#452 — November 19, 2025 |
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imgui-react-runtime: React + Dear ImGui + Static Hermes — When the author teased a demo of this on X a few weeks ago, I wasn’t sure if it would get released, but here it is. A new way to put together native apps using React and the popular lightweight GUI library Dear ImGui. Always great to see more options in this space! Tzvetan Mikov |
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Time to Take the State of React 2025 Survey — Devographics’ popular annual survey of the React ecosystem is back. Submissions close on November 25 – next Tuesday. We’ll share the results as soon as they’re out, but you can enjoy 2024’s results here for now. Devographics |
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Tooltip Components Should Not Exist — Dominik challenges some common wisdom in his typically erudite fashion. Stand-alone tooltip components are the wrong abstraction when separated from the underlying UI features that use them. This thinking can apply to many other UI affordances too, so the broad idea is well worth considering. Dominik Dorfmeister (AKA TkDodo) |
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Moving Mountains: How We Migrated from Enzyme to React Testing Library — Enzyme was a popular testing approach for React apps but hasn’t seen a release in years. It lives on in some apps, however, and HubSpot tells the tale of how they migrated “more than 76,000 tests” to a more modern approach. Charley Pugmire (HubSpot) |
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When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React? — A thought piece from the former founder of ReadWriteWeb on the idea that AI models ‘default to React and Next.js’ in preference to using widely available web/browser-native solutions. Richard MacManus |
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📄 Nativewind: Speeding up Styling in React Native – NativeWind is an approach for styling React Native apps with Tailwind CSS. Jack Rosa 📄 Encapsulate as Much State as Possible in Your Component David Johnston |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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Fumadocs: A Documentation Framework for React — A developer-oriented framework for building documentation sites, including in a headless form for which you’d provide your own UI (or you can use themes). It can integrate with other CMS systems, has native support for Markdown and MDX, and supports Next.js, TanStack Start, Waku, and React Router. Fuma Nama |
💡 Docusaurus is another option in this space, with a somewhat different feature set. |
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TanStack DB 0.5, Now with Query-Driven Sync — TanStack DB is a client‑first reactive data store that uses differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and seamless optimistic writes. In v0.5, a component’s query becomes the API call too. “Just write your query and TanStack DB figures out exactly what to fetch.” Willis, De Parre, and Matthews |
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ESLint Plugin for Baseline JavaScript — The winner of last month's Baseline Tooling Hackathon is an ESLint plugin that flags code that’s using features newer than your configured Baseline target (features broadly supported by modern browsers). Ryuya Hasegawa |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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Some other interesting stories in the broader landscape:
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