--- title: "Dan Abramov's impossible components" publication: "React Status" issue: 426 published_at: "2025-04-23" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/426" --- Plus a big step forward for React Compiler. | #​426 — April 23, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/) Together with [![Tonkotsu logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_1280,h_313/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/c4v6bk3uzcf36sutppl2.jpg)](https://www.tonkotsu.ai) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/ze6ud6okecvspzjqxjig.jpg)](https://react.dev/blog/2025/04/21/react-compiler-rc) [React Compiler Enters Release Candidate Stage](https://react.dev/blog/2025/04/21/react-compiler-rc) — With a plan [first unveiled in early 2024](https://react.dev/blog/2024/02/15/react-labs-what-we-have-been-working-on-february-2024#react-compiler), React Compiler has been undergoing a _lot_ of development since and is now here in a ‘stable and near-final’ form, pending a final release in the coming months. The team has also been collaborating with the [`swc` project](https://swc.rs/) and experimental `swc` support is included as part of this release. Lauren Tan and Mofei Zhang 💡 If you need a refresher on what React Compiler is, [here's the official explanation.](https://react.dev/learn/react-compiler) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/22a4e688.jpg)](https://www.tonkotsu.ai) [🍜 Tonkotsu Is a Reimagined IDE for JavaScript & TypeScript Developers](https://www.tonkotsu.ai) — We've built a new developer experience that makes you the tech lead for a team of AI agents. We just started our FREE early access program and want to hear directly from early adopters. [Sign up today](https://www.tonkotsu.ai). Tonkotsu sponsor [Impossible Components](https://overreacted.io/impossible-components/) — Dan Abramov continues with his series of ‘big picture’ posts with a look at the idea of so-called ‘impossible’ components that mix server-only and client-only features and how React Server Components can help bridge that divide, culminating in an example you can experiment with for yourself. Dan Abramov 💡 If the idea of the 'impossible component' seems familiar, Darius Cepulis wrote a post a year ago called [React 19 lets you write impossible components](https://www.mux.com/blog/react-19-server-components-and-actions) that covered similar themes from a different perspective. **IN BRIEF:** - We recently mentioned [RedwoodJS's plan](https://redwoodjs.com/) to split into two parts: Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK. The latter [now has a neat new home page](https://rwsdk.com/) selling the vision. - Vercel has posted [a quick explanation of a security vulnerability in React Router](https://vercel.com/changelog/protection-against-react-router-vulnerability-cve-2025-31137) that has been fixed in Remix 2.16.3 / React Router 7.4.1. [Tailwind vs Linaria: A Performance Investigation](https://www.developerway.com/posts/tailwind-vs-linaria-performance) — [Linaria](https://linaria.dev/) offers a way to write CSS directly in JS but get real CSS files at build-time. Nadia Makarevich [Unbork Your Laravel App (Live)](https://sentry.io/resources/debug-laravel-with-sentry/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=paid-community&utm_campaign=debugging-fy26q1-laravel&utm_content=newsletter-headshot-rsvp) — Laravel is so in right now. Join us for a hands-on session using a demo app to track errors, replay sessions, trace slowdowns, and maybe even let the robots help. 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Supports Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, and more, and is built using React. You can deploy it for yourself or [try an online demo here.](https://app.chartdb.io/) _AGPL licensed._ ChartDB Team - 📺 [React Lite YouTube Embed 2.5](https://github.com/ibrahimcesar/react-lite-youtube-embed) – A faster, cleaner and more private way to embed YouTube videos. - [Next.js 15.4 Canary](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v15.4.0-canary.5) – Several canary releases have dropped over the past few days. - [json-edit-react 1.26](https://carlosnz.github.io/json-edit-react/) – React component for editing/viewing JSON/object data. - [React Spinners 0.17](https://github.com/davidhu2000/react-spinners) – A collection of loading spinner components. - [React Suite 5.80](https://github.com/rsuite/rsuite) – A suite of React components. ([Examples.](https://rsuitejs.com/components/overview/)) - [React Uploady 1.10](https://react-uploady.org/) – Components and hooks for file uploading. 📰 Classifieds [Meticulous automatically creates and maintains an E2E UI test suite with zero developer effort](https://www.meticulous.ai?utm_source=react_status&utm_campaign=april23rd2025). Relied on by Dropbox, Lattice, Bilt Rewards, etc. --- ✉️ If you work with frontend technologies beyond React, check out [Frontend Focus](https://frontendfoc.us/), our sister newsletter focused on the browser, HTML, and CSS. 📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them: - 📊 We're big fans of the [Val Town](https://www.val.town/) JavaScript platform and Orestis Papadopoulos shows [how he managed to quickly put together a basic analytics feature for his site with it.](https://orjpap.github.io/valtown/http/analytics/blog/jekyll/2025/04/15/blog-analytics.html) - Efficient `npm` alternative [pnpm 10.9 has been released](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/releases/tag/v10.9.0) with support for installing [JSR packages.](https://jsr.io/) - The Microsoft Edge team is [proposing enhancing the `console.context()` method](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/04/22/contextual-logging-with-console-context/) to help make it more useful to developers with visual tweaks and a filtering mechanism. - Matteo Collina takes a look at [Node.js's memory usage and how to tune V8's garbage collection.](https://blog.platformatic.dev/optimizing-nodejs-performance-v8-memory-management-and-gc-tuning) - Trevor I. 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