#442 — September 3, 2025 |
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React Server Components Support Without a Framework? — If you don’t want to use Next.js (or even the minimal Waku framework) but you want to play with React Server Components, this is for you. Krasimir built a tool to split code across the client/server divide so you can run RSCs without a framework. Krasimir Tsonev |
![]() Boost Coding Productivity with AI-Assisted Tools & Agents — Join Steve Kinney for this course looking at how best to harness AI for faster, higher-quality code. Learn how Cursor and Claude Code can be used to handle project plans, carry out inline edits, and perform larger background tasks — all adhering to the guidelines you set. Frontend Masters sponsor |
react-window 2.0: Render Large Lists of Data Quickly — A component library for rendering large lists of data quickly and without the performance problems that often go along with that. There are several examples to check out, and React 18 is now required. (Tanstack Virtual is another option to consider in this area.) Brian Vaughn |
IN BRIEF:
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Using Simeon Griggs |
📄 A Guide to Styling React Components – A comparison of a few different approaches including styled components, CSS Modules, and Tailwind. Hassan Djirdeh 📄 How to Build a Sales Dashboard with React and Wijmo – Wijmo is a commercial suite of UI components. Andrew Peterson (Mescius) 📄 Next.js is Infuriating – “there’s bugs and edge cases around every corner” Dominik Meca 📄 What Synced In-App SQLite Brings to Expo Apps Christiaan Landman (Expo) 📄 Deriving Client State from Server State Dominik Dorfmeister |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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🗓️ React DayPicker 9.9: A Component to Create Date Picker Controls — There are many date selection components out there, but few match the maturity of DayPicker which focuses on providing the basics for you to then style and customize as you wish - it complies with modern accessibility requirements too. GitHub repo. Giampaolo Bellavite |
Redux Toolkit 2.9: The 'Batteries-Included' Toolset for Redux — The long-standing toolset for effectively working with Redux for state management gets a performance update through a rewrite of RTK Query’s internal subscription and polling systems, automatic aborting of in-flight requests when a cache entry is removed, a new Mark Erikson |
Secure Your AI Agents So That You Can Protect Your Users — Whether you have a B2B or B2C use case, Auth0 is a full IdP that provides robust security like MFA and continuous threat monitoring. Auth0 sponsor |
React on Rails 15: Bringing React and Ruby on Rails Together — A long-standing framework designed to integrate React with the Ruby on Rails server-side rendering approach. v15 introduces the ability for hydration to begin before the page if fully loaded, but there’s also a (paid) React on Rails Pro variant (to be open sourced under a dual license model soon) that supports React Server Components. – GitHub repo. ShakaCode |
react-json-view-lite: Render JSON as a Tree — A lightweight component for visualizing JSON in a way that retains its basic formatting and JSON-ness but that lets you collapse or expand arrays and objects and see the structure more easily. Demo. Andrei Alikov |
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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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