#22: Avoid Component Fetching, Server Actions or APIs, Why RSCs, Safe Server Action, Automated Testing

Making Sense of React Server Components – This is one of the most detailed articles I've come across about RSCs. Josh does an excellent job with lots of helpful visualizations and straightforward explanations to show how RSCs work and why they are needed

Forms and Mutations – New docs page dropped! Explains how to revalidate cached data, redirecting, error and loading state and more

Challenging Established Norms: Making Component Fetching the Exception – The main idea: While it's possible to fetch data in every React Component, it's not always the best approach and why moving data fetching up to the route layer can create a more scalable and easier-to-manage structure

Should I Use Server Actions Or APIs? – Learn which one to use depending on your requirements

Preview Builds for NextJS using SST and AWS – This guide is for all the “self-hosting” readers! Implement your own preview builds system for your Next.js application using Github Actions, AWS and SST

Retaining Chat History Using LangChain and Upstash Redis – Short and clear tutorial about how to implement long-term persistence of LangChain chat conversations. The chat app is built with Next.js and Vercel’s AI SDK

Next.Nav – A VS Code extension for navigating and creating routes easily in your Next.js application

next-safe-action – Deals with input-validation and error handling when using Server Actions

WhoCanUse – Awesome tool! Learn how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments. (…also it’s built with Next.js)

rediscord – Usually I don’t share app clones but this Discord look-alike is so well made with such an attention to detail that I had to. It’s built with Next.js 13 and TailwindCSS

How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler – Cron jobs have been available on Vercel for a while. This blog post tells the backstory of how two adventurous engineers joined forces to bring this feature to all Vercel customers in just 2 months 🥹

Why React re-renders? And, when do we need to worry about it? – Love this! Learn about re-rendering in React in just 12 slides

Current state of state management – It's been quiet on the topic of state management in React lately. Do we still require state management libraries? This post digs into that question

A Wide View of Automated Testing in React Apps – This is a great addition to the React Handbook! Learn how to test all the different kinds of React components and how to make your components more testable