react-hook-lab

Multi-Tab State Sync Made Easy: Introducing useSharedState in react-hook-lab! If you've ever had to build a web application where users open multiple tabs, you know the struggle of keeping state synchronized. Whether it's a shopping cart, user preferences, or live dashboard configurations, manual synchronization using localStorage events or WebSockets can quickly turn into a boilerplate-heavy headache. Today, I'm thrilled to share a major feature update to react-hook-lab : the introduction of the useSharedState hook! This release also includes some source-tree spring cleaning to ensure a lighter, cleaner library. What's New: Multi-Tab State Synchronization 🔄 The star of this release is the new useSharedState hook. This hook allows you to seamlessly share and synchronize state across multiple browser tabs or windows in real-time, completely out of the box. Under the hood, useSharedState is powered by a robust, custom-engineered sync engine: BroadcastChannel Transpor...

Every open-source journey has its experimental phases! In our latest update to react-hook-lab , we did some behind-the-scenes housekeeping, which included testing and ultimately rolling back an experimental feature to keep our codebase clean and stable. What's Changed? Experimental Rollback: We drafted a new useStep hook designed for managing multi-step wizard forms. However, after further review, we decided to remove the useStep hook from this release. This allows us to refine its API and ensure it meets our quality standards before a public launch. Internal Housekeeping: We cleaned up our central index exports to align with this rollback, ensuring a stable and reliable package for all users. Why It Matters Our commitment with react-hook-lab is to deliver lightweight, high-quality, and predictable React hooks. If a hook isn't 100% ready or clean, we believe it's better to step back, clean up the codebase, and ship it only when it's fully polished. St...

Behind the Scenes: Secure Prompt Management in react-hook-lab As open-source maintainers, we love automation. In our react-hook-lab project, we use automated workflows to help compile release summaries and share updates with the community. Today, we pushed a small, internal maintenance update focused entirely on securing and optimizing our automated CI/CD tooling. What's Changed? This update does not add or modify any of the React hooks in the library itself. Instead, it hardens and streamlines our internal automation scripts: Secure Environment Loading: We moved our release summary AI prompts out of the repository's codebase and into a secure, environment-driven workflow using GitHub Secrets ( SECRET_AI_PROMPT ). Dynamic Templating: Our publishing scripts now dynamically load, validate, and parse this template at runtime, injecting code changes cleanly. Optimized CI Logic: We added early exit checks to gracefully stop execution with zero-status codes if no ch...