~reactstatus | Issue 411 - How React fared in 2024 (10)

5. Puck: A Self-Hosted Drag-and-Drop Editor for React — Sitting somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and a headless one, Puck enables content teams to author content using real React components. Want to see a demo? Of course.

2. Functional UI Kit: A Unified Figma and React UI Component Kit — Despite many attempts, it doesn’t feel like anyone has really perfected the Figma - React connection yet, but this was a good attempt to bridge the design/code gap, funded by Figma’s Community Creators Fund. No updates in several months, however..

3. MistCSS: Build Components with Just CSS — Forget about CSS-in-JS, what about JS-from-CSS? This approach provided a way to compile CSS-only React components into a TypeScript equivalent, but as of the recent v1.0 release it went a step further and doesn't generate or require any JavaScript at all.. A neat idea.

Introducing Authentication Support for React Router — Clerk announces beta support for React Router, including pre-built UI components, server utilities, and low level utilities for any of your custom flows. You can use React Router both as a framework or library with Clerk.

1. How to Start a React Project in 2024 — It seems appropriate we started out 2024 with a look at the pros and cons of a few approaches to kicking off a React app. I bet we'll be getting a 2025 edition soon too!

3. Why Use Redux Today? — The maintainer of the popular Redux state management library gave a talk at React Summit 2024 where he gave a thorough introduction to the history of Redux, how it grew, and the benefits it continues to provide. There are detailed slides if you’d prefer not to watch the video.

4. Enhancing The New York Times' Web Performance with React 18 — Late in 2023, the team at The New York Times set out to take full advantage of React 18 on its flagship news site. This was an interesting case study looking at the challenges faced in upgrading, and the significant benefits they managed to take advantage of.

6. Bulletproof React: A Scalable Architecture for Production Apps — A popular opinionated guide to how you can structure a large scale React app. It’s had a few major updates over the years, but notably now includes a Next.js version, with both app router and page router approaches.

🤖 assistant-ui: React Components for AI Chat — It doesn’t just give you the interface components, but has integrations for Vercel AI, Langchain, and talking to other common LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI’s), enabling you to build your own in-house AI chat system quickly. Examples.

Component Composition is Great, BTW — A well-regarded author writes about using component composition to avoid conditional rendering for mutually exclusive states (and explains why we should all be doing the same).