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βš›οΈ This Week In React #300: Next.js, TanStack, React Foundation, Compiler, Ink, Streamdown, Shaders | Skia, Live Activities, Lucent, Voltra, Apex, Coinbase, Stim Desktop, Unistyles | TC39, e2e, Effect, Remix, h3, SvelteKit, TypeScript

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹, earlier than usual this time πŸ€ͺ Wow, 300 issues already! Time flies, and thanks for reading along πŸ™ It's a big week, with major releases from the Next.js and TanStack teams. We also put the spotlight on recent React Foundation activity. On mobile, Skia 3.0 is out! Shopify and Coinbase both recently announced moving away from React Native, a trend worth watching. Callstack officially launched an AI model specialized in React Native. There are other...

about 2 hours agoΒ β€’Β 6 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! This week we have 2 major releases in the React ecosystem: Panda CSS v2 and Vinext v1. On the mobile side, RN is getting support for variable font and Android Activity Result. Lynx v4 is out. Lucent is a new way to write native modules. I’m particularly excited about the TC39 meeting happening right now. Many proposals progressed, including my favorite one: Composites moved to stage 2! Let's dive in! πŸ’Έ Sponsor The React framework for MCP Apps MCP...

6 days agoΒ β€’Β 6 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! This week is rather quiet on the web side. Astro's React integration keeps ramping up. Redux is working on significant performance improvements for large apps. On mobile, we still have a steady flow of interesting releases. Reanimated enabled its new layout engine by default. Shopify presented Helix, its internal tool to move away from RN. Xcode project format is finally moving to JSON! We asked on 𝕏: do average devs still care about React?Thanks...

13 days agoΒ β€’Β 6 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! Following the React v19.3 release, DevTools v8 is now officially published. Motion shipped a ViewTransition wrapper. React Router optimized re-renders. Apollo Client finally has custom scalars. On mobile, we have a lot of releases. RN 0.88 will use React v19.3. Shopify is moving away from React Native! Let's dive in! πŸ’Έ Sponsor Live Workshop Series: Debugging AI Agents Your agent returns something odd. Was it the prompt, a tool call that timed...

20 days agoΒ β€’Β 7 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! We could feel it was coming, and here it is, delaying just in time for the newsletter! πŸ˜‡ React 19.3 is finally out, with View Transitions and Fragment Refs stable! And it looks like updated DevTools are also coming soon. We also got a sneak peek of React Native 0.88 and Expo Modules 2.0. Let's dive in! As always, thanks for supporting us on your favorite platform: πŸ¦‹ Bluesky βœ–οΈ X / Twitter πŸ‘” LinkedIn πŸ‘½ Reddit πŸ’Έ Sponsor Atomic CRM: A CRM You Can...

27 days agoΒ β€’Β 7 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! Back from our summer break, we’ll cover news from the last two weeks. React v19.3 is getting closer. The React Compiler in Rust is now available in Vite and Bun. CSS-in-JS is set to make a comeback. On the mobile side, React Native keeps refining its public API surface, an important step toward v1.0. Callstack acquired Margelo. Let's dive in! πŸ’Έ Sponsor PlanetScale: The database that gets faster as you sleep Agents ship React features faster than...

about 1 month agoΒ β€’Β 8 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here! Back after a little break to cover news from the last two weeks. A lot is going on, apparently not everyone is on holiday because we still have many interesting releases, including many RCs from upcoming major versions. The native React Compiler rollout continues. React v19.3 seems around the corner. Plenty of TanStack Router/Start and Next.js content. React Native 0.87 is now out, paving the way for v1.0. 🏝️ We’ll be taking another break next...

about 2 months agoΒ β€’Β 8 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Kasia and Kuba from Software Mansion here. This week, Next.js 16.3 officially shipped, bringing Instant Navigations to the App Router and cutting dev server RAM usage by up to 90%. On the React Native side, a new, faster PlainText component and a deep dive into Vision Camera v5. Across the broader dev ecosystem, GitHub stacked PRs finally entered public preview with native base retargeting and a gh-stack CLI. Let's dive in! 🏝️FYI: we’re taking a break next week; see...

2 months agoΒ β€’Β 6 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! This week we have an interesting React challenger, keeping its mental model but compiled ahead of time. Also various major announcements from the TanStack side. On the mobile side, we have interesting RN 0.87 PRs to look at, discussions around workers / worklets, a WebGPU/Skia integration, and React Navigation 8 / Screens 5 progress. Last week, many proposals progressed during a TC39 meeting. npm is going to scan for malware at publish time. Core...

2 months agoΒ β€’Β 7 min read

🌐 Read Online Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here πŸ‘‹! This week we have React and Next.js security patches. React Aria becomes first-class in shadcn. A benchmark grades coding agents at real React tasks. The rise of TSRX and its upcoming framework. On the mobile side, Swift Package Manager support is finally coming. A TC39 meeting is in progress; we'll share the proposal updates next week. Oxlint type-aware linting is ready for prime-time. Meanwhile, Yuku explains how it outperforms Oxc at parsing...

3 months agoΒ β€’Β 6 min read