Mark Erikson

look I only rewatched "Golden" about 15 times today (including two vocal coach reaction videos), that's reasonable right?

(_not_ an exaggeration)

“sometimes its ok to just… not support things”

State of React 2025 Suggestions · Issue #262 · Devographics/surveys YAML config files for the Devographics surveys. Contribute to Devographics/surveys development by creating an account on GitHub.

It'll soon be time for the State of React 2025 survey! feel free to suggest questions here: github.com/Devographics...

so you're saying you _have_ tried turning it off and on again :)

or just adding themselves to the list of contributors 😭

Downloads by Major (or Minor) Reveal problems users are having with upgrading to the next major (or minor). Search for a package to see if its ecosystem has an upgrading problem.

Agreed. If you look at majors.nullvoxpopuli.com/q?minors=fal... , 18 is by far still the dominant version.

@phry.dev is apparently doing that, yeah:

github.com/apollographq...

👀 React + throw a promise technique, soon deprecated?

If you throw promises to trigger Suspense boundaries, it looks like a good idea to migrate to React.use()

PR not merged yet, but it's likely React will print a warning

as a Bengals fan, I 1) get this reference despite not knowing who you're talking about, and 2) resent that this is now a valid comparison to make :(

for me personally: I keep up with the React ecosystem (naturally and as a moderator). But I feel like I have less and less things that I want to say in general, and even if I have a mental response to a thread I often self-filter and question "is it even worth saying that? is there a point?"

All of the above, I think.

Platform fragmentation, ecosystem maturity and thus less to talk about, lots of folks pivoting to / arguing about AI.

Dunno if you've ever seen our "This Month in React" podcast in Reactiflux, but we end up relying heavily on newsletters as sources (so aggregating^2)

The Useless useCallback Why most memoization is downright useless...

📚 Whenever I see useCallback, I wonder: why do we need it here? And a lot of the times, when I look deeper, I see that it actually doesn’t do anything. I think a lot of code-bases would be better of just not memoizing at all - and then let the compiler do it for you:

Wrote an article about how React Server Components integrate with a bundler. It's a deep dive into how code splitting works, how RSCs eliminate network waterfalls, how environment directives like "use client" work, CSS loading, etc. Check it out! devongovett.me/blog/parcel-...

Ironically, my own Windows laptop just works fine when I plug in the HDMI at a conf, whereas I've seen people with Macs struggle 🤷‍♂️

Never write your own Date Parsing Library—zachleat.com A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Never write your own Date Parsing Library (I wrote my own Date Parsing Library)

www.zachleat.com/web/adventur...

People hate seeing deprecations when they upgrade.

But think of it like this -- you're basically benefiting from labor, research and development you didn't pay for.

Deprecations are how library authors communicate that that a pattern is problematic, and you'll benefit by change

The present and the future of SPAs in React Single page applications for the win

✍️ New blog post ⚛️

SPAs are, still, the major rendering model of React apps. How it evolved during these last years and how the future will be?

www.felgus.dev/blog/future-...

I left feeling more hopeful about where web development is headed.

I can’t make it this year because I’ll be on vacation, but if you have the chance to go, do it.

And please, say hi to Myrtle. You’ll know her when you see her.

What really stuck with me was the crowd.

People from all kinds of small, passionate communities working on developer tooling. Different lenses. Thoughtful ideas. Kind energy all around.

Robby Russell giving a talk about Oh My Zsh on stage at the New England Aquarium IMAX theater.

Robby Russell giving a talk about Oh My Zsh on stage at the New England Aquarium IMAX theater.

If you’re looking for a reason to visit Boston in September, check out @squiggleconf.com.

Last year, they invited me to kick things off with a talk about the 15-year story of building @ohmyz.sh. A weekend side project that slowly grew into a global community I never could have predicted.

screenshot of new React Compiler docs. you can see the actual docs here: https://react.dev/learn/react-compiler

new React Compiler docs have landed! thank you everyone for the feedback.

react.dev/learn/react-...

overall I'd say the answer is that props are a superset and add more flexibility, so there's never been a need to seriously consider adding them

- what would that look like?
- why are they needed given the ability to pass JSX as a prop?

"I see a console and I want to paint it black..."

Congrats I guess? 🤣

React Router and React Server Components: The Path Forward React Router's RSC support is more than just a new feature. It's a major architectural shift that makes it a much more powerful library while also making Framework Mode less coupled to any particular ...

RR + unstable RSC support has shipped. Please give it a go and let me know about any pain points.

remix.run/blog/react-r...

[compiler] Rewrite React Compiler Docs by poteto · Pull Request #7868 · reactjs/react.dev We've received feedback that the compiler docs are difficult to understand and not prominent enough that people don't realize the compiler is a serious project and is near stable. This PR r...

i've started on a rewrite of the React Compiler docs thanks to the feedback from this thread: bsky.app/profile/nmn....

i want to make our compiler docs really great before the stable release, so i would love to hear more feedback!
github.com/reactjs/reac...

[compiler] Rewrite React Compiler Docs by poteto · Pull Request #7868 · reactjs/react.dev We've received feedback that the compiler docs are difficult to understand and not prominent enough that people don't realize the compiler is a serious project and is near stable. This PR r...

@rossipedia.com @danabra.mov i took into account all the comments in the thread in a rewrite: github.com/reactjs/reac...

would love to hear your thoughts on the PR and if there's anything else we can add to make the docs better!

yeah, that's Maciej Cegłowski ( idlewords.com , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_... ). Great writer, good sense of humor.

Unfortunately the site has also kinda bit-rotted in the last few years and hasn't gotten enough maintenance attention :(

Honestly, thank you for this! love the attitude, intent, and positivity you're showing here. wish we had more folks like this online :) subscribed!