Skip to content

React Conf recap blog post #1397

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 4 commits into from
Nov 13, 2018
Merged

React Conf recap blog post #1397

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
4 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
4f6d18e
React Conf recap blog post
Nov 13, 2018
96fba63
Change Tom's profile link to Twitter
Nov 13, 2018
c06a092
Remove references to 16.7
Nov 13, 2018
402c5de
Embed YouTube videos
Nov 13, 2018
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions content/authors.yml
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -85,3 +85,6 @@ wincent:
zpao:
name: Paul O’Shannessy
url: https://twitter.com/zpao
tomocchino:
name: Tom Occhino
url: https://twitter.com/tomocchino
26 changes: 26 additions & 0 deletions content/blog/2018-11-13-react-conf-recap.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
---
title: "React Conf recap: Hooks, Suspense, and Concurrent Rendering"
author: [tomocchino]
---

This year’s [React Conf](https://conf.reactjs.org/) took place on October 25 and 26 in Henderson, Nevada, where more than 600 attendees gathered to discuss the latest in UI engineering.

<br>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V-QO-KO90iQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Sophie Alpert and Dan Abramov kicked off Day 1 with their keynote, React Today and Tomorrow. In the talk, they introduced [Hooks](/docs/hooks-intro.html), which are a new proposal that adds the ability to access features such as state without writing a JavaScript class. Hooks promise to dramatically simplify the code required for React components and are currently available in a React alpha release.

<br>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByBPyMBTzM0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

On the morning of Day 2, Andrew Clark and Brian Vaughn presented [oncurrent Rendering in React. Andrew covered the recently announced [React.lazy API for code splitting](/blog/2018/10/23/react-v-16-6.html) and previewed two upcoming features: concurrent mode and Suspense. Brian demonstrated how to use [React’s new profiler](/blog/2018/09/10/introducing-the-react-profiler.html) tooling to make apps built in React run faster.

<br>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UcqRXTriUVI" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

In the afternoon, Parashuram N spoke in detail about React Native’s New Architecture, a long-term project that the React Native team has been working on over the past year and [announced in June](https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/state-of-react-native-2018). We’re really excited about the potential of this project to improve performance, simplify interoperability with other libraries, and set a strong foundation for the future of React Native.

Now that the conference is over, all 28 conference talks are [available to stream online](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPxbbTqCLbGE5AihOSExAa4wUM-P42EIJ). There are tons of great ones from both days. We can’t wait until next year!