~reactstatus | Issue 399 - A bumper React 19 feature roundup (8)

What’s New in React 19 — A thorough roundup of what’s coming in React 19, which has been in release candidate status for several months now, covering both headline features like Server Components and Actions, as well as many smaller enhancements like easier preloading of resources and control over stylesheet loading precedence.

The Frontend Masters Knowledge Quest Sale Is Going on All Week! — The Frontend Masters Knowledge Quest sale is now on! There's four new learning paths (including JS performance and code architecture) with more epic courses on the way throughout 2024 and beyond.

React and FormData — FormData is ironically both the ‘newest and yet oldest’ standard for accessing form data. Here are some practical ways for using it with TypeScript.

An SSR Performance Showdown — Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find out the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most popular libraries – yes, including React.

react-call: Call Your React Components — Gives you a call(props) function as an imperative way to call a component, even from outside React and with no context providers needed. GitHub repo.

Valtio 2.0: Proxy State Made Simple — Turns objects into self-aware proxies so you can access state and subscribe to changes outside of components, add computed properties and more. Designed for React and compatible with Suspense, but also possible to use with vanilla JS. – GitHub repo.

🐈  React Kitten: Make Desktop-Like Environments for the Web — A quirky, but interestingly presented, project that lets you create a sort of in-browser ‘desktop environment’ with React. The live demo in the docs shows off the idea quite well.

react-native-compressor: Compress Media Before Uploading It — Many chat apps compress media locally before uploading them to a server, and now your React Native app can too.