October 20 - Top 3 React articles
Here are your curated resources for the week.
1. Why React Hooks over HOCs by Robin Wieruch
In a modern React world, everyone uses function components with React Hooks. However, the concept of higher-order components (HOCs) is still applicable in a modern React world, because they can be used for class components and function components. Therefore they are the perfect bridge for using reusable abstractions among legacy and modern React components.
2. Webpack 5 release by Tobias Koppers and the entire webpack team
Webpack 4 was released in February 2018. Since then we shipped a lot of features without breaking changes. We know that people dislike major changes with breaking changes. Especially with webpack, which people usually only touch twice a year, and the remaining time it “just works”. But shipping features without breaking changes also has a cost: We can’t do major API or architectural improvements.
3. Getting Started With Framer Motion by Ryan Finni
Framer Motion is an open source React animation library brought to you by Framer. You can make complex, vibrant animations relatively easily with its declarative, prop-driven API and components. This article will begin by covering some basic Framer Motion examples. The second half will kick it up a notch by using those concepts to build a drag and drop component UI.
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