This Week In React #153: Astro, MUI, Next.js, Remix, React-Query, AsyncLocalStorage, Reanimated, React-Tweet, TypeScript...
Tags: react, reactnative
Published: 2023-07-31 09:53:07

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## ⚛️ React

[![Astro 2.9](https://thisweekinreact.com/emails/issues/153/astro.jpg)](https://astro.build/blog/astro-290/)

[**Astro 2.9**](https://astro.build/blog/astro-290/)

A new version of Astro has just been released with a long-awaited experimental feature: [View Transitions](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions/). This makes it easy to create fluid, animated transitions between HTML pages, without having to resort to client-side routing: there's no need for a `<Link>` component as with Next.js or Remix. For a React developer, this makes the framework more appealing and competitive in terms of UX compared with the classic SPA mode we're used to, while keeping a model simpler. Careful: these transitions won't preserve your React state across navigation, which could be a problem. Note [support View Transitions](https://caniuse.com/?search=View%20Transition%20API) remains weak, but is making rapid progress and can be considered as a progressive enhancement, plus Astro offers a fallback mode.

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- 👤 [Dan Abramov leaves his job at Meta, but remains in the React core team](https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1682029195843739649)
- 👤 [Meta is hiring a React DX Engineering Manager (London)](https://twitter.com/sebastienlorber/status/1683529524414148608)
- 🧑‍🎓 [New Jotai tutorial](https://twitter.com/jotaijs/status/1682075111040630784)
- 💬 [Material UI RFC - Zero-runtime CSS-in-JS](https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/38137): MUI plans to develop a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS solution inspired by Linaria/Compiled, compatible with RSCs. Also explains why it cannot rely on any existing solution.
- 💡 [Server Components allow to pass promises over the network](https://twitter.com/ryantotweets/status/1681696002883944451)
- 💡 [forwardRef type fix that works with generics](https://twitter.com/sebastienlorber/status/1683753462058610688)
- 📜 [React Query and React Context](https://tkdodo.eu/blog/react-query-and-react-context): Dominik explains how putting React-Query data into a React context can be useful in making your data dependencies more explicit. The future `useSuspenseQuery` hook could also be a good alternative.
- 📜 [Next 13 cookies() and headers() explained](https://raphael.badia.cc/posts/next-13-cookies-and-headers-explained): explains how Next.js uses `AsyncLocalStorage` (and [later AsyncContext?](https://twitter.com/sebastienlorber/status/1639183216799100928)) to expose its `cookies()` and `headers()` functions to RSCs.
- 📜 [Kuma UI vs Panda CSS – My first impressions](https://www.devas.life/my-first-impressions-of-kuma-ui-and-panda-css/): quick comparison of the 2 new CSS-in-JS libraries. The author settled on Kuma UI.
- 📜 [Recipe kits, a great alternative to installable libraries](https://andrewingram.net/posts/recipe-kits-a-great-alternative-to-installable-libraries): discusses the emergence and interest of UI kits that are not distributed via npm: Shadcn UI, Tailwind UI (and soon Tailwind Catalyst).
- 📜 [Tailwind Connect 2023 Recap](https://tailwindcss.com/blog/2023-07-18-tailwind-connect-2023-recap): written summary of the conference, which also presented Catalyst, the React UI Kit currently under development.
- 📜 [Introducing React-Tweet](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-react-tweet): Vercel offers an RSC-compatible package for efficiently displaying tweets in web pages.
- 📜 [React Server Components Tips](https://echobind.com/post/react-server-components-tips): 5 good tips and mental models for understanding and using CSRs.
- 📜 [Origins of JSX and Why It Exists](https://dodov.dev/blog/origins-of-jsx-and-why-it-exists)
- 📜 [Lazy Loading in React and Next.js Apps](https://www.fullctx.dev/p/lazy-loading-in-react-and-nextjs)
- 📦 [Storybook 7.1 - in-app onboarding, zero-config styling support, TypeScript snippets...](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-7-1/)
- 📦 [TanStack Query v5 beta - mostly stable, migration guide and code mods available](https://twitter.com/TkDodo/status/1683425919770173442)
- 📦 [Remix 1.19 - Improved dev server networking option, ESBuild metafiles, better Node polyfills...](https://github.com/remix-run/remix/releases/tag/remix%401.19.0)
- 📦 [Redwood v6.0.0 RC](https://community.redwoodjs.com/t/redwood-v6-0-0-rc-is-now-available/5044)
- 📦 [Vaul - Unstyled drawer component for React](https://twitter.com/emilkowalski_/status/1683832539490942978)
- 📦 [Framer-Motion 10.13 - Scroll API](https://twitter.com/mattgperry/status/1681663921072078851)
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- 🎉 [Expo Launch Party](https://expo.dev/launch-party): an Expo launch week scheduled for the week of 8 August?
- 👥 [Debugging React Native Apps End-to-End: AMA with Experts from Meta and Sentry - 26 July](https://sentry.io/resources/ama-debugging-react-native-apps-end-to-end/)
- 📜 [Redefining Navigation in React Native: the Potential of expo-router](https://www.bam.tech/en/article/redefining-navigation-in-react-native-the-potential-of-expo-router): good analysis of the trade-offs between Expo Router (v1) and React-Navigation.
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