
55: Erik Rasmussen on Final Form
07/18/19 • 49 min
This week we sit with Erik Rasmussen to discuss forms in React.
We talk about his library redux-form and it's evolution to final-form — a framework agnostic approach to making dynamic forms easy.
Along the way the talk open source maintenance and monetization struggles.
If you've wanted open source fame, this is a good one to listen to.
Featuring
Links
- Github Sponsors — Fund your work. Build what matters.
- Forms — React Docs
- Redux Form — The best way to manage your form state in Redux
- Flux — Application architecture for building user interfaces
- react-final-form — 🏁 High performance subscription-based form state management for React
- vue-final-form — 🏁 High performance subscription-based form state management for Vue.js
- frontier-forms — Data-driven forms that let you focus on what matters: your application
- Build forms with GraphQL — 2019 React Europe talk by Charly Poly
- "Let a hundred flowers bloom"
- CodeFund — Ethical Advertising
- Seek Justice Podcast — A weekly deep dive into Criminal Justice with Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz
- Happy Hour — A candid and open weekly discussion between Dennis and Erik over drinks
- 💥 Introducing.... 🏁 React Final Form HOOKS!! 💥
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This week we sit with Erik Rasmussen to discuss forms in React.
We talk about his library redux-form and it's evolution to final-form — a framework agnostic approach to making dynamic forms easy.
Along the way the talk open source maintenance and monetization struggles.
If you've wanted open source fame, this is a good one to listen to.
Featuring
Links
- Github Sponsors — Fund your work. Build what matters.
- Forms — React Docs
- Redux Form — The best way to manage your form state in Redux
- Flux — Application architecture for building user interfaces
- react-final-form — 🏁 High performance subscription-based form state management for React
- vue-final-form — 🏁 High performance subscription-based form state management for Vue.js
- frontier-forms — Data-driven forms that let you focus on what matters: your application
- Build forms with GraphQL — 2019 React Europe talk by Charly Poly
- "Let a hundred flowers bloom"
- CodeFund — Ethical Advertising
- Seek Justice Podcast — A weekly deep dive into Criminal Justice with Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz
- Happy Hour — A candid and open weekly discussion between Dennis and Erik over drinks
- 💥 Introducing.... 🏁 React Final Form HOOKS!! 💥
Sponser
Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team.
It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity.
GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.
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54: Get Access with Aaron Cannon
This week, we talk accessibility pitfalls with Aaron Canon.
Aaron is the co-founder and chief accessibility engineer at Accessible360 — where he uses his experience as a blind developer to improve real-world accessibility for all citizens of the web.
He shares his first-hand experience on which practices work, which ones are bogus, where to focus our accessibility efforts, and which libraries provide the best starting point.
I learned a ton. You will too.
Featuring
Links
- Accessible360 — The digital accessibility company
- JAWS — The world’s most popular screen reader
- NVDA — Free, popular screen reader
- Aaron's YouTube channel
- Accessible360's YouTube channel
- Should I Use A Carousel?
- Reach UI — The accessible foundation of your React-based design system
- WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #7 Results
- ARIA Live Regions Screen Reader Demo | Video
- uBlock — A Fast and Efficient Ad Blocker. Easy on CPU and Memory.
Sponser
GitPrime
Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team.
It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity.
GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.
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56: Paul Henschel on React Spring
This week, on React Podcast, We sit with Paul Henschel and talk animation.
Paul is the creator of React-spring a library for animating UI based on spring physics.
We talk about the library's origin, its future, and how to create lasting beauty on the web.
Featuring
Links
- paranoid android — a custom ROM aiming to extend the system, working on enhancing the already existing beauty of Android and following the same design philosophies that were set forward by Google for Android Open Source Project
- ReactCSSTransitionGroup — an easy way to perform CSS transitions and animations when a React component enters or leaves the DOM
- ReactTransitionGroup — ReactTransitionGroup is the basis for animations in React
- ReactMotion — A spring that solves your animation problems
- Animated
- react-use-geature — 👇Bread n butter utility for component-tied mouse/touch gestures in React
- react-three-fiber—👌A React-renderer for Three.js
- react-reconciler — an experimental package for creating custom React renderers
- awwwards — The awards of design, creativity and innovation on the internet
- Three.js Fundamentals —
- react-blessed — A react renderer for blessed
- React Podcast episode 35 with Matt Perry on Pose and Popmotion
- alec larson's react europe talk
- React-spring: on animations and hooks — Alec Larson @alecdotbiz at ReactEurope 2019
Sponser
Visit Gitprime.com/20patterns to get your free, printed copy of 20 Patterns to Watch for in Your Engineering Team.
It's beautifully illustrated and guaranteed to improve your teams communication and productivity.
GitPrime aggregates historical git data into easy to understand insights and reports, to help make engineering teams more successful. Debug your development processes with objective data. Identify bottlenecks, compare trends, and keep a pulse on the health of your software teams.
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