Vite 8.0 Released — A mega release for the popular build tool. Designed to be a smooth upgrade, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes: @vitejs/plugin-react v6 no longer needs Babel (Oxc steps up), Rolldown replaces Rollup and esbuild, Wasm SSR support, browser console forwarding to the terminal, and huge perf improvements. Great news for Remix, TanStack Start, and Astro users!

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Expo Router v55 Makes React Devs at Home in React Native — Expo Router ships iOS, Android, and web from one file-based routing tree. No WebViews, no pkg-spaghetti, just sensible defaults and carefully designed components.

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How we Rewrote 130K Lines from React to Svelte in Two Weeks — Over on Bluesky, Rich Harris referenced the idea that LLMs could lock everyone into the most popular framework, but in reality they make switching between frameworks easier than ever before.

Strawberry

shadcn/cli v4 Released — shadcn/ui's CLI tool gets an upgrade aimed at humans and agents with 'skills' to improve agent performance, presets to pack a design system config into a simple ID (and switch between them), 'dry runs' to see what a registry will add prior to doing it, and shadcn/create is rebuilt with a set of components for fast preset previews.

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An Empirical Study of Frontend Memory Leaks — Analysis of 500 repos (210 of which were React apps) for common patterns that lead to memory leaks. Missing timer cleanups and event listener removals made up the majority of problems found.

Ko-Hsin Liang

18 Months of Code, Gone: Here's What We Learned — Why a development team decided to discard Next.js and Server Actions, opting for a new stack oriented around TanStack Start and Hono.

Tom Piaggio

A Practical Checklist for B2B Enterprise Readiness — Measure gaps in auth, admin UX, security, monitoring, and architecture for landing enterprise customers. Download today!

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RedwoodSDK 1.0 Released: The Cloudflare-Native React Framework — RedwoodSDK, essentially a full reboot of the former RedwoodJS, is a server-first React framework, built as a Vite plugin, that integrates deeply with the Cloudflare platform (why?) and its provision of workers, databases (D1), durable objects, storage (R2), AI APIs, etc.

Peter Pistorius

Reveal.js 6.0: The HTML Presentation Framework Adds React — A long-standing way to bring elegant presentations to anyone with a browser. v6.0 notably introduces an official React wrapper explained in detail here, meaning you can build your slides in React component form.

Hakim El Hattab

Bippy: A Toolkit for Hacking into React Internals — Pretends to be React’s devtools to get access to various internals, without needing any code modifications on your app’s part.

Aiden Bai

React Native View Recorder: Capture Views to a Video or Image — Capture any React Native View to a video or an image. Add your own audio. Ideal for creating shareable content in your apps. GitHub repo.

Antonín Wingender

Number Flow React Native: Beautiful Number Animations — High-quality number animations for React Native apps, with digit-by-digit rolling counters and Intl.NumberFormat support. GitHub repo.

Antonín Wingender

Hit Area: Tailwind CSS Utility Classes to Expand Hit Areas — Adds hit-area-* utility classes to increase the area around controls which response to user actions. Distributed via the shadcn registry.

Kian Bazarjani