Hey React Native 🩵 Developers,
The biggest React Conference, React Conf 2024 organized by Meta and Callstack, wrapped up recently. It was a two-day event that started on May 15th, filled with exciting talks. One of the most exciting talks was on ❝ React Router V7 announced as Remix ❞. Today, we will explore more details about it! 🚀
So, Ryan Florence has introduced the world to React Router V7. In this new version 7, the Remix team has integrated Vite Plugin (a modern front-end build tool) with React Router. As a result, if you are using React Router V7 in your project, all these features will become available to you.
- Automatic code splitting
- Simplified data loading
- Form Actions, Server actions
- Simplified pending states
- Optimistic UI (UI acts before server confirms action)
- Server rendering
- Static pre-rendering (Builds static pages early for speed/SEO)
- RSC (React Server Component) coming soon
To know more about it, let’s first understand what React Router is.
React Router is the core library that provides the fundamental building blocks for routing in React applications. It contains components like Route, Switch, and Router that are essential for managing routes in any React project.
react-router-dom is the library that react team uses as the default routing library in react projects. It includes everything from React Router plus more features that are useful for web applications (Ex: BrowserRouter and Link).
Both React Router & react-router-dom were built by the Remix team.
In October 2023, the remix team integrated Vite with Remix (a full-stack web framework built on top of React Router). Then, in February 2024, the team announced Vite Plugin as stable in Remix v2.7.0.
At this point, Remix is just a Vite plugin that makes React Router more convenient to use and deploy. Outside of the plugin, Remix pretty much just re-exports React Router.
After integrating Vite Plugin with Remix framework, the team observed that React Router is already being used by more than 7 million projects and 5 million lines of the Shopify app. Therefore, the team didn’t want the developers of these projects to have to rewrite code to import Remix to achieve the features listed above.
So, they again took a new plan to help these millions of developers by remixing React Router. They just integrated Vite Plugin with React Router which means React Router is getting everything great about Remix (and more!) in the V7.
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I'm Anis, Sr. React Native Engineer and the author of React Native Advanced Guide Book with 1.7K STAR ⭐️. Over 5 years in React Native and Full Stack, I’ve built numerous production-grade apps. You can 🩵 CONNECT me in X for any consultation.