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episodes/hot-news-on-react-19 #40

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utterances-bot commented 1 month ago

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mmgoodnow commented 1 month ago

One point that I didn't hear you touch on is the current ecosystem trends. It seems that in the past couple years, many UI frameworks/libraries have been converging towards Signals-based APIs, in part to handle the too-many-rerenders concerns. Notably Angular is moving away from zone.js towards signals. Within this broader industry context, I feel like React Compiler sort of represents React digging in its heels and really standing behind their first principles (UI as a function of props and state, reactivity by default). I haven't used it yet and don't know how it'll turn out, but the idea of potentially being able to "just not think about reactivity" is pretty strong.

helloitsjoe commented 1 month ago

@mmgoodnow You asked and we delivered! We just released an episode on the Signals proposal, let us know what you think.

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what React Compiler is like in practice, I agree that it sounds super compelling. I was actually wondering if JS Signals is eventually added to the standard library if React would make use of it too - they haven't implemented their own but I wonder if it becomes a standard if they'll find a way to incorporate it.