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
3 articles from 2025 · show all
October 2025
React, HTMX, and TanStack/Start
More and more UI frameworks are ditching JSON as the transfer protocol and going back to server-rendered markup injected into your app
September 2025
You may be looking for a useSyncExternalStore
When you see a `useEffect` that updates a `useState` and returns a value, you might be looking for a `useSyncExternalStore`. This is my current vendetta.
January 2025
Server-side React that renders as png, pdf, or interactive webapp
What if your React code could render as a PNG, PDF, static HTML, or fully interactive webapp just by changing the URL? I got a working demo! 😁