943: Modern React with Ricky Hanlon (React Core Dev)

Scott and Wes sit down with Ricky Hanlon from the React core team at Facebook to dive into the latest features and APIs shaping modern React development. From transitions and Suspense to fetching strategies and future directions, this episode breaks down what’s next for React and how developers can take advantage of it.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!

01:20 Who is Ricky Hanlon.

02:10 Setting the Stage: Modern React APIs

02:48 Brought to you by Sentry.io.

03:12 Defining Transitions in React

05:08 Practical Examples of Scheduling.

08:23 useDeferredValue.

09:30 Suspense.

11:13 Fallbacks and animations.

12:35 How do you get psychological performance data?

13:39 Are these considerations reasonable for the average dev?

15:37 useOptimistic.

17:35 Removing delayMs (referred to as maxDuration in later iterations).

19:49 How to fetch data in React.

21:58 Is React now just Nextjs?

23:23 Will React give us a Signals-based state management?

24:44 The challenges of building in public.

30:12 Making LLMs cooperate with React.

32:05 The lifting will happen at framework level.

32:59 This is not time slicing.

35:47 Sick Pick + Shameless Plug.

Sick Picks

Ricky: iPhone 17 Pro

Shameless Plugs

Ricky: https://conf.react.dev/

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