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Ricky @ricky.fm · Aug 12

Great read from @leerob.com

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Reflections on the React community | Lee Robinson

Some thoughts after working with React for 10 years.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jul 18

Thank you 🖤

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leerob @leerob.com · Jul 18

I want to help developers become an order of magnitude more productive, and help more people contribute to building software.

This is going to take a *lot* of education and retraining. So expect more videos soon, and if you have ideas for what I should teach, let me know!

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leerob @leerob.com · Jul 18

This is why some experienced devs are having a great time with AI. They can ask for a pattern like "add an exponential backoff" instead of “make it more robust to errors” which may or may not work.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jul 18

3. We need to help developers become even more competent. AI may end up writing most of your code, but you have to review, understand, and maintain that software.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jul 18

2. We need to teach experienced developers how AI can automate the tedious parts of coding, or save them time reading docs and fixing bugs.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jul 18

I'm joining Cursor to teach the future of coding!

There are millions of developers learning how to use AI and they need pragmatic advice:

1. We need to teach new developers strong foundations, so they know what to learn, and how to solve issues when debugging.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 15

ICYMI he has them in a playlist, in order you should watch

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 15

Thank you - I appreciate the correction because it’s not the first time I’ve had to debunk “Vercel pays a bunch of DevRels to push Next”

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 14

Quite a few do, and I also agree that you don’t need to use it. Client react is okay too.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 14

DevRel is me and Delba for Next. For docs, we just hired a new person Joseph.

The DevRel team has never been larger than 5 people over the years 🤔

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 13

1. Browsers handle title/metdata outside of <head> just fine
2. We haven't seen any SEO impact (this is the same pattern sites like Amazon use, it's not novel)
3. It's not Vercel specific (this is standard `next start` behavior)
4. This was a community requested feature

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 13

The post is FUD. I don't have the energy to write up a long response on why yet, but it's simply not accurate.

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leerob @leerob.com · Jun 10

We can't 😭 It's a GitHub limitation

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leerob @leerob.com · May 31

Glad to hear it! Yeah the new stateless protocol is much better.

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leerob @leerob.com · May 31

Yeah but the story is even easier. You can run compute, either before or after the cache. That’s p much it

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leerob @leerob.com · May 30

Still cooking in this PR github.com/vercel/next....

Add `exports` to `package.json` by eps1lon · Pull Request #68455 · vercel/next.js

Closes https://linear.app/vercel/issue/NDX-167 Testing first assumption that './*': './*.js' is a backwards compatible exports entry. issues Turbopack bundles react-dom/server in E...

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leerob @leerob.com · May 28

Writing has been on the wall for a while, just finally starting to slowly roll out example updates, followed by actually deprecating the product soon (and change management)

We moved forward with Fluid compute instead

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leerob @leerob.com · May 26

`dynamic` can be the entire route. Make your `page.tsx` file render the `<Route>` component and use `dynamic`.

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leerob @leerob.com · May 25

nextjs.org/docs/app/gui...

Guides: SPAs | Next.js

Next.js fully supports building Single-Page Applications (SPAs).

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leerob @leerob.com · May 19

Can you share what issues you saw so we can fix?

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leerob @leerob.com · May 13

What docs are you referring to? I don't believe we show this anywhere

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leerob @leerob.com · May 12

Vercel for the backend is Vercel 😁

Can deploy APIs, connect to databases/queues with first-party integrations, built-in logging/observability.

And can also bring & use your backend frameworks (e.g. Express, Hono, etc)

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leerob @leerob.com · May 11

You can also have v0 generate vanilla HTML if you don’t want React stuff. Also can ask it for Svelte.

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leerob @leerob.com · May 10

Andrew has made some massive improvements to prefetching, including fetching segments. It's under an experimental flag `clientSegmentCache`.

x.com/acdlite/stat...

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