--- title: "Remotion is having the week of its life" publication: "React Status" issue: 459 published_at: "2026-01-23" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/459" --- Plus auto generating UIs, how Turbopack got faster, and React Native Windows 0.81. | #​459 — January 23, 2026 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/459) Together with [![SurveyJS logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_1000,h_410/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:20/yrja59qflovcjwojxypq.png)](https://surveyjs.io/?utm_source=react_status&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=q1_2026) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/x4qpzfa8x9sjcqi2nnzt.jpg)](https://www.remotion.dev/) Remotion Releases Agent Skill for Creating Videos [Remotion](https://www.remotion.dev/) is a toolkit for creating videos with React that's been around for several years. You compose elements with React and render MP4s of the results. The only issue is, it takes a lot of skill (and code) to make something good. A few days ago, the Remotion team launched ([on X](https://x.com/Remotion/status/2013626968386765291)) a set of 'agent skills' ([read them here](https://github.com/remotion-dev/skills/blob/main/skills/remotion/SKILL.md)) for tools like _Claude Code_ to create high-quality videos with prompting alone. As an example, [here's a log of the session used](https://gist.github.com/JonnyBurger/5b801182176f1b76447901fbeb5a84ac) to create Remotion's own promo video for the feature. Remotion's post got _ten million_ impressions, and people are generating videos en masse. I've created a few and am impressed by the potential. Several YouTubers have [▶️ created videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu_XOKKgJtA) [▶️ showing off what they've made](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtd4DjU9AU8) and [▶️ sharing advice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OR-L0AySn8). _(If you use X, [search for 'remotion'](https://x.com/search?q=remotion&src=typed_query) and you'll be flooded with examples.)_ And even if AI isn't your thing, Remotion is still worth [checking out.](https://www.remotion.dev/) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/35662871.png)](https://surveyjs.io/?utm_source=react_status&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=q1_2026) [Drag-and-Drop React Form Builder with Full Data Control](https://surveyjs.io/?utm_source=react_status&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=q1_2026) — SurveyJS offers a no-code form builder in React that integrates seamlessly with any backend. Design questions, configure validation and logic, and collect data in JSON without SaaS limitations. SurveyJS sponsor [The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button](https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/) — A radio button is just a radio button, right? _No_. Paul digs into the complexity UI frameworks can often introduce in the name of accessibility and consistent cross-browser behavior. This provoked a lot of discussion on social media and [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971), where Dan Abramov popped in to make some points. Paul Hebert **IN BRIEF:** - 🇫🇷 [React Paris](https://react.paris/) is taking place this March 26-27 in Paris, France — though you can also attend virtually. - 🕹️ _Tiny Harvest_ ([iOS App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tiny-harvest-cozy-farm/id6755226300), [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supersimon.harvestgame)) is a 'cozy farming' mobile game and a good example of what you can achieve with React Native and Expo. - A developer floats the idea of [putting inline assertions into your React code](https://scenetest.github.io/scenetest-js/), rather than having separate tests. - [The Boring JavaScript Stack](https://github.com/sailscastshq/boring-stack) has hit version 1.0 – it's an _'opinionated full-stack JavaScript project starter'_ built around Sails, Inertia, Tailwind CSS, and your choice of Vue, React or Svelte. [Inside Turbopack: Building Faster by Building Less](https://nextjs.org/blog/turbopack-incremental-computation) — If you’re working on a large codebase, faster hot reloading, better scaling, and persistent caching are all quite desirable. Here’s how these things came about in Turbopack. Shew, Woodruff and Koppers (Vercel) 📄 [Adapting Library Logic for React Compiler](https://playfulprogramming.com/posts/react-compiler-library-support/) – From the lead maintainer of _TanStack Form._ Corbin Crutchley 📄 [Improving React Performance with `useMemo` and `useCallback`](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/react-usememo-usecallback) Jakub Andrzejewski 📄 [Building a Next.js 16 PWA with True Offline Support](https://blog.logrocket.com/nextjs-16-pwa-offline-support/) Jude Miracle 🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/j1psfiwxudbkvi990mhn.jpg)](https://github.com/darula-hpp/shimmer-from-structure) [Shimmer From Structure: Auto-Generate 'Shimmer' Skeletons From Your Components](https://github.com/darula-hpp/shimmer-from-structure) — A shimmer/skeleton library that automatically adapts to your component’s runtime structure and DOM, with no pre-defined skeleton structure needed. Olebogeng Mbedzi [Build Faster Dashboards with TimescaleDB](https://www.tigerdata.com/timescaledb?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=react-status-newsletter) — 95% compression, continuous aggregates, full Postgres. Query billions of rows instantly. [Start for free](https://www.tigerdata.com/timescaledb?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=react-status-newsletter). Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor [React Native Windows v0.81 Released](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/%f0%9f%9a%80react-native-windows-v0-81-is-here/) — RNW is now aligned with React Native 0.81.5, the React Native DevTools are supported, and much more. There’s also [a full example app](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/%f0%9f%9a%80react-native-windows-v0-81-is-here/) to show off RNW’s features (in both Paper and Fabric architecture versions) to demonstrate [how to migrate between architectures.](https://github.com/raorugan/AIImageClassifierRNW/blob/main/README.md) Ramya Oruganti (Microsoft) 💡 The 'old architecture' is set to be deprecated in React Native Windows 0.82, so it's time to migrate if you're still using it. [json-render: AI-Generated UI with Guardrails](https://json-render.dev/) — This feels a bit odd to me at first, but it’s interesting to see Vercel experiment with the idea of UI elements generated automatically from a user's prompts. Try it for yourself with the live demo on the homepage. Vercel [react-native-bootsplash 7.0: Show a Splash Screen During App Startup](https://github.com/zoontek/react-native-bootsplash) — It’s now ‘edge-to-edge’ by default on Android. Mathieu Acthernoene - [Rockpack 7.1](https://alexsergey.github.io/rockpack/) – Tool to quickly spin up a new React app with SSR, bundling, linting, and testing. - [React Admin v5.14](https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin) – Provide a backend API and build a SPA frontend for it. - [Recharts 3.7](https://github.com/recharts/recharts/releases/tag/v3.7.0) – D3-based charting library for React. ([Demos.](https://recharts.github.io/en-US/examples/)) - [Next.js 16.2.0 Canary 5](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.2.0-canary.5) and [Next.js 16.1.4](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.1.4) - [Rolldown 1.0 RC](https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-rolldown-rc) 📰 Classifieds Clerk components now [auto-match your shadcn/ui theme](https://go.clerk.com/ppKpzG0). Light/dark mode, custom colors, Tailwind v4—no manual variable mapping needed. --- 🔐 Auth0 for AI Agents more securely connects your AI agents to apps and data, applying the correct user permissions in every scenario. [Try it out](https://auth0.com/signup?onboard_app=auth_for_aa&ocid=701KZ000000cXXxYAM_aPA4z0000008OZeGAM?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_campaign=amer_namer_usa_all_ciam_dev_dg_plg_auth0_native_cooperpress_native_aud_jan_2026_placements_utm2&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=aNKWR000002m8zp4AA). 📢 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/zbflj9jafkztkr2u20ov.jpg)](https://mastra.ai/) - 🤖 [Mastra](https://mastra.ai/) is an AI framework for TypeScript built by the team formerly behind Gatsby. [Version 1.0 has just been released](https://mastra.ai/blog/announcing-mastra-1) which makes it possible to bundle agents and workflows into existing Express, Hono, Fastify, and Koa apps using several new adapter packages. - With [Electron 40.0](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-40-0), the popular cross-platform desktop app framework upgrades to Chromium 144, V8 14.4, and Node 24.11.1. - 📊 _HTTP Archive_ has released its [latest _Web Almanac_ for 2025](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/) packed with raw stats, trends, and observations about the state of the Web over the past year, covering areas like [WebAssembly](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/webassembly), [performance](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/performance), and ever-increasing [page weight](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/page-weight). - A fun read about [the techniques involved in rendering graphics using ASCII text.](https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering) - OK, it's nothing to do with _our_ React, but it's neat to see [ReactOS celebrate its 30th birthday.](https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/) It's an open source Windows-compatible OS, and after thirty years it can run quite a lot of (admittedly mostly XP-era) Windows applications. 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