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Plus some novel animated components, JSON Alexander, and React patterns people realized were overkill.

#​470 — April 17, 2026

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TanStack Start Adds React Server Components Support — The full-stack framework adds RSC support with an 'isomorphic-first' twist: RSCs render to streams you fetch and cache like any other data, not a server-owned tree. No use server directive (by design, post-CVEs), plus Composite Components that let the client fill slots the server leaves open.

Schiller, Linsley, and Herrington

Ship React Native Apps on Fire TV — Build apps for Fire TV with ease. Get started by installing the Vega OS SDK, configure Vega Studio, and clone the React Native Hello World sample app. Explore media playback, navigation, and Fire TV APIs. 

Amazon sponsor

IN BRIEF:

The Vertical Codebase — A components/, hooks/, and utils/ folder structure feels tidy at first, but gets harder to live with over time. Dominik makes the case for a vertical, domain-first structure, pulling examples from Sentry’s own codebase.

Dominik Dorfmeister

Running React Apps on Salesforce with Multi-Framework — Building apps on Salesforce's CRM platform has required devs to use its own frameworks, but its new “Multi-Framework” runtime lets you take existing React apps and run them inside Salesforce, with the platform’s auth and data access layered in.

Watkins, Oh, and Lane (Salesforce)

📄 How to Recreate the Omnichord for the iPad with React Native – An electronic instrument made by Suzuki in the 1980s. Georgia Martinez

📄 Building a Blog with TanStack Start – A good old-fashioned walkthrough tutorial, leaning on TanStack Start. Adam Rackis

📄 A Guide to React Native Build Optimization The Mythical Engineer

🛠  Code, Tools & Libraries

🖼️ React Photo Album: Responsive Photo Gallery Component — Display a gallery of photos oriented in rows, columns, or with a masonry-style layout. Works with React 18+ and is SSR-friendly. Naturally there are examples with code and a playground to let you see how different settings render.

Igor Danchenko

Animata: Almost 200 Animated React Components — A huge suite of animation-focused React components, built with Tailwind CSS. The docs include demos for the whole suite which includes animated beams, spreading cards, a Slack-style intro screen, and glitching text. A novel suite of ideas you won’t find in many other collections.

Codse

Mobile Development Shouldn't Feel Like 2010 — Expo brings the web DX to native. Fast Refresh on device. Cloud builds from the CLI. One command to create, build, and ship.

Expo sponsor

📸 VisionCamera 5.0: An Advanced Camera for React Native Apps — Whether it’s for photos, videos, capturing QR codes, or object/face detection, VisionCamera is a worthy option. v5.0 replaces JSI/C++ code with Nitro, making it faster, has a new Constraints API, adds the ability to keep photos in-memory, plus gets a new docs site.

Marc Rousavy

og-check: Test OpenGraph Locally Before You Go Public — If you’re building locally, tools like Facebook’s Sharing Debugger won’t work, but this new command line tool lets you test your OpenGraph tags locally and see what the public will see before you deploy.

Simon Hartcher

📰 Classifieds

🎟️ React Norway 350 seats. No fluff. Learn from Vercel, Auth0, Amazon, Sentry, etc developers + live concert. Don’t miss it, Jun 5th, Oslo. (10% off with code: rs2026)

📸 Add robust in-browser barcode scanning to your web apps using STRICH, a lean JS library. Free 30-day trial, try the demo app today!

Flaky tests slowing down dev? Meticulous gives engineers confidence to ship faster by autonomously testing every edge case of your web app.

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem

  • JSON Alexander (above) is a new JSON viewer extension for Chrome and Firefox from Wes Bos, complete with a snazzy George Costanza logo.

  • Cal Paterson argues dependency cooldowns are individually rational but collectively make us "free-riders" on other users who get hacked first. He suggests upload queues at package indexes as a better solution.

  • From June, Google will penalize sites that 'hijack' the back button in search results. Don't do anything to "interfere with a user's ability to navigate their browser history," says Chris Nelson.

  • Bun v1.3.12 has been released with native, headless browser automation built in, and Bun.cron provides an in-process task scheduler.

  • Node.js 24.15.0 (LTS) makes require(esm) and the module compile cache stable and adds --max-heap-size.

  • TanStack Router, Start, and Query have added support for the Solid 2.0 beta.

  • 🇫🇷 dotJS returns to Paris, France this September 18 – its CFP is open for two more weeks if you'd like to speak.

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