April 1, 2021

The Monthly Monitor: A goal without a plan is only a wish

Hey Friends,

Rails conf is happening this month on April 12-14. Please checkout the schedule on: https://railsconf.com/

Secondly, React-Trix-RTE packages becomes 1 year old 🎉 last month. The recent release of v1.0.13 where all the issues where addressed by new contributor.

Lastly, Yaroslav Shmarov made an awesome YouTube video on How to use Boring Generators. Boring generators surely speed up the development time.

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Reading/watching list

• useEncapsulation. Speaks about using React custom hooks as a pattern
• 🤔 Always wondered why Apollo is preferred over Relay by GraphQL community and the short answer is it is difficult to setup. Not anymore. Introducing Relay Hooks: Improved React APIs for Relay
• Introspections and Ideas on Caching GraphQL

Rails changelog

• Rails 5.2.5, 6.0.3.6 and 6.1.3.1 have been released to counter the Marcel minemagic gem dependency
• Fixes strict_loading: false on Relation when strict loading is enabled by default
• Fixes issue with double saves in autosave of cyclic associations

My Open-source libraries/contributions

• Rails Contribution
  • Fixes Action Text specs on Rails 6.1 stable
  • Fixes failing ActionText::ContentTest test cases
  • Action Text ships with Active Storage 6.0.0 as dependency instead of 6.0.0-alpha
  • Fixes the asynchronous_queries_test.rb to use assert_equal over assert for comparison
• React Trix RTE
  • Release V1.0.13

Happy coding folks. You can reach out to me twitter for anything and I’ll be happy to chat. Don’t hesitate.