The History of React Through Code — An epic attempt charting React’s evolution from its origins at Facebook to what we know and use today. It sheds light on React’s core philosophies, the motivations behind major API and feature decisions, and how it solved real problems developers were facing. This will round out your thinking about React if you weren’t using it from the earliest days.

Corbin Crutchley

The Road to Next — Advance your React career by mastering full-stack development with React 19 and Next.js 15. This self-paced bootcamp covers auth, file uploads, multi-tenant apps, and more. Join 1,000+ students and level up your skills.

Robin Wieruch sponsor

Announcing Node-API Support for React Native — A huge development for React Native. By bringing Node’s native module system into React Native, many doors are opened for code-sharing between platforms, prebuilding native modules for faster build times, and using existing Node-API compatible modules in React Native for the first time.

Hansen, Pasinski, et al. (Callstack)

Next.js 15.4 Released (and What's Coming in Next.js 16) — A relatively small release for Next, but with updates to performance, stability, and Turbopack compatibility, and a good summary of what’s coming next in Next.js 16.

Jimmy Lai and Zack Tanner

The World’s Longest React Hooks Migration? — The three year tale of how a team transitioned from class components and MobX classes to functional components and hooks in a large React app.

Chris Krogh

How to Build an AI Coding Rules App with Lovable — Guide AI to generate a secure, full-stack app with minimal prompts—learn how to turn ideas into working software fast.

Clerk sponsor

react-easy-crop: A Component for Interactive Image Cropping — Supports any image format (and even videos) along with dragging, zooming, and rotations. GitHub repo.

Valentin Hervieu

📺 ReactPlayer 3.2: A Component for Playing Media from URLs — As well as standard videos, it can play HLS streams, DASH streams, YouTube videos, Vimeo videos, and more. There’s a complete online demo showing off its flexibility.

Pete Cook and Mux

Hyper Fetch: A 'Turbocharged' Fetch Library for Working with Remote APIs — An Axios and TanStack Query-inspired type-safe data-fetching framework for browser and server environments, with request lifecycle management, real-time communication, progress tracking, and codegen for Swagger/OpenAPI. GitHub repo.

Maciej Pyrc et al.

🌧️ Animated WebGL-Powered Weather Effects — A quick, fun one with a demo of its rain, snow, and fog effects.

Mate Rauscher