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title: "The joys of React 19.2's useEffectEvent"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 457
published_at: "2026-01-09"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/457"
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Plus 48 videos from React Conf 2025. |        

#​457 — January 9, 2026 

[Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/457)   

👋 Happy new year! React Status is now sent every Friday (starting today!)
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_Your editor, Peter Cooper_ 

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[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/epssq4ziaqeq4ooix3gq.jpg)](https://conf.react.dev/)  

[The React Conf 2025 Videos are Now Online](https://conf.react.dev/) — React Conf 2025 took place last October and while you could previously scrub your way through the livestreams, the talks have now been separated and shared in an easier-to-watch format. There are [25 talk videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZ-pYFoA9WUwDgvMmVUi1eu) and [23 _interview_ videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZQCTcTinGsD-s8Wt9PIsYA) which are new and feature folks like [Tanner Linsley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOC4GW2lfRU&list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZQCTcTinGsD-s8Wt9PIsYA&index=4), [Delba de Oliveira](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56AMQAHNj_Y&list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZQCTcTinGsD-s8Wt9PIsYA&index=21), and [Kent C. Dodds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhDDpmG8L8&list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZQCTcTinGsD-s8Wt9PIsYA&index=22) 

Meta   

📺 There's also [an interview with four members of the React core team](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJUXAWTuaTo&list=PLNG_1j3cPCaZQCTcTinGsD-s8Wt9PIsYA&index=3) (Mofei Zhang, Lauren Tan, Jack Pope, and Joe Savona) covering their favorite React 19.2 features, React Compiler, and more.  [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/80952090.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/fullstack-app-next-v4/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=reactstatus&utm_content=fullstackappv4) 

[Build a Fullstack Next.js App](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/fullstack-app-next-v4/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=reactstatus&utm_content=fullstackappv4) — Join Brian Holt for this comprehensive video course and learn how to ship enterprise-ready Next.js apps! You’ll cover setup, scaling, auth, deployment, logging and much, much more. 

Frontend Masters sponsor    

[React Has Finally Solved Its Biggest Problem: The Joys of `useEffectEvent`](https://blog.logrocket.com/react-has-finally-solved-its-biggest-problem-useeffectevent/) — You might be more used to seeing Jack on YouTube, but he writes too! Here, he looks at how React 19.2’s `useEffectEvent` hook can help solve the stale closure problem that has plagued `useEffect` for years. 

Jack Herrington   

**IN BRIEF:** 

- If you attended React Conf 2025, either in person or virtually, [the team is seeking your feedback](https://conf.react.dev/survey) for making future events even better.
- ⚠️ [The React Router team has just published six CVEs](https://xcancel.com/ReactRouter/status/2009364827056271562) identifying security vulnerabilities in React Router and Remix v2. Upgrading is advised.
- Dan Abramov released [RSC Explorer](https://overreacted.io/introducing-rsc-explorer/) as an aid for understanding how React Server Components operate behind the scenes.
- A developer shows off [▶️ a demo of his React Native decompiler and disassembly tool.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wi8wMzmg-U)   

[React Has Changed, Your Hooks Should Too](https://allthingssmitty.com/2025/12/01/react-has-changed-your-hooks-should-too/) — _“If you’re still writing Hooks the same way you did in 2020, that’s fine. Most of us are. But React 18+ gives us a much better toolbox, and getting comfortable with these patterns pays off quickly.”_ 

Matt Smith   

📺 [I Moved Off of Next.js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc5ca-VJdxY) – The prolific dev YouTuber explains how he moved his chat app from Next.js to TanStack Start. This _isn't_ a rant about Next.js at all, but more about improving his app's structure and his team's development experience. Theo Browne 

📄 [How AI Coding Agents Hid an Infinite Recursion Bug in Our React App](https://acusti.ca/blog/2025/12/09/how-ai-coding-agents-hid-a-timebomb-in-our-app/) Andrew Patton 

📄 [Driving 3D Scenes in Blender with React](https://romanliutikov.com/blog/driving-3d-scenes-in-blender-with-react) – A delightfully creative use for React, though the code is a little hard to read in the post. Roman Liutikov 

📄 [How I Rebuilt My Blog with React Server Components](https://micahcantor.com/blog/rsc-rewrite.html) Micah Cantor  

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/xshcz68dksc5n2786cj2.jpg)](https://react-aria.adobe.com/)   

[React Aria: Adobe's World-Class React Components](https://react-aria.adobe.com/) — They’ve been around for a long while, but React Aria has a fantastic new site and all-new documentation that really sells the entire experience complete with interactive CSS and Tailwind examples to get you started quickly. 

Adobe   

[Let Users Create API Keys with Clerk's New React Components](https://go.clerk.com/EsXVWx2) — Drop-in `<APIKeys />` component for UserProfile & OrganizationProfile. Scopes, expiration & revocation built-in. 

Clerk sponsor   

[Schedule-X 3.6: A Material Design Calendar and Date Picker](https://schedule-x.dev/) — Available in the form of React/Preact, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or plain JS components. Open source but with a premium version with extra features. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/schedule-x/schedule-x) 

Tom Österlund   

[Base UI 1.0: Unstyled UI Components for React](https://base-ui.com/) — Intended as a successor to Radix (and from the same creators as Radix, Floating UI and Material UI), this is a new, comprehensive UI component library worth checking out if you like things clean and simple. Here’s a [guide to all of the components](https://base-ui.com/react/components/accordion), complete with examples and code samples. 

Base UI Team   

- [Ink 6.6](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink) – Use React to build CLI apps, as used by Claude Code, Gemini CLI, [and many others.](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink?tab=readme-ov-file#whos-using-ink)
- [React Three Fiber 9.5](https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber/releases/tag/v9.5.0) – React renderer for Three.js. Now compatible with React 19.2, including `Activity`.
- [React-Grid-Layout 2.2](https://github.com/react-grid-layout/react-grid-layout) – Draggable and resizable grid layout system with responsive breakpoints.
- 📊 [Recharts 3.6](https://github.com/recharts/recharts/releases/tag/v3.6.0) – Popular D3-powered React charting library.
- [xstyled 4.1](https://xstyled.dev/) – Utility-first CSS-in-JS framework for React.
- [React-PDF 10.3](https://projects.wojtekmaj.pl/react-pdf/) – Easily display PDFs in your React app.
- [react-qr-scanner 2.5](https://github.com/yudielcurbelo/react-qr-scanner) – A library to scan QR codes.
- [React Router Devtools 6.1](https://github.com/forge-42/react-router-devtools)
- [TanStack AI Alpha 2](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-ai-alpha-2)
- [Next.js 16.1](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-1)  

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem  

Some other interesting stories in the broader landscape:  

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/xft2tcainxsqlvfskkvi.jpg)](https://risingstars.js.org/2025/en#section-react)  

- [The 2025 JavaScript Rising Stars](https://risingstars.js.org/2025/en) roundup of the most starred JavaScript projects in 2025 is now live and there's [a React-specific section](https://risingstars.js.org/2025/en#section-react) _(above)_ where [React Bits](https://reactbits.dev/) took the #1 spot.
- As the next stage of making the npm ecosystem more secure, [GitHub plans to implement 'staged publishing' for npm packages.](https://socket.dev/blog/npm-to-implement-staged-publishing)
- [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/)'s lead maintainer, Zoltan Kochan, presents [a look back at how 2025 was a transformative year for the project.](https://pnpm.io/blog/2025/12/29/pnpm-in-2025)
- [WebF](https://openwebf.com/en/blog/announcing-webf) is a new WHATWG-compliant web runtime for Flutter so you can build parts of Flutter apps using a more typical JS stack (React, Vue, etc.)
- [The results of the _State of HTML 2025_ survey](https://2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/) are now available.         

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