Simplifying React state management, How to think about security in Next.js, and Simplifying server components
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In this in-depth article, the Causal team writes about how and why they built their own framework for composing frontend stores to significantly improve the developer experience of their React app. It explains the problem they set out to solve, describes their solution, and looks under the hood at how they've optimized it to be better than useSelector.
Juntao Qiu wrote this in-depth article about the benefits of building headless components that extract all non-visual logic and state management, separating the brain of a component from its looks.
Sebastian Markbåge wrote this article highlighting some of the new security paradigms that come with RSC in the Next.js App Router. It shares a few areas to look out for, what protections are built-in, and includes a guide for auditing applications.
In this article, James Amoo and Tomas Fernandez write about the benefits and drawbacks of Framer Motion and GSAP, their key differences, how to set them up in your project, best practices, and the how to pick the best animation library for your React project.
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In this quick guide, Victor Garcia walks you through each step of how to dockerize a React application and deploy it using Docker, Nginx, and Docker Compose.
ICYMI, this is a good wrap-up of all the most impactful announcements from last month's Next.js Conf.
Close.com is looking for an experienced React developer to help design and implement major user-facing features. Close is a 100% globally distributed team of ~85 happy people, dedicated to building a product our customers love.
Hydrogen is a set of opinionated components, utilities, and tools that represent Shopify’s best practices for building custom storefronts on the web. This new release comes with Remix v2 support, better default caching, and codegen for TS and JS.
Mark Dalgleish gave this great talk at React Advanced Conf that will help you understand what's going on under the hood with server components and the line between React and the meta-frameworks built on top of it.