March 2021

This blows me away, just like Zustand which makes state management very simple immer implements immutability in the way it had always wanted to be implemented.

State management in react as it is most commonly spread among devs is suboptimal, I would say. I just looked up my first react app, it's from 2014 and we used react to make working with HTML in a "normal" DOM based page easier and code more readable. React didn't control all the page. We used jQuery to animate between the pages, where each page was a react component. Nowadays a react app tries to get the entire app to be react as quickly as possible. Has it turned around, against us?

I have been digging a little bit into Hermes (a mobile first JS engine) focused on React Native. Since I shared most of it on twitter, I want to "copy" the content here to persist it for me, I know I am coming back to this eventually and this way I get up to speed faster.

React Native (RN) 0.64 was just released. One of the things I had stumbled upon more often lately in RN code was the word "hermes". I didn't know what kinda tool or package that was. Until I informed myself a bit.
In short: Hermes is a mobile optimized JavaScript engine.