useActionState in React 19 ft Sam Selikoff

So today we're talking about react actions with Sam sikov you might know Sam from his uh conference talks in react in nextcon or Telvin marriage or you might know him from his YouTube channel with the amazing content he creates or the frontend first podcast with Ryan or from his amazing platform build UI where he publishes courses around react animations and Telvin and stuff so Sam thank you very much for joining me thanks so much man I'm excited yeah I'm glad to have you man I

met you in person uh actually watched one of your two of your talks in person the talin marriage in Canada and where you talked about lots of cool T and tricks uh I love just watching you work with tail and Men I I want to just watch over your shoulder how you used your keyboard um and also I saw you on next year's conf with the with the talk you had there and uh I

look up to you man when you have such a cool calm and confidence Cadence to your talks it's amazing thank you man I really appreciate that um it's funny a lot of folks on YouTube talk about uh the editor stuff too so I know that there is like a VM vs codes course tricks patterns thing in my future it's going to happen for sure but um yeah I appreciate the kind words man absolutely man okay so before we dive into um react

actions and unpack what they are in react 19 and how it ties uh back to maybe a framework like uh nextjs several components but also outside of that um why don't we talk about have a little introduction about your journey into this and now ending up uh working on front frontend first Frameworks like react and nextjs yeah so I started out in PHP

actually around 2012 maybe 2013 kind of learned how to code back then and um I got into PHP in the web pretty soon and pretty quickly found out that I really liked the UI ux part you know I had lots of um opinions and desire to make the UI just do exactly what I wanted and so I found myself doing JavaScript and kind of Rich UI stuff even back then and Ember was like the first real framework I used well I guess backbone I used that but backbone didn't

have many rendering Primitives at all actually the render function was like a no op so it still left it up to you Ember was the first framework I used that had this notion of declarative rendering um and then eventually came into react but um I have a lot of full stack framework my job before I started working myself um was at TED Talks the conference company that's what brought me to New York City and that's how I met my business partner Ryan and uh we did a lot of full stack work there and um so

I've always done you know everything from the database to CSS uh but I just find myself spending liking the frontend the most and spending the most time there so that's kind of what I'm doing these days awesome um I came across your content probably around react and more likely frame or motion stuff animations and then I remember you were launching the built UI platform where you had this Frame motion course uh and I got the membership there it's an amazing uh

platform for anyone who is uh using react uh you have remix courses nextjs stuff I have seen Ryan uh also produces their animations and T stuff and more to come so it's a uh it's definitely a platform for frontend folks or react folks to check out I I'm also following you there about your courses um so in terms of