An Early Look at React's Experimental Animations API!

PAPAFAM Newsletter #164

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Revealed: React's experimental animations API 

<ViewTransition /> is based on the powerful browser-based View Transition API (unsupported in Firefox for now). It’s only in pre-release versions of React so far, but Matt comes armed with examples and demos for you to get an early feel for the potential.

Five Years of React Native at Shopify

Five years ago, Shopify said React Native was the future for mobile development at their company and they really meant it with every mobile app moving to RN over time. Here’s what they learnt along the way and why they’re sticking with it.

Accessibility Essentials Every React Developer Should Know

If you’re an experienced frontend developer, these might be second nature to you by now, but this is a good roundup of the entry level ‘table stakes’ for frontend accessibility.

A Checklist for Your tsconfig.json

What I love about Dr. Axel is when he’s done the hard work of figuring something out for himself, he writes it down. So it goes here, with his journey to set up a good tsconfig.json for his projects.

react-nil 2.0: A React 'Null Renderer'

An interesting experiment to use React in situations where you don’t need it to render anything, but you want to use hooks, suspense, context, and other bits of the React lifecycle. Like in, say, a Node app. Maybe this CodeSandbox example will provoke some ideas.

A Look at Regular Expression Pattern Modifiers

You may be familiar with using flags to change the behavior of regexes, but Dr. Axel looks at a proposal bringing a way to change regex flags within subexpressions (e.g. /^[a-z](?-i:[a-z])$/i;). It’s at stage 4 and should land in ECMAScript 2025.

Build an AI Agent that can use Tools in Next.js 15!

In this video, you'll learn how to build a powerful AI Agent with Next.js 15 + More amazing tech that can interact with various tools and services!

Steven Watkins landing a Senior Web Dev Job with the help of the PAPAFAM!

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