React

RSCs in TanStack Start are server-only executed code — perhaps a significant improvement over the Next.js implementation.

TanStack Form offers a powerful solution for handling form complexity in React. It emphasizes strong typing, performance, and detail management.

A radio button is this: Paul Hebert took at fair look at how Shadcn turns that into 45 lines of code and three imports, which in turn uses Radix which is 215 lines of code and 7 more imports. But do you get better accessibility? No, it’s arguably worse. But do you get ease of […]

It doesn’t mean you can’t get AI to help with accessible code, you’ve just got to know what you’re doing.

A look at an example task an interviewer might give you and all the details of how you could approach and and what they are watching for.

Matt Smith: React Hooks have been around for years, but most codebases still use them the same way: a bit of useState, an overworked useEffect, and a lot of patterns that get copy-pasted without much thought. […]

Despite some not-great recent news about security vulnerabilities, React Server Components (RSCs) are likely in pretty high volume use around the internet thanks to default usage within Next.js, perhaps without users even really knowing it. I enjoyed Nadia Makarevich’s performance-focuced look at them in Bundle Size Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Shrinking Your JavaScript. The […]

Zustand is a minimal, but fun and effective state management library which just may improve your render performance.

A bit of a pivot from the Redwood gang, splitting RedwoodJS into Redwood GraphQL … To minimize disruption and provide clarity going forward, we’re renaming the existing RedwoodJS framework to Redwood GraphQL, reflecting its strength as a mature, stable framework built around GraphQL. … and the newfangled RedwoodSDK. Redwood has always been ultra opinionated (I […]

It’s not particularly obvious, but a child’s useEffect will run before a parent’s will. Let’s look at why.