| • Tanner Linsley's background as an open source software developer and entrepreneur | |
| • His transition from being an Angular fanboy to adopting React around 2014-2015 | |
| • How his experience using open source libraries, particularly Angular, led him to create his own open source projects | |
| • The creation of Nozzle, a startup that uses reverse-engineered Google search rankings | |
| • The development of the TanStack, a set of projects including react-query, react-table, and react-charts | |
| • The branding and marketing of the TanStack as a cohesive entity | |
| • Creation of the TanStack umbrella for hosting personal projects | |
| • Background on building popular libraries including React Query, React Table, and others | |
| • Managing open-source libraries as a co-founder of Nozzle and founder of individual projects | |
| • Balancing startup responsibilities with maintaining open-source libraries | |
| • Importance of contributors and maintainers in helping manage library growth | |
| • The role of react-query as a data synchronization library, not just a fetching library | |
| • React Query synchronization with remote data | |
| • Cache as a temporary mirror of remote data | |
| • Misconceptions about React Query being a GraphQL library or replacement for Axios | |
| • React Query's flexibility in handling asynchronous data sources (e.g. promises, Firebase subscriptions) | |
| • Use of custom hooks to encapsulate query logic and side effects | |
| • Automatic caching and invalidation with customizable configuration options | |
| • Aggressive but sane defaults for fetching data, prioritizing up-to-date data over network bandwidth concerns | |
| • Discussion of aggressive vs. gentle cache invalidation strategies | |
| • Configuring react-query hooks for specific caching behavior | |
| • Semi-persistent caching features and automatic garbage collection | |
| • Hiding asynchronous data complexities with react-query | |
| • Placeholder and initial data concepts for hydrating cached data | |
| • Server-side rendering (SSR) hydration and suspense support | |
| • React-query dev tools and inspiration from other libraries | |
| • Development of React dev tools with in-line styles | |
| • Transition to using TypeScript for the project and its libraries | |
| • Challenges and trade-offs of using generics and writing library TypeScript code | |
| • Discussion on the current state and improvements of TypeScript features | |
| • Introduction to react-table as a headless UI utility | |
| • Downshift utility for building autocomplete and select box experiences | |
| • React-table library evolution from component-based to headless, render-prop based design | |
| • Benefits of headless design, including customizability and flexibility | |
| • Challenges with traditional component libraries, such as styling and markup inflexibility | |
| • Features and utilities provided by react-table, including data manipulation and modeling | |
| • Comparison with other libraries and components, such as AG Grid and Material-UI table | |
| • Discussion around react-query and react-table integration | |
| • Version 8 improvements in react-table, including TypeScript support, API surface area, and performance enhancements | |
| • Controlled tables feature allowing developers to manage table state externally | |
| • Plugin system changes, with version 8 incorporating previously separate plugins into a monolithic bundle | |
| • Developer experience improvements, including better type safety and autocompletion | |
| • Open source sustainability model discussion, including sponsorship for libraries | |
| • React-table version 8 will be released in alpha and beta stages for upper and lower-level sponsors before a general public release. | |
| • Sponsorship tiers will be available through GitHub Sponsors to support the development of react-table. | |
| • The goal is to explore sustainability in open source software, prevent burnout, and ensure packages remain maintained. | |
| • A paid manifestation of an open-source entity is being considered, similar to AG Grid or Remix. |