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Devon Govett

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Devon Govett

@devongovett

Creator of @parceljs. Engineer @adobe working on React Aria and React Spectrum.

San Francisco

Joined August 2008

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Devon Govett
@devongovett
Dec 16, 2025
Introducing the new React Aria docs! 🎉 All-new content and search experience. Interactive CSS and Tailwind examples to get you started quickly – just install with shadcn. New guides and full example apps. MCP server and AI integrations. Check it out! react-aria.adobe.com
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
Dec 20, 2023
Announcing React Aria Components v1.0.0! 🥳 Over 40 components with built-in behavior, adaptive interactions, top-tier accessibility, and internationalization out of the box, ready for your styles. react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/ind…
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
Dec 2, 2024
Found a neat CSS trick to automatically swap between black or white text based on any arbitrary background color! With relative color syntax, you can use calc to adjust the text color depending if the background is above or below 50% lightness in the LCH color space.
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
Nov 16, 2022
Announcing React Aria's drag and drop hooks! 🐉 ♿️ Full keyboard and screen reader parity 🗃 Reorder, insert, or drop on list items ✅ Multiple selection 📱 Interoperable with native dnd 💾 File and directory support 🤩 Customizable UI and interactions react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/drag-and-…
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
May 24, 2020
What if @github allowed PR authors to drag and drop files into the order they should be reviewed in rather than always showing them in alphabetical order? Sometimes I need instructions like "start here, and then go here, etc." to help guide me through the changes.
Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jan 30, 2020
Unpopular opinion: React is the wrong tool for building content websites (blogs, marketing sites, documentation, etc.) today. SSR is not good enough. You end up downloading the content twice: once in the HTML, and again in the JS for hydration. How did this become so common? 😱
Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jul 15, 2020
🚀 Super excited to announce: ♿️ React Aria — Accessible UI primitives for your design system. 👑 React Stately — State and core logic for your design system. 🌈 React Spectrum — Adobe’s design system. Learn more: react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/introduci… Github: github.com/adobe/react-sp…
Introducing React Spectrum | React Aria
From react-aria.adobe.com
Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jan 12, 2022
📢 Announcing Parcel CSS: A CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust! ⚡️ Extremely fast 🗜️ Small output 🏢 Vendor prefixing 🪂 Syntax lowering 🍱 CSS modules 📦 Use with Parcel, or standalone in JS or Rust! GitHub: github.com/parcel-bundler… Blog: parceljs.org/blog/parcel-cs…
Devon Govett
@devongovett
May 20, 2021
📢 Super excited to announce Parcel's new JavaScript compiler! 🚀 Up to 10x faster 🦀 Written in Rust 🐠 20x faster transpilation via SWC 🌳 Improved scope hoisting Excited to build on this foundation and improve performance even further! 🤩 Details: v2.parceljs.org/blog/beta3/
Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jan 18, 2025
Yoooo CSS view transitions are incredible! This is like 100 lines. Wild. 🤯
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jun 29, 2023
I built an iOS-style modal sheet with React Aria Components and Framer Motion! It uses gesture-driven animations to feel super smooth and natural on touch devices. It's a surprisingly small amount of code too. Check it out! 🤩 codesandbox.io/s/quirky-tharp…
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
May 5, 2022
Whoa, just found out that Node has a builtin testing framework now! 😲 nodejs.org/api/test.html
Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jun 23, 2023
Turn all HTML <a> elements into client side router links, no special framework-specific <Link> component necessary!
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
Jun 21, 2022
📢 Announcing React Aria's date and time pickers! 👑 Calendars, date and time fields, and range pickers 💪 Custom granularity, unavailable dates, and more 🌍 International – 13 calendar systems ♿️ Accessible 📱 Touch friendly 🎨 Bring your own design react-spectrum.adobe.com/blog/date-and-…
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