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React v18.0 Release - Concurrent Rendering and New Features
Key Points
- Concurrent rendering enables interruptible UI updates
- Automatic batching improves performance across all event types
- Transitions API separates urgent from non-urgent updates
Summary
React 18 introduces concurrent rendering as its foundational update, enabling React to prepare multiple UI versions simultaneously and interrupt rendering for better performance. The release includes automatic batching, transitions API, and enhanced Suspense capabilities.
Key Points
- Concurrent Rendering: New behind-the-scenes mechanism that makes rendering interruptible, allowing React to pause and resume work without blocking the main thread
- Automatic Batching: Groups multiple state updates into single re-renders, now working in timeouts, promises, and native event handlers
- Transitions API: New
startTransitionanduseTransitionAPIs to distinguish between urgent updates (clicks, typing) and non-urgent updates (search results) - Enhanced Suspense: Improved data fetching support in frameworks like Next.js, Relay, and Remix
- Gradual Adoption: Concurrent features are opt-in and only enabled when using specific APIs
- StrictMode Updates: Enhanced to help detect concurrency-related bugs during development
- Server Components: Still experimental but designed to work with concurrent features