In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about what they wish existed in React!
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Show Notes React
03:53 - Unmount delay for animation
06:20 - Suspense with SSR released (or not because I think they are shelving it)
09:24 - File based components
- Like Svelte and Vue
- This would look like a file with a special scoped tag per page.
11:50 - Prevent Default shortcuts
13:00 - No more useIsoLayoutEffect
- useLayoutEffect on SSR should just work without a custom hook
- Simple data fetching strategy based on promises
15:52 - Recommended hooks
- E.g. "here is the best way to do things"
- Official list of best practice hooks
18:25 - A good form strategy
- Bind inputs to state directly without any change handlers
- Inputs and forms all around need more magic - it's painful
20:43 - Write once deploy everywhere
- Not likely ever
- E.g. automatic transformation into react-native (obviously not going to happen)
22:28 - Compile time directives
25:11 - Slots instead of children
- Allows for things like named slots more explicit than children
JSX
26:44 - Removal of htmlFor, className and all other abominations of html
29:09 - Import Raact from React for JSX to work
32:31 - Better conditional / if statement syntax
33:09 - Fragments by default
- Just do it for us - the error message already knows
33:54 - Automatic key ids
- If mapping an object, check for common _id or id
36:36 - Simple scoped CSS built in
37:29 - Short hand for props with same name is prop={prop}
39:00 - Prop interpolation without backticks: name="$first $last"
- Or just backticks without brackets name=${first} ${last} instead of name={${first} ${last}}
Tooling
39:43 - Story for typescript/prettier/babel
40:11 - Automatic a href client side routing
41:51 - Scaffolding and component generation
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