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Sebastien Lorber
Sebastien Lorber

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This Week In React #124: FLIP, Lifecycle, Next.js, TypeScript, Vanilla-Extract, LiveView, Remix, Fontpie, Remotion...

Hi everyone!

After a few intense weeks, the React ecosystem slows down a bit in terms of major announcements.

We still have some very good articles coming out. The TypeScript plugin for Next.js looks awesome!

The GitHub Universe conference has ended. GitHub seems to be using React more and more, on some views, and also via GitHub Blocks based on MDX.

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Inside Framer's Magic Motion

Inside Framer's Magic Motion

A great interactive article that explains what a layout animation is. It greatly deconstructs the FLIP technique which allows to make this kind of transition perform better via CSS transforms (position, scale). We recreate the layout animation system of Framer Motion step by step.

On the same subject, I recommend to read also Everything about Framer Motion layout animations.


Timeline of a React Component With Hooks

Timeline of a React Component With Hooks

An interactive diagram that demonstrates the lifecycle of a React component, including hooks, refs, and DOM updates/paint (not available on mobile). Also includes a quiz to test your knowledge, and many quotes/references.


Next.js 13

Next.js 13 TypeScript Plugin

Shu Ding is working on a TypeScript language service plugin (source) that significantly improves Next.js DX by bringing docs, new errors and autocompletion on top of Next.js and Server Components conventions. This compensates nicely the inability to type exports from an ES module in TypeScript, a feature much requested by framework authors.


Writing Performant CSS with vanilla-extract

Writing Performant CSS with vanilla-extract

An exhaustive article about vanilla-extract, the no-runtime CSS-in-JS library based on TypeScript by Mark Dalgleish (creator of CSS Modules). Mention also its atomic CSS overlay Sprinkles. Examples based on React: reproduction of a Tailwind UI component. Many comparisons with Tailwind and other CSS-in-JS solutions. Well, it looks powerful, but not so simple indeed 😅 We'll have to study this further.



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