Category: book updates

  • React Router v6 Code Posted

    Chapter 12 covers how to do Routing in React using React Router v5. In the time since the book came out, React Router v6 has been released, which includes some changes to how it’s used. I’m also working on writing a version of Chapter 12 that covers React Router 6. I’ll post that to the…

  • React 18 Update

    The biggest change in React 18 is the addition of concurrent rendering. With concurrent rendering, you can mark state updates as non-urgent in order to improve the performance of your user interface. Concurrent rendering is opt-in. What this means is that it’s only enabled when you use a concurrent feature. As a result, apps built…

  • React 18 is Here!

    The latest version of React has been a long time coming. This new version has some great behind-the-scenes updates to how React rendering works, makes changes to server-side rendering of React, and introduces the new Suspense feature, which lets you specify a loading state for components that aren’t ready to be displayed yet (such as…

  • Errata

    No matter how many times a book is checked and how many editors go over it, it’s inevitable that there will be typos or bugs. Some of these bugs will be due to changes that happened in React or any of its dependencies since the book was written, and some may even be things that…