---
title: "Fixing 'a glaring animation-sized hole in React's API'"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 413
published_at: "2025-01-15"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/413"
---

Plus is it time to finally put Create React App to rest? |        

#​413 — January 15, 2025 

[Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/413)  

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[An Early Look at React's Experimental Animations API](https://motion.dev/blog/reacts-experimental-view-transition-api) — `<ViewTransition />` is based on the powerful browser-based [View Transition API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transition_API) (unsupported in Firefox for now). It’s only in pre-release versions of React so far, but Matt comes armed with examples and demos for you to get an early feel for the potential. 

Matt Perry (Motion)   

💡 There are more technical details in [the React pull request about `ViewTransition`.](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/31975)  

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**IN BRIEF:** 

- React Native tooling provider Expo has [shown off a preview of EAS Hosting](https://expo.dev/blog/expo-announces-eas-hosting-service), a way to host Expo server code in the cloud on a Cloudflare Workers-based serverless platform.
- Can we consider [Create React App](https://create-react-app.dev/) deprecated yet? Its repo's [issues](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues) are getting spammed and there almost [500 open pull requests.](https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pulls) Is it time to draw a line under CRA in the face of Vite and Next.js?
- Ideas from React have seeped into desktop and mobile app development, but Alexander Kondratev ponders [if there could/should be a React for embedded development](https://blog.devgenius.io/react-for-embedded-development-e1496be8a774) too?
- It took a while, but [the official React site](https://react.dev/) has itself just [upgraded to Next.js 15.1 and React 19.](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/6996)   

[Accessibility Essentials Every React Developer Should Know](https://martijnhols.nl/blog/accessibility-essentials-every-front-end-developer-should-know) — If you’re an experienced frontend developer, these might be second nature to you by now, but this is a good roundup of the entry level ‘table stakes’ for frontend accessibility. 

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📄 [Consider Avoiding `navigate(-1)` in Remix/React Router](https://programmingarehard.com/2025/01/13/maybe-dont-navigate-1.html/) David Adams 

📄 [Best Practices for Mastering Forms in Next.js 15 and React 19](https://engineering.udacity.com/mastering-forms-in-next-js-15-and-react-19-e3d2d783946b) Kolby Sisk (Udacity) 

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[react-nil 2.0: A React 'Null Renderer'](https://github.com/pmndrs/react-nil) — An interesting experiment to use React in situations where you don’t need it to render anything, but you want to use hooks, suspense, context, and other bits of the React lifecycle. Like in, say, a Node app. Maybe [this CodeSandbox example](https://codesandbox.io/s/react-nil-mvpry) will provoke some ideas. 

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- [react-intersection-observer 9.15](https://github.com/thebuilder/react-intersection-observer) – Uses the Intersection Observer API to take action when an element enters or leaves the viewport.
- [react-highlight-words 0.21](https://bvaughn.github.io/react-highlight-words/) – Component to highlight words within bodies of text.
- [react-json-view-lite 2.3](https://github.com/AnyRoad/react-json-view-lite) – Render JSON objects in a tree view, [as here.](https://anyroad.github.io/react-json-view-lite/?path=/docs/json-view--docs)
- [React Native Gesture Handler 2.22](https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler/releases/tag/2.22.0) – Exposes platform native touch APIs.
- 🦉 [React Native Owl 1.5](https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-native-owl) – Visual regression testing for React Native.
- [Fortune Sheet 0.22](https://github.com/ruilisi/fortune-sheet) – Drop-in Excel-like spreadsheet control.
- [React Native 0.78.0 RC 0](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0780-rc0)
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