#441 — August 27, 2025 |
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Plate: Roll Your Own Rich-Text Editor — A framework for building React-based rich text editors lets you select the specific features and functionality you need, plus it has very thorough docs. — GitHub repo. Ziad Beyens |
Can We Use Local Storage Instead of Context/Redux/Zustand? — Sometimes the built-in Nadia Makarevich (Developer Way) |
![]() Modern React Fundamentals in One Course — Explore hooks, context, portals, testing, and performance upgrades in React 19. Frontend Masters sponsor |
Streamdown: A Drop-In Vercel |
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▶ A 'Go to Source' Feature for TanStack Devtools — The original title ‘I blow your mind with TanStack Devtools in under 10 minutes’ might be a little intense, but 5 minutes in, Alem does show off a genuinely neat ‘go to source’ feature that works across any JSX flavor. Click on whatever component you want in the devtools and go straight to the code behind it. Alem Tuzlak |
A Guide to Self-Hosting Next.js at Scale — Covering horizontal scaling, distributed caching, image optimization, reverse proxy configuration, inspired by challenges faced with real-world deployments. David Höck |
📄 How I Built a Full-Stack React Framework 4x Faster Than Next.js – The trick was to rip out Node.js and instead create a custom Rust-based runtime called Rari with V8 at its core. Ryan Skinner 📄 React’s 📺 Building Cross-Platform Apps for iOS, Android & Web with Expo + React Native Kurak, Berry and Lähteenlahti 📄 Exporting a Cloth Simulation from Blender to an Interactive Three.js Scene Joshua Guo 📄 Optimizing PWAs for Different Display Modes Declan Chidlow 📄 How to Build a Modern Blog with React 19 and Strapi 5 The Strapi Blog |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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Headless Tree: The Definitive Tree Component — The homepage is packed with live examples to try. Now with a new multi-select checkbox feature. – GitHub repo. Lukas Bach |
React-PDF 10.1: Display PDFs in a React App — Render PDFs in your app as easily as images. v10.1 adds support for using functions as children, making custom rendering and state management easier to manage. Wojciech Maj |
The Best Way for Web Developers To Track Key User Flows — Check out User Journeys, a new approach to connecting technical performance to user engagement in your web apps. Embrace sponsor |
Uppy 5.0: Powerful, Modular JavaScript File Uploader — Upload not just from local sources but also remote services like Dropbox or Google Drive. Integrates with React and supports resumable uploads too. GitHub repo. Transloadit |
🎨 react-beautiful-color: A Flexible Color Picker Component — Billed as a ‘React color picker you can actually customize’. Özer Gökalpsezer |
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📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript |
A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them: |
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