#471 — April 24, 2026 |
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A Guide to React Compiler Rendering — Redux maintainer Mark Erikson shares his slide deck from React Miami that starts with the fundamentals of React’s rendering process and moves on to optimization techniques, what React Compiler is, and demystifies what it does. It's a slide deck, but an educational one. Mark Erikson |
🏖️ React Miami is taking place now, but we'll link to the video once it's up. |
Still Writing Tests Manually? Meticulous AI Is Here — Notion, Dropbox, Wiz and LaunchDarkly now use a testing paradigm they can’t work without. Built by former Palantir engineers, Meticulous automatically creates an evolving suite of E2E UI tests, delivering exhaustive coverage with no developer effort. Meticulous sponsor |
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TSRX: A TypeScript Language Extension for Declarative UIs — “You can think of TSRX as a spiritual successor to JSX,” says former React team member Dominic. The language compiles to React, Preact, Solid and Ripple, and includes control flow, scoped styles, and locals. There’s a playground if you want to see how it compiles to React. Dominic Gannaway |
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IN BRIEF:
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😱 The Vercel Breach That Started with a Roblox Cheat — By way of an employee at a tool provider used by a Vercel employee, hackers got access to a subset of Vercel customers' environment variables. If you're a Vercel user and haven't looked into sensitive environment variables yet, now's the time. Vercel |
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Building Non-Blocking UIs with Deepanshu Rana (Rubrik) |
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That Slow Dashboard? It's Not a React Problem — Continuous aggregates keep dashboards fresh without rebuilding rollups. Live data straight from Postgres. Try for free. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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📺 Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More – An interview with Jimmy Lai and Tim Neutkens of the Next.js project on how Adapters will simplify Next.js app deployment. Syntax FM Podcast 📄 Building the Maxima Therapy Website: React, GSAP, and Dabbling with AI – A design-oriented case study. The end result is intense but cute. Nicolas Garnier 📄 3 Ways to Store Variables in React & Why You Shouldn't Sleep on 📄 How Hipcamp Upgraded Expo SDK Versions with Claude Code Armaiz Adenwala (Hipcamp) 📺 Five Ways to SSR/RSC on TanStack Start – And in just ten minutes. Jack Herrington |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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React Arborist 3.5: A Tree View Component for React — If you want something like a sidebar you might see in VS Code, Finder, or Gmail, this provides everything in one component, including folders, drag and drop sorting, filtering, keyboard navigation, and more. Demos. James Kerr |
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✉️ React Email 6.0: Now an Open-Source Email Editor Too — Starting life as a collection of unstyled components for creating good-looking emails using React and Tailwind, React Email now offers an extensible visual editor to add email creation to your app. There are also some new email templates ready to go. Woznica, Miranda, Melo and Fernandes |
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React Tooltip 6.0: An Easy-to-Use Tooltip Component — There’s a getting started tutorial and an upgrade guide for existing users. GitHub repo. ReactTooltip Team |
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Pastel 4.0: A Framework for Building Ink Apps — Ink brings the power of JSX and React components to building command line apps. Pastel provides more structure on top of that in a Next.js-esque fashion. Vadim Demedes |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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