Frontend Development

Introduction For the past few months, I’ve been hard at work on my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations. For each course, I create a custom landing page, and for a…

Next.js 15.5 includes Turbopack builds in beta, stable Node.js middleware, TypeScript improvements, next lint deprecation, and deprecation warnings for Next.js 16. Highlights for this release include: Upgrade today, or get…

Fair warning—this one’s for the nerds. React Server Components is a programming paradigm that extends the module system to express a server/client application as a single program spanning two runtimes….

Last week, I had a live streamed conversation with Joe Savona and Dan Abramov. I’ve had many questions and concerns about React Server Components and Dan and Joe were kind…

The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he…

When an AI agent builds UI, it works from its training data and whatever happens to be in its prompt. It has no awareness of the components your team has…

March 22, 2023 by Joseph Savona, Josh Story, Lauren Tan, Mengdi Chen, Samuel Susla, Sathya Gunasekaran, Sebastian Markbåge, and Andrew Clark In React Labs posts, we write about projects in…

Two years ago, in March 2023, I published a blog post called “The End of Front-End Development”. This was right after OpenAI released its GPT-4 showcase, and the general reaction…