Take your React beyond the tutorial

React is here to stay. It solves many problems you may not even know existed. These essays are the good stuff I learned over the years.

Learning from tutorials is easy. You follow some steps, learn a smol lesson, and feel like you got dis 💪

Then comes the interview, a real world problem, or a question from the boss. Your mind goes blank. Shit, how does this work again ...

Happens to everyone. Building is harder than recognizing and the real world is a mess! Nothing fits in neat little boxes you learned about in tutorials.

That's where my emails come in – lessons from experience. Building production software :)

Leave your email and get the React email Series - a series of curated essays on building with React. Borne from experience, seasoned with over 12+ years of hands-on practice building the engineering side of growing SaaS companies.

Latest React articles from Swizec

5 articles from 2024 · show all

November 2024

The anatomy of a React Island

A coworker asked how React Islands work and I realized it's a technique I've been using to modernize monolithic web codebases for years, but never wrote down how it works.

August 2024

Tips from 8 months of TanStack/Router in production

On my last day at Tia I wrote a master vision doc for our TanStack Router app. Here are the parts I can share.

May 2024

Why useSuspenseQuery works

A reader asked 'Wtf why does this work?'

Cleaner components with useSuspenseQuery

Sick of complex states in your code? React Suspense can simplify your components for more readable, robust code!

January 2024

TanStack Router – modern React for the rest of us

TanStack Router puts the router in control of data, state, and UI and it's ... really good.