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Advanced React in the Wild

A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. A lot to enjoy here!

JSX Over The Wire

Dan Abramov unpacks why sending UI from the server, rather than just raw data, makes so much sense. He covers the journey from REST to BFFs, and lands on React Server Components as the next logical step, where the server assembles a component tree with data already in place

RedwoodJS Evolving into Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK

The full-stack React-based framework is shaking things up with the existing GraphQL-oriented framework becoming Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK being a more general app abstraction set to be explained properly in the coming weeks.

The ECMAScript Records and Tuples Proposal Has Been Withdrawn

Several years in the making, the record and tuples proposal offered two new deeply immutable data structures to JavaScript, but at this week’s TC39 meeting, the consensus was to drop it.

Hako: A New High-Performance Embeddable JavaScript Engine

A fork of PrimJS (which is, itself, built on top of QuickJS) that compiles down to WebAssembly and can act as a portable, embeddable JavaScript engine for other apps.

Toast messages in React Server Components

A clever way to set up toast notifications in a Next.js app using with Server Components, cookies, server actions, and the Sonner library.

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Watch my latest video & let's build a Reddit 2.0 Clone with AI Moderation (Next.js 15, Sanity CMS, Clerk, AI Agents, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript)

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Soft Skills by John Sonmez

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