i wrote about my new hobby project overreacted.io/introducing-...

Been working on a new microsite to teach Next.js patterns, and I just published a new one:

"Sharing data with Client Components"

See how to use promises to keep your page unblocked so it can be rendered (or prerendered) as early as possible.

Enjoy!

next-16-recipes.vercel.app/sharing-data...

Giving the docs for the awesome experimental <Activity> component a once-over this morning 💅

This is wonderful. From Lane 8’s newest mixtape.

React v19 is now stable!

react.dev/blog/2024/12...

Need some confetti for my React app. Do any of the libraries make it easy to tether/position the confetti to a specific element? Both react-confetti and react-confetti-boom seem to need absolute x/y coordinates.

Apple TV enabling subtitles for the duration of time that spans your latest skip backward is 👨‍🍳💋

I reallyyyyy miss `import * as Dialog from ''` and <Dialog.Root>, <Dialog.Content> imports when working in RSC 😢 Both LOC and discoverability benefits.

Any idea if there's a future for namespace imports in RSC?

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React is a programming language, and its rules are its syntax.

buildui.com/posts/react-...

✍️ New post: "Uncontrolled or controlled: A matter of perspective"

buildui.com/posts/uncont...

Just updated my Mac Dock demo with transform-only animations, a smoother container, and bouncy app icons!

buildui.com/recipes/magn...

Learned about a neat little browser event this week that is perfect for building an auto-scrolling React component.

Just published a video all about it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saF...

Came across this nice auto-scroller library recently:

github.com/stackblitz/u...

Was fun seeing it work with a useAnimatedText hook I wrote recently! Easy to tweak the spring values to change the vibe.