Dan Abramov

1. Hire Me in Japan

   I'm looking for a new job.

   Published Tue, Nov 11, 2025

2. How to Fix Any Bug

   The joys of vibecoding.

   Published Tue, Oct 21, 2025

3. Where It's at://

   From handles to hosting.

   Published Thu, Oct 2, 2025

4. Open Social

   The protocol is the API.

   Published Fri, Sep 26, 2025

5. A Lean Syntax Primer

   Programming with proofs.

   Published Tue, Sep 2, 2025

6. Beyond Booleans

   What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?

   Published Sat, Aug 16, 2025

7. The Math Is Haunted

   A taste of Lean.

   Published Wed, Jul 30, 2025

8. Suppressions of Suppressions

   I heard you like linting.

   Published Wed, Jun 11, 2025

9. I'm Doing a Little Consulting

   Personal update post.

   Published Wed, Jun 11, 2025

10. How Imports Work in RSC

    A layered module system.

    Published Thu, Jun 5, 2025

11. RSC for LISP Developers

    Quoting for modules.

    Published Sun, Jun 1, 2025

12. Progressive JSON

    Why streaming isn't enough.

    Published Sat, May 31, 2025

13. Why Does RSC Integrate with a Bundler?

    One does not simply serialize a module.

    Published Fri, May 30, 2025

14. One Roundtrip Per Navigation

    What do HTML, GraphQL, and RSC have in common?

    Published Thu, May 29, 2025

15. Static as a Server

    You wouldn't download a site.

    Published Thu, May 8, 2025

16. RSC for Astro Developers

    Islands, but make it fractal.

    Published Tue, May 6, 2025

17. Functional HTML

    Tags on both sides.

    Published Fri, May 2, 2025

18. What Does "use client" Do?

    Two worlds, two doors.

    Published Fri, Apr 25, 2025

19. Impossible Components

    Composing across the stack.

    Published Tue, Apr 22, 2025

20. JSX Over The Wire

    Turning your API inside-out.

    Published Wed, Apr 16, 2025

21. React for Two Computers

    Two things, one origin.

    Published Wed, Apr 9, 2025

22. The Two Reacts

    UI = f(data)(state)

    Published Thu, Jan 4, 2024

23. A Chain Reaction

    The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

    Published Mon, Dec 11, 2023

24. npm audit: Broken by Design

    Found 99 vulnerabilities (84 moderately irrelevant, 15 highly irrelevant)

    Published Wed, Jul 7, 2021

25. Before You memo()

    Rendering optimizations that come naturally.

    Published Tue, Feb 23, 2021

26. The WET Codebase

    Come waste your time with me.

    Published Mon, Jul 13, 2020

27. Goodbye, Clean Code

    Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

    Published Sat, Jan 11, 2020

28. My Decade in Review

    A personal reflection.

    Published Wed, Jan 1, 2020

29. What Are the React Team Principles?

    UI Before API.

    Published Wed, Dec 25, 2019

30. On let vs const

    So which one should I use?

    Published Sun, Dec 22, 2019

31. What Is JavaScript Made Of?

    Getting a closure on JavaScript.

    Published Fri, Dec 20, 2019

32. How Does the Development Mode Work?

    Dead code elimination by convention.

    Published Sun, Aug 4, 2019

33. Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

    They’re not burritos.

    Published Sun, Jul 21, 2019

34. Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 3: Content

    Turning an idea into a talk.

    Published Wed, Jul 10, 2019

35. Name It, and They Will Come

    A change starts with a story.

    Published Mon, Mar 25, 2019

36. Writing Resilient Components

    Four principles to set you on the right path.

    Published Sat, Mar 16, 2019

37. A Complete Guide to useEffect

    Effects are a part of your data flow.

    Published Sat, Mar 9, 2019

38. How Are Function Components Different from Classes?

    They’re a whole different Pokémon.

    Published Sun, Mar 3, 2019

39. Coping with Feedback

    Sometimes I can’t fall asleep.

    Published Sat, Mar 2, 2019

40. Fix Like No One’s Watching

    The other kind of technical debt.

    Published Fri, Feb 15, 2019

41. Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks

    How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.

    Published Mon, Feb 4, 2019

42. React as a UI Runtime

    An in-depth description of the React programming model.

    Published Sat, Feb 2, 2019

43. Why Isn’t X a Hook?

    Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

    Published Sat, Jan 26, 2019

44. The “Bug-O” Notation

    What is the 🐞(n) of your API?

    Published Fri, Jan 25, 2019

45. Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How

    We need to go deeper.

    Published Mon, Jan 7, 2019

46. The Elements of UI Engineering

    What makes UI engineering difficult?

    Published Sun, Dec 30, 2018

47. Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

    We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.

    Published Fri, Dec 28, 2018

48. Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 1: Motivation

    Here’s my recipe for a good talk idea.

    Published Wed, Dec 26, 2018

49. Why Do React Hooks Rely on Call Order?

    Lessons learned from mixins, render props, HOCs, and classes.

    Published Thu, Dec 13, 2018

50. Optimized for Change

    What makes a great API?

    Published Wed, Dec 12, 2018

51. How Does setState Know What to Do?

    Dependency injection is nice if you don’t have to think about it.

    Published Sun, Dec 9, 2018

52. My Wishlist for Hot Reloading

    I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need.

    Published Sat, Dec 8, 2018

53. Why Do React Elements Have a $$typeof Property?

    It has something to do with security.

    Published Mon, Dec 3, 2018

54. How Does React Tell a Class from a Function?

    We talk about classes, new, instanceof, prototype chains, and API design.

    Published Sun, Dec 2, 2018

55. Why Do We Write super(props)?

    There’s a twist at the end.

    Published Fri, Nov 30, 2018