week-28.md

Library Updates

• Flow 0.98 released

Around React

• Microsoft is launches react native on windows. This means that we can write UWP apps with react-native and run it with react-native run-windows. Will need to run on windows to build though.
• web.dev added a collection of articles for react performance improvement
• Upcoming facebook redesign will be fully powered by React & Relay (Watch the video)

Community

• React Finland happened, here is a recap
• Seems that ReactJS Girls that happened May 2 & 3 in London was pretty awesome, Dan's thread
  • They had a nice poster and a hoodie, a gorgeous opening with a Windows 95 theme. Eve Porcello was the emcee. She rocked it with some hilarious stats that you should absolutely see.
  • A few talks of interests:
    • Building a Design System with React, by Emma Wedekind
    • The How and Why of Flexible React Components, by Jenn Creighton, slides, video
    • Storybook: A React Native Love Story, by Erin Fox, slides, video: Whys and hows of their team building their UI components library using Storybook.
    • Empathy Driven Development, by Marcy Sutton, GitHub repo, video: Fixing accessibility issues, and building automated tests for them.
    • Life is hard and so is learning GraphQL, by Carolyn Stransky, slides, video: Talks about her learning journey about GraphQL, and things that can be done better about its documentation. Pointers to some resources on learning GraghQL as well.