⚡️ The Latest In React 

📃 How React, Vue, and Angular Work – Core Principles in One File
Faustinoaq has crafted a GitHub repository that demystifies popular front-end libraries—React, Vue, and Angular—all in one file, using only pure JavaScript (VanillaJS). This project is a good look under the hood at the core principles behind each library.

📱 React Native, and "the native feel"
In a recent blog post, Samuel digs into why some apps built with React Native, though technically "native," often don’t feel that way. While critics may point fingers at React Native, Samuel argues the framework has unique strengths in creating native experiences, if developers put in the extra effort. The post offers concrete examples on how to polish React Native apps for that authentic native feel, focusing on details that make all the difference.

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💪 React Coding Challenge - useFocus()
The CSS pseudo-class :focus-within enables conditional rendering in a parent element based on the focus state of its descendants. While it’s a handy tool, in complex web apps, managing focus state through React can offer greater control. This challenge tasks you with creating a useFocus() hook to bring more flexibility and precision to focus management.

🗃️ Our Journey with Caching
Next.js just dropped a blog post about tackling frontend performance issues, particularly client-server waterfalls that slow down even optimized apps. With the Next.js App Router, they aim to address this by moving client-server REST fetches to the server in a single roundtrip using React Server Components. While still experimental and not quite production ready (missing features and some bugs included), they’re inviting developers to try it out and share feedback.

✅ React Best Practices Ever Developer Should Know
This guide covers essential React best practices that every developer should know, whether they're just starting out or looking to refine their skills. From foundational tips to common pitfalls, these practices help improve code readability, maintainability, and performance.

Quick Links

• NEW Caching System?! (Next.js Conference 2024)

• Upgrading React with micro-frontends

• Full stack components for React admin panels

• How to roll your own auth in JavaScript & TypeScript

• State of React 2024 survey

How headless components became the future for building UI libraries

Irvin Zhan's recent blog post has sparked a wave of interest, diving into the evolution and impact of headless components in React. These headless UI libraries, such as Radix and HeadlessUI, bring unstyled, flexible components to the table, like buttons and date pickers, giving developers full control over styling and functionality.

Unlike traditional component libraries, headless libraries are highly adaptable and integrate seamlessly into any design system, making them a preferred choice for new projects.

Historically, popular libraries like Material UI bundled styles with components, making it easy to launch quickly. But this convenience came with a trade-off: styling could become a battle. Developers often spent as much time overriding default styles as building actual features, sparking demand for a more adaptable solution.

Irvin’s post credits Radix’s success to its engineering team's dedication at Modulz (later acquired by WorkOS) and emphasizes how headless libraries are paving the future of React development. For a deeper dive into how Radix thrived and what lies ahead for headless components, check out Irvin’s full article.

In my latest video, we’ll cover how to persist state in React using localStorage with a custom, reusable hook. Starting with utility functions to save and retrieve data, we’ll set up a simple way to store app state beyond page refreshes.

We’ll bundle everything into a custom hook, making it easy to add persistent state to any component in the app with just one import.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. 👇️