The release of React 16 was a huge deal for the React community. Aside from rewriting the entire internal architecture, React 16 brings an exciting array of new and exciting features. This will talk will be a hands on demonstration of all the new features of React 16, showing what they are, and how they will make your React applications better and more pleasant to write.

CONTENTS

0:05 - Intro
0:54 - About Harry
1:47 - Shameless plug
3:00 - React 16: So, what’s the big deal?
3:50 - React Fiber
4:55 - Async rendering
7:03 - Server-side rendering
7:30 - Let’s code
25:59 - New render return types: String and Fragments
26:09 - Fragment component with JSX syntax
26:14 - Portals
26:20 - Error Boundaries
25:25 - Fiber
27:07 - Questions

RESOURCES

https://theconsolelog.com - Blog
https://hswolff.github.io/playground/react-16-new-features - Source code
https://hswolff.com - Personal site