Plus Expo SDK 55, how to get started making Meta Quest apps with React Native, and Bun's new ability to package apps into self-contained HTML files.

#​464 — February 27, 2026

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How Cloudflare Rebuilt Next.js with AI in a Weekvinext is an experimental, Vite-based reimplementation of Next.js’s API surface, letting existing apps run in alternative environments like, say, Cloudflare Workers, if with some tradeoffs. Early reactions have been mostly positive, but the timing of Vercel’s Migrate to Vercel from Cloudflare page hasn't gone unnoticed, and Guillermo Rauch noted Vercel already identified some security vulnerabilities… 😅

Steve Faulkner (Cloudflare)

💡 The post says "we already have customers running it in production" but then "it has not yet been battle-tested with any meaningful traffic at scale". 🤔

Stop Shipping Stale Dashboard Data — If your dashboard depends on a pipeline, users see stale data. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so analytics runs on live data. Hypertables, 95% compression, continuous aggregates—real-time results, no second database. Start building for free.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

 The React Foundation Has Launched — React, React Native, and JSX are now owned not by Meta, but by an independent foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation. A variety of major companies in the React ecosystem (Meta, Vercel, Microsoft, etc.) form the inaugural board, with Seth Webster as executive director.

The React Team

Creating Query Abstractions — The thirty-second part of Dominik’s React Query series explains why wrapping useQuery in a custom hook is the wrong abstraction, and how the queryOptions API solves both type inference problems and non-component use cases.

Dominik Dorfmeister

React Native Comes to Meta Quest — If you don’t want to take out a second mortgage to buy an Apple Vision Pro, Meta’s Quest device is a neat alternative that’s officially supported by React Native. Developers from Callstack and Meta show off how to get started here.

Chludziński, Jaworski, and Leyendecker

Life's Too Short to Hand-Write API Types: OpenAPI-Driven React — Solve the problem of frontend and backend type drift by using an OpenAPI specification as the source of truth. Hey API does most of the heavy lifting, while MSW handles type-safe network mocking and Zod validates everything.

Yuri Mikhin

Vercel Bill Too High? Switch to Cloud 66 for React — Get Vercel-like ease on your own cloud. Save up to 60%, enjoy amazing support, and never migrate again.

Cloud 66 sponsor

📄 Building Design Components with Action Props using Async React Aurora Scharff

🤖 How to Set Up Your Next.js Project for AI Coding Agents Vercel

📄 Building JSON Schema-Driven Forms in React Elena Gorbatkova

🛠  Code, Tools & Libraries

Yoopta Editor 6.0: A Headless Rich Text Editor for React — A MIT-licensed library for creating block-based, Notion-style rich text editing experiences. It’s headless at heart, but comes with a variety of plugins, block types and pre-built UI components so you can get something running quickly. This playground shows off a live example.

Akhmed Ibragimov

Expo SDK 55 Released: The React Native Framework — The most popular React Native framework bumps up to React Native 0.83 and React 19.2, revamps its default project template, drops support for RN’s legacy architecture, adds optional support for Hermes v1 (as an opt-in feature), and more. There’s an upgrade guide for existing users.

Hughes and Vatne (Expo)

react-native-enriched-markdown 0.3: Markdown Text for React Native — Render Markdown content as native text without needing a webview. v0.3 adds GFM support (tables, task lists, and autolinks) and full right-to-left (RTL) layout support.

Software Mansion

📰 Classifieds

📸 Add robust 1D/2D barcode scanning to your web app with STRICH. Easy integration, simple pricing. Free trial and demo app available.

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem