r/webdev • u/swellconstellations • Sep 26 '17

React 16

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/09/26/react-v16.0.html
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u/Soccham Sep 26 '17

tl;dr

  • Changed to MIT License

  • Render function can now return fragments/arrays and strings

  • Portals built in

  • Better Error handling + error boundaries

  • custom DOM attribute support

  • Smaller file size (react + react dom are 109kb/34.8kb gzipped, down from 161.7kb/49.8kb gzipped)

  • Better server-side rendering (completely rewritten server renderer, 3x faster)

  • New Core Architecture, same client facing API

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u/Uknight Sep 27 '17

Portals are dope. /u/ryanflorence talked about them all the way back in Feb 2015

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '17

tl:dr on portals?

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u/Uknight Sep 27 '17

Render a component somewhere else in the DOM, instead of where it is in the component hierarchy.

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u/chrisrazor Sep 27 '17 
Syntax error. ';' expected

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u/Not_a_spambot Sep 27 '17

Error boundaries are heeeeeere you guys I've been waiting for this for so long

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u/demar_derozan_ Sep 27 '17

I'm really excited to see how asynchronous rendering works. Anyone know when that's going into beta/being released? The link says in the coming months..

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u/Soccham Sep 27 '17

https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/909926793536094209

Here's a preview tweet from the article with an example of it working.

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u/pureboy Sep 27 '17

No, Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '17

No good sir, said license has been changed.

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u/Soccham Sep 26 '17

yup, I'm just expecting complaints regardless even though I enjoy using all of the big 3.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '17

Nobody complains on Reddit.

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u/poop_city_paradise Sep 26 '17

More like insert snarky first comment without actually reading the updates :)