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PAPAFAM Newsletter #202

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Skills.sh

This week Vercel launched Skills.sh. A collection of reusable capabilities for AI agents that you can install with one command. There are already 4,500+ unique agent skills, covering popular tools like BetterAuth, Remotion, and Stripe

Can You Fetch Data with React Server Actions?

Before replacing fetch with React Server Actions, you'll want to read this. This post tests whether Server Actions work for fetching data on the client by building a dashboard app and measuring its performance with both Server Actions and regular fetch

Remotion Releases Agent Skill for Creating Videos

Remotion is a toolkit for creating videos with React that's been around for several years. You compose elements with React and render MP4s of the results. The only issue is, it takes a lot of skill (and code) to make something good.

A few days ago, the Remotion team launched (on X) a set of 'agent skills' (read them here) for tools like Claude Code to create high-quality videos with prompting alone. As an example, here's a log of the session used to create Remotion's own promo video for the feature. Remotion is definitely worth checking out.

useOptimistic Won't Save You

Explains why optimistic UI in React is still hard, even with React 19’s new useOptimistic hook. The article walks through common bugs like flickering state and race conditions, explains how Concurrent React and transitions add more complexity, and shows that useOptimistic alone doesn't solve ordering issues

How to Steal Any React Component

A clever hack that turns React's dev-friendly features against itself. React Developer Tools works by reading React Fiber data that's exposed in the browser. This post shows how to use the same data from live websites and reconstruct components with AI

React has changed, your Hooks should too

The post looks at how modern React (18+) pushes us away from overusing useEffect and toward cleaner, render‑driven patterns. It covers common Hook mistakes, better use of derived state, custom Hooks as true encapsulation, and newer tools like useSyncExternalStore, transitions, and deferred values

Build an AI Dating App w/ React Native + More!

Join me as I show yo how to build a AI Dating App with React Native, Expo SDK 55, Clerk, Convex, OpenAI, Vector Embeddings + More!

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Our Book Recommendation For You

Principles by Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals...Read More