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From Latency to Instant: Improving GitHub Issues Navigation Performance — GitHub rebuilt issue navigation around a local-first, stale-while-revalidate model: render from an IndexedDB cache, revalidate in the background. ~70% of React navigations are now instant & P10 down from 600ms to 70ms. A deep account of the caching & prefetch design on GitHub's React/Rails stack. Alexander Lelidis (GitHub) |
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▶ Why TanStack Start Exists: Tanner Linsley on Competing with Next.js — A candid interview with Tanner Linsley covering a wide variety of topics like TanStack’s business model, Start vs Next.js, and TanStack’s take on being framework agnostic while still focusing on React. Nuno Maduro |
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🔒 Hardening TanStack After the npm Compromise — This week, an attacker published malicious versions of 42 TanStack packages using a novel approach (it affected 170+ other packages too). Here’s what the TanStack team is doing to prevent such issues going forward. The TanStack Team |
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A Technical Deep Dive Into the New Raycast — Raycast is a feature-rich macOS launcher app (imagine Spotlight but 10x) which has long had a React-based extension ecosystem, but now its new v2.0 app has a React frontend too. Nikolaev and Mann (Raycast) |
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📄 Security in React Applications – High-level tips and techniques for securing React apps. Aurora Scharff 📄 RSC Server Functions Are Not An API Boundary Long Ho 📄 The Hidden Cost of <Activity> Peter Piekarczyk |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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MDXEditor 4.0: A Rich Markdown Editor Component — A Lexical-powered Markdown editor for React apps with a wide array of features like code editing, link/image insertion, and table support. The live demo shows off what it can do with all the features enabled. Petyo Ivanov |
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Fate 1.0: A Modern Data Framework for React — A new data framework from former Jest lead and ex-Meta engineer Christoph Nakazawa. Brings normalized caching, view co-location, and single-root-request composition on top of tRPC or native HTTP, with Prisma and now Drizzle support on the server. 1.0 adds live views over SSE, garbage collection, and a Vite plugin. Christoph Nakazawa |
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🤖 React Review: Audit Your Codebase for Bad React Code — From the creator of React Doctor comes a new GitHub App (powered by React Doctor) that fetches both a pull request branch and base branch and reviews and reports on issues introduced in the PR. Aiden Bai et al. |
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Orval: Generate Type-Safe Clients from OpenAPI/Swagger Specs — Given a valid OpenAPI v3 or Swagger v2 spec, generate models, requests, hooks, and mocks for React, Vue, Svelte, and Solid apps and more. Victor Bury |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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