• 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.