--- title: "Building bulletproof React components and handling billion-row tables" publication: "React Status" issue: 462 published_at: "2026-02-13" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/462" --- Plus embedding mind-boggling terminal UIs in a React app, TypeScript 6.0 Beta lands, and a generative UI toolkit that uses your own components. #​462 — February 13, 2026 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/462) Together with [![Frontend Masters logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_300,h_70/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/nk0tfdvalivacz8rw7rt.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts-v3/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=reactstatus&utm_content=jshardpartsv3) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/xwgdmp5juj69nmnjhfgj.jpg)](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US) [The Latest _State of React_ Survey Results](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US) — The latest annual community survey collected the opinions and preferences of almost 4,000 developers giving us insights into [UI library preferences](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/libraries/component-libraries/), [data visualization libraries](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/libraries/component-libraries/#data_visualization_libraries), [authentication](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/other-tools/#auth), the use of [alternative renderers](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/other-tools/#renderers), and the biggest [pain points in React’s core APIs.](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/features/#main_apis_pain_points) Aurora Scharff wrote [a conclusion piece](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/conclusion/) rounding up React’s strong year. 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An elegant, no-nonsense guide from the co-creator of [SWR](https://swr.vercel.app/) and creator of Vercel’s [React Best Practices](https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/react-best-practices) skill. Shu Ding **IN BRIEF:** - [TypeScript 6.0 is now in beta.](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-beta/) It acts as a bridge to the eventual Go-based TypeScript 7, but packs in a few changes that could trip you up. - [ESLint v10.0 is out](https://eslint.org/blog/2026/02/eslint-v10.0.0-released/) and now tracks JSX references, enabling correct scope analysis of JSX elements. - [Bun v1.3.9](https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.3.9) has been released with a faster, [more efficient `Bun.markdown.react()`](https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.3.9#faster-bun-markdown-react). - ✏️ Rick Hanlon is [working on an extensive rewrite](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8284) of the `useActionState` docs. You can [see an early draft here.](https://github.com/rickhanlonii/react.dev/blob/58b6c16b63ce764e2545447239f2491ea45f7470/src/content/reference/react/useActionState.md) [React Native 0.84: Now Hermes V1 by Default](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2026/02/11/react-native-0.84) — Hermes V1 is now the default JS engine on iOS and Android, improving performance and reducing memory usage. iOS ships with precompiled binaries, cutting build times. Under the hood, everything now runs on React 19.2.3. Hunt, Lee, et al. [Implementing Virtual Scrolling at Billion-Row Scale](https://rednegra.net/blog/20260212-virtual-scroll/) — A technical walkthrough of building a table component ([HighTable](https://github.com/hyparam/hightable)) that handles billions of rows while deftly handling browser DOM limits, scrollbar precision problems, and accessibility constraints, coupled with plenty of diagrams and demos. 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Jeffrey Emanuel [Tambo 1.0: A Generative UI Toolkit for React](https://tambo.co/blog/posts/introducing-tambo-generative-ui) — Give an agent your existing components and it picks and customizes the right ones for tasks users want to perform. It’s open source, but the project is backed by a commercial offering for the server-side part (you can self-host it for free). [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/tambo-ai/tambo) Michael Milstead 💡 Vercel's [json-render](https://json-render.dev/) covers similar ground but at a lower level. 🏎️ [Rari: Runtime-Accelerated Rendering Infrastructure](https://rari.build/) — A React Server Components framework but with a Rust-powered server runtime, aiming for higher throughput and lower latency. The [getting started guide](https://rari.build/docs/getting-started) will help you get the idea. 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It also provides a cool way to [quickly compare packages.](https://npmx.dev/compare?packages=zustand,jotai) - [How to Make an HTTP Request in Node.js](https://nodejsdesignpatterns.com/blog/nodejs-http-request/) covers a _lot_ of ground on using `fetch` productively, not just the basics. - 📊 Data from over 100,000 sites was boiled down into [a report on modern CSS usage.](https://www.projectwallace.com/the-css-selection/2026) The median number of CSS rules per site was 2,802, with one page somehow using a whopping 210,695 rules. - [The _Windows XP_ experience, recreated with React!](https://react-xp.jamiepates.com/) Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon. A **[Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/)** publication. [Change your email address](https://react.statuscode.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or[Stop getting this newsletter](https://react.statuscode.com/leave/*|UID|*) © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom