TMiR 2023-10: React Forget, Canary Releases, Barrel Files, and new releases
This Month in React – October 2023
Mark: React Forget and memoization:
Sathya, React India: Statically analysing React components for fun and profit
Joe and Mofei, React Advanced: Understanding Idiomatic React
TkDodo: The Uphill Battle of Memoization
Response: React memo is good actually
Carl: Server Actions in canary
Version policy
Client Actions
Mark: TanStack Query v5
RTK 2.0: we’re deferring all RTKQ changes until after 2.0!
Carl: Barrel Files
Vercel - How we optimized package imports in Next.js
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - The barrel file debacle
Mark: React useTransition: performance game changer or...?
Lightning round ⚡️
Carl: Photoshop is now on the web!
Mark: Yarn 4.0
HN
Carl: HTTP QUERY verb
Mark: TC39-TG4 - New Task Group created to standardize Source Maps
Actual working group: https://github.com/tc39/source-map-rfc
Example: a proposal for tracking scopes data from my Replay coworker Holger Benl: https://github.com/tc39/source-map-rfc/pull/53/files
My own React Sourcemaps package: https://github.com/markerikson/react-prod-sourcemaps
Carl:
Astro 3.2 - View Transitions improvements
7x perf improvement to Parcel bundling
Neat SIMD/Rust function
Mark: My React Advanced talk: Building Better React DeTools with Replay Time Travel
This Month in React – October 2023
- Mark: React Forget and memoization:
- Sathya, React India: Statically analysing React components for fun and profit
- Joe and Mofei, React Advanced: Understanding Idiomatic React
- TkDodo: The Uphill Battle of Memoization
- Response: React memo is good actually
- Carl: Server Actions in canary
- Mark: TanStack Query v5
- RTK 2.0: we’re deferring all RTKQ changes until after 2.0!
- Carl: Barrel Files
- Mark: React useTransition: performance game changer or...?
- Lightning round ⚡️
- Carl: Photoshop is now on the web!
- Mark: Yarn 4.0
- Carl: HTTP QUERY verb
- Mark: TC39-TG4 - New Task Group created to standardize Source Maps
- Actual working group: https://github.com/tc39/source-map-rfc
- Example: a proposal for tracking scopes data from my Replay coworker Holger Benl: https://github.com/tc39/source-map-rfc/pull/53/files
- My own React Sourcemaps package: https://github.com/markerikson/react-prod-sourcemaps
- Carl:
- Mark: My React Advanced talk: Building Better React DeTools with Replay Time Travel
Creators and Guests

Host
Mark Erikson
An engineer maintaining Redux and Redux Toolkit, working at Replay.io to make smarter AI chat bots and debuggers using time travel.

Producer
Carl Vitullo
Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux, the largest chat community of React professionals.
