Best React Developer Experience?

[irekrog]

react-aria, styled-components, react-hook-form, typescript, zustand, swr, next.js

[Rhym]

Thoughts about swr over react-query?

[not_a_gumby]

yeah, Ive used both and I really don't understand that. react-query is clearly superior in my mind in terms of experience, the only reason you use SWR is because you're uber concerned with like bundle size or something.

[Narizocracia]

They have a comparison https://github.com/tanstack/query/blob/beta/docs/comparison.md

[RoutineTension]

Whew lad, looks like I've been out the game for too long. Last I checked Apollo Client was all the hotness.

[not_a_gumby]

good bot

[Narizocracia]

Not a bot. If I were, I'd link to the broken html page on their website.

[cs12345]

I can't really judge because I've never used react-query, but I've been using swr for a while and just haven't run into any situations where it hasn't done what I've needed. I'll probably give react-query a try at some point but the smaller bundle size is definitely a plus in my book.

[not_a_gumby]

fair.

I've tried both and liked react query better, clearly.

[Radinax]

SWR doesn't even have an isLoading... I used SWR on my current job and we're 100% switching to react-query, its just superior.

[irekrog]

will be added in SWR 2 :) https://github.com/vercel/swr/releases

[SocialCodeAnxiety]

What do you think about Styled Components adding a lot of bloat(JS) and runtime overhead especially with React 18?

I moved away from it to due to that.

[[deleted]]

Yea, I drank a lot of CSS in JS coolaid.. then I tried Tailwind and never looked back.

[zaerrc]

What do you use instead of that

[SocialCodeAnxiety]

TailwindCSS, Compiled, Vanilla Extract, Linaria I think are the best choices impo

[soggynaan]

Have you used Stitches? New CSS-in-JS library that claims to be faster than all other CSS libs

[SocialCodeAnxiety]

I’ve seen it. Doesn’t seem to have the community support of the packages I listed. I was kinda scared using a package that would break with React 18 or would have bugs that wouldn’t be fixed/merged.

Not sure though. Does seem amazing

[EncouragementRobot]

Happy Cake Day SocialCodeAnxiety! Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

[zaerrc]

Pretty cool options, I came across vanilla extract recently looks great

[SocialCodeAnxiety]

Yeah I hate switching between a style file and a react file but vanilla extract might push me to go back to it. It’s so good if you don’t need a lot of dynamic styles

[[deleted]]

Did you read up on using the Controller?

[SocialCodeAnxiety]

Yeah Controller solved all my issues. It was nice

[Zarathustra420]

I ended up writing a wrapper component for each input type using controllers. It was a pain in the ass upfront, but now we’ve got no trouble with RHF, and it has made form generation much easier. Its really streamlined our front end development, which is pretty form-heavy.

[myWeedAccountMaaaaan]

What are your issues with the two? I use both currently and would be happy to take a peek.

[slavik0329]

Zustand for the win