👀 Fix useImperativeHandle Without Dependencies

The useImperativeHandle hook now properly behaves like no dependencies were set when the second argument is omitted.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14801

📌 React v16.8.2 Patch Release

This release brings bug fixes and stability improvements around hooks and other features.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1682-february-14-2019

📌 Add eslint-plugin-react-hooks/exhaustive-deps

The ESLint plugin for React hooks now has a new exhaustive-deps rule that verifies that the proper dependency array is specified. It also warns when assigning a to variable from an outside closure.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14636

🤹‍♀️ act() Examples

Sunil (threepointone) created notes that explains the necessity of the new act() API for writing tests that should resemble production behavior.

https://github.com/threepointone/react-act-examples

🗺 RFC: createElement Changes

A new RFC outlines changes to React.createElement() that simplifies the object representation and will also allow forwardRef to be removed in the future.

https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/107

🌍 New React Internationalization Repo: Greek

The list of internationalization repos is still growing. This week, we’re adding the Greek repository.

https://github.com/reactjs/el.reactjs.org

🕳 Deal with Fallback Content in Partial Hydration

This PR allows a dehydrated suspense boundary to be in three possible states (as encoded with different comment nodes).

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14884

🐞 Fix UMD Builds by Re-exporting the Scheduler Priorities

A recent regression caused the v16.8.2 release to break input elements when using the UMD build. This was fixed by properly exporting the Scheduler priorities.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14914

📌 React v16.8.3 Patch Release

This release fixes several bugs around React DOM.

https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.8.3

🌏 Is React Translated Yet? ¡Sí! Sim! はい！

A new blog post explains the React documentation internationalization effort and mentions the first three live websites: Spanish, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese.

https://reactjs.org/blog/2019/02/23/is-react-translated-yet.html

💼 RFC: Focus Management API

Devon Govett (devongovett) worked on an RFC for a new API to improve focus handling in React. Feedback welcome!

https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/109

⏱ Add New Mock Build of Scheduler

To control the Scheduler queue in test environments, a new mock version of the Scheduler was added.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14964

🌎 React Docs Language Switcher

With the release of the first three localizations (see above), the documentations now also feature a language switcher

https://reactjs.org/languages

🛠 DevTools: Support Editable useState Hooks

To allow a future DevTools version to edit useState hooks, a new overrideHookState was added to work with react-debug-tools.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14906

🌍 6 New React Internationalization Repos

With six new internationalization repos added last week, we’re now at a total of 38. This week brings:
- Gujarati: reactjs/gu.reactjs.org
- Central Khmer: reactjs/km.reactjs.org
- Kurdish: reactjs/ku.reactjs.org
- Lithuanian: reactjs/lt.reactjs.org
- Telugu: reactjs/te.reactjs.org
- Urdu: reactjs/ur.reactjs.org

⏳ Scheduler: Pass didTimeout to Callbacks

To avoid unnecessary checks to shouldYield, Scheduler callbacks now receive a didTimeout argument.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14931

🎣 ESLint: Allow Extraneous Effect Dependencies

In the ESLint rule for hooks, it’s now allowed to pass dependencies that are not used inside the effect to the dependency array. Check out the PR for an example of when this is useful.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14967

⚓️ ESLint: More Cases For exhaustive-deps Rule

This PR improves messaging for when you try to pass literals. Additionally it now warns when ref.current is used in an effect cleanup that it assumes is a component ref.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14930

📌 ESLint: Allow Omitting Constant Primitive Deps

The eslint-plugin-react-hooks/exhaustive-deps lint rule now allows you to omit defining constant primitives (e.g. const a = 123;) in the dependencies array if you close over them.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14959

🐛 Fix Compatibility Between react-debug-tools and useContext()

react-debug-tools is an experimental package for debugging React renderers. This PR fixes a bug that was causing issues with this package and useContext().

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/14940

🔎 eslint-plugin-react-hooks v1.5.0

The ESLint plugin exhaustive-deps is now in a good shape to be adopted in most projects. Install it and report back any issues! A few of the changes can be found down below.

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1103744582074990594