TMiR 2024-10: React DevTools update, React Native 0.76 (new architecture dropped), Web Components are(n't) the future

• Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi
• New releases
  • React Native 0.76 proper
    • New Architecture is here
    • BlueSky and Expensify
  • React Compiler Beta
  • React DevTools v6
  • Zustand v5
  • eslint-plugin-react-hooks v5
  • Announcing Deno 2
    • /r/bun: Deno 2 vs Bun? What are your thoughts? 
    • /r/deno: Deno 2 vs Bun? What are your thoughts?
  • Tauri 2.0
  • One - the new RN framework
    • Creators of Tamagui
    • Built on ZeroSync
  • Cloudflare Workers updates
  • Zeego 2.0
• Conferences
  • HalfStack London London, UK Nov 13
  • React Native London London, UK Nov 15
    • Special Discount for podcast listeners with discount code TMIR
  • React Summit US New York, USA Nov 18-21
  • React Africa Casablanca, Morocco Nov 29
  • React Day Berlin Berlin, DE Dec 13 & 16
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Main Content

• Some React 19 progress, but no ETA
  • Lazy Context Propagation
  • “Server Actions” renamed to “Server Functions”
• React Native Bottom Tabs library using native bottom tabs
• Meta Connect showcasing new AR/VR apps built with RN
• Static Hermes Updates
• Reddit is revolting against Epic React
  • Anyone else feel burnt by Epic React? : r/reactjs
  • Epic React V1 => V2 Upgrade & Deception.
• Web Components Are Not the Future
  • Followup to this from March 2020: Maybe Web Components are not the Future?
  • Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present
  • Liskov's Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components
• Announcing VoidZero - Next Generation Toolchain for JavaScript
  • OXC compiler
  • Oxc Transformer Alpha
• Updates from the 104th TC39 meeting
  • Stage 4 proposals
    • Promise.try
    • Sync Iterator Helpers
    • Import Attributes
    • JSON modules
    • RegExp Modifiers
• Language Evolution “JSSugar” proposal
  • NullVoxPopuli on X
  • NullVoxPopuli on X
  • BrendanEich on X
  • Daniel Ehrenberg thoughts

⚡ Lightning round ⚡

• The Disappearance of an Internet Domain – .io
• How to control a React component with the URL
• If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
• Web Without Walls — Dan Abramov
• Preact compat discussion
• Content-visibility in CSS
  • Using CSS containment
  • contain - CanIUse
  • content-visibility - CanIUse
• How I Built My Blog • Josh W. Comeau
• Types of React Components [2024]

• (00:00) - This Month In React
• (00:56) - Job market: [FRED data](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE), [Layoffs.fyi](https://layoffs.fyi/)
• (01:40) - New releases
• (01:43) - [React Native 0.76 proper](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10/23/release-0.76-new-architecture)
• (01:54) - [New Architecture is here](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10/23/the-new-architecture-is-here)
• (05:18) - [BlueSky](https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/releases/tag/1.92.0-na-rc.2) and [Expensify](https://blog.swmansion.com/sunrising-new-architecture-in-the-new-expensify-app-729d237a02f5)
• (06:22) - [React Compiler Beta](https://react.dev/blog/2024/10/21/react-compiler-beta-release)
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