Reactathon 2022 – A Short Summary

Lately we’ve been filled with cool stuff in the React community. In case you missed it, Reactathon happened at the beginning of May, and with it came a lot of interesting talks and discussions between people in the community.

In this post I’ll reference what I consider to be the most interesting and hot topics on the React community… and try to make it short.

If you haven’t seen the conference, you can take a look at this YT playlist for all sessions.

The state of React 2022

So first of all, what is the state of React currently? With React 18, what was once called concurrent mode is now concurrent features. This changes the approach into an incremental adoption, so that you could use concurrent features in specific places of your React app.

In this talk, Lee also announces Next.js new routing system which resembles Remix a lot. They want to take advantage of nested routes which is great! This allows us to provide a better user experience on pages that have one component that blocks rendering.

Last but not least, there are new developments when it comes to server-side rendering, and new client-side rendering APIs.