Redux's Maintainer on the State of React and the Community in 2025 — React remains dominant but version 19’s features and changes have rekindled debate over React’s future. Redux lead Mark Erikson chronicles React’s evolution, the growing split between Meta’s internal-driven process and Vercel’s Next‑led Server Components work, the docs’ references to frameworks, and pushes back on the FUD about Vercel “taking over,” “React only works with Next” myths, and fears of client‑side abandonment.

Mark Erikson

Secure AI Agents Against Prompt Injection and Abuse — AI agents are becoming part of modern frontend stacks, adding new challenges around identity, access, and runtime control. WorkOS equips you with machine-to-machine authentication, scoped access, and visibility into agent behavior in production.

WorkOS sponsor

React Native 0.80 Released — React Native 0.80 lands with React 19.1, a new opt-in set of stricter TypeScript types, and experimental support for prebuilt dependencies on iOS to speed up builds. The legacy architecture is now officially 'frozen', with warnings for APIs slated for future removal.

Cohen, Cucci, Dall'Agnol, and Falch

🤖 use-mcp: A Hook for Connecting to MCP Servers — The aim is to simplify authentication and tool calling for AI systems implementing the Model Context Protocol standard.

Cloudflare

Clerk OAuth Gets a Big Upgrade—Now Fully MCP-Ready — Clerk OAuth now supports token revocation, consent screens, dynamic clients, & more—now fully MCP-ready. Learn more here.

Clerk sponsor

react-searchable-dropdown: A Customizable Dropdown Component — A modern, accessible, and customizable dropdown component that supports large datasets with virtualization, lets users create new options, works with both simple and complex data, and is easy to style and extend. GitHub repo.

Lucio D'Alessandro

🪟 Apple's 'Liquid Glass' Effect for React — One of Apple’s recent announcements is its new design language for iOS and macOS oriented around a ‘liquid glass’ effect. This lets you reproduce it in your React apps with a high level of control. GitHub repo.

Max Rovensky

react-call 1.8: Call Your React Components — This gives you a call(props) method to give you an imperative way to call a component, even from outside React and with no context providers needed. The latest version adds an upsert method for singleton-like component instances. GitHub repo.

Ismael Ramon