The Orange Cat
The Orange Cat is a massive Maine Coon with a zest for life, blending a passion for coding with a flair for storytelling. With an enthusiasm for diving into the latest web development trends, this adventurous feline eagerly explores the world of React and its libraries. When not busy with code, The Orange Cat can be found basking in sunny spots and relishing delicious treats, perfectly capturing a mix of curiosity and relaxation.
On this blog, The Orange Cat shares captivating tales from the coding universe, providing insights and reflections that inspire tech lovers. Whether you're into web development, enjoy engaging narratives, or simply have a fondness for cats, there's something here for everyone to enjoy.
The latest articles by The Orange Cat – Page 3
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HeroUI: Beautiful by Default, Customizable by Design
Building an accessible, themeable, good-looking component library from scratch is one of the most expensive things a front-end team can sign up for. HeroUI hands you all three at once.
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Remotion: Make Real Videos With React Components
If you already think in React and CSS, you already know enough to make video. Remotion treats a video as a function of a frame number and renders your components into an actual file.
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React Native Worklets: Threading the Needle Across Runtimes
Single-threaded JavaScript is the quiet bottleneck behind most janky React Native apps. react-native-worklets hands you extra threads and runtimes in plain JavaScript, no native code required.
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Zero to Sixty: Building Instant Web Apps with Rocicorp Zero
Most web apps spend their lives waiting on network round-trips. Zero flips that script by letting your queries decide what syncs, and serving reads and writes from a local store first.
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ArrowJS: Reactivity Without the Framework Tax
A look at ArrowJS, the buildless reactive runtime that leans on platform primitives instead of a compiler or a virtual DOM.
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BullMQ: The Background Job Queue Your Node Backend Has Been Begging For
Every full-stack JavaScript developer eventually hits the wall where a request handler has to do something slow. BullMQ is the battle-tested, TypeScript-first way to push that work into the background and never lose it.
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TanStack Store: The Reactive Engine Hiding in Your node_modules
There's a good chance this library is already sitting in your node_modules, pulled in by TanStack Query. Here's how to use the reactive primitive that almost nobody imports on purpose.
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Nano Stores: A State Manager So Small You Can Measure It in Bytes
State management does not have to mean a megabyte of machinery. Nano Stores proves you can ship reactive, shareable state in a few hundred bytes, and use the same stores across every framework you touch.
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React Native Reanimated DnD: Drag, Drop, and Sort at 60fps
Drag-and-drop on React Native has always been the part everyone quietly avoids. This library wants to make it the part you actually enjoy building.
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Modern.js: ByteDance's Progressive React Framework with a Rust-Powered Heart
Most full-stack React frameworks ask you to wire up a router, a data layer, a bundler, and a backend yourself. Modern.js folds all of that into one opinionated, progressively-adoptable package built on a fast Rust bundler.