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Scott and Wes sit down with Ricky Hanlon from the React core team at Facebook to dive into the latest features and APIs shaping modern React development. From transitions and Suspense to fetching strategies and future directions, this episode breaks down what’s next for React and how developers can take advantage of it.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:20 Who is Ricky Hanlon.
02:10 Setting the Stage: Modern React APIs
02:48 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
03:12 Defining Transitions in React
05:08 Practical Examples of Scheduling.
08:23 useDeferredValue.
09:30 Suspense.
11:13 Fallbacks and animations.
12:35 How do you get psychological performance data?
13:39 Are these considerations reasonable for the average dev?
15:37 useOptimistic.
17:35 Removing delayMs (referred to as maxDuration in later iterations).
19:49 How to fetch data in React.
21:58 Is React now just Nextjs?
23:23 Will React give us a Signals-based state management?
