Issue 4 (March 24th - March 30th, 2022)

How Next.js took over the world

React 18 is now available on npm!— Almost a year ago, the plan was for 18 to be simple to upgrade to with minimal changes needed – and despite the introduction of a new concurrent rendered, Suspense, new hooks, automatic batching, and more (all covered in this news post) they’ve pretty much nailed it. This React 18 upgrade guide covers the few things you need to consider, and if you’re a true completist, this changelog covers every tiny change.

Conquering JavaScript Hydration- Hydration, the process of spreading JavaScript interactivity back into our applications after server rendering, has been regarded as the most challenging problem for JavaScript frameworks for the past several years. To that end, we are nearing a point where we can consider Hydration a solved problem.

Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API - Date, JavaScript’s current date time API is infamously difficult to use. The ECMAScript proposal “Temporal” is a new and better date time API and currently at stage 3.