Issue #475: RSCs in TanStack: better than Next.js?

#475 — May 22, 2026

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Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A code-based comparison of numerous frameworks (including React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Ember, and more obscure options) using snippets for performing common tasks. Recent updates have extended Angular and Svelte coverage, plus added Ripple and Ember Polaris to the mix.

Mathieu Schimmerling

RSCs in TanStack: A Different (and Arguably Better) Take — “The implementation is radically different, and in my opinion, better than the RSC implementation you’ve likely seen in Next.js.”

Adam Rackis

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IN BRIEF:

Storybook 10.4 – the frontend component workshop – has added first-class TanStack React support, cleaner React Native setup, and the ability for AI agents to automatically set up Storybook in complex apps.
🗣️ Reddit's /r/reactjs discussed why people are moving from Next.js to TanStack Start.
Redux Toolkit v2.12.0 and React Redux 9.3.0 have been released.

🤖 Migrating an Express App to Next.js Using Agents — James (who works on Antigravity at Google) demonstrates how to modernize a legacy Express.js app to Next.js App Router, TypeScript, MongoDB, Zod, and shadcn/ui. It’s all orchestrated using these skills which could be used with other, non-Google agents too.

James O'Reilly (Google)

💡 Google has deprecated Gemini CLI, replacing it with the new Antigravity CLI.

🤖 Mark Erikson's Agent Setup, Workflow, and Tools — Mark, well known for maintaining Redux and creating Redux Toolkit, digs deep into his daily dev workflow, including his use of OpenCode and how he manages his workflow.

Mark Erikson

📄 Structural Sharing, selectAtom, and Why Your Jotai Atoms Re-Render Too Much Peter Piekarczyk

📄 Moving Away From Tailwind, and Learning to Structure My CSS Julia Evans

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

GL-React v6: Create WebGL Shaders from React — Provides a straightforward abstraction for creating WebGL shaders with React and JSX. Gaëtan is an experienced generative and shader artist and there are lots of examples complete with code to enjoy here.

Gaëtan Renaudeau

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💡 Expo SDK 56 has also just been released with Expo UI now considered ready for production.

Hot Updater: Self-Hosted Over-the-Air Updates for React Native — A way to deploy updates to apps without app store submissions. The latest update adds bundle diffing for smaller, more efficient updates.

Sungyu Kang

Relay 21.0: Meta’s Data-Fetching Framework for React — Relay, Meta’s declarative GraphQL-based data fetching framework used in Facebook itself, adds first-party TypeScript support, new error handling capabilities, and experimental React Server Components support.

Facebook / Meta

🗓️ SVAR Calendar: A Calendar Component for React, Svelte and Vue — A flexible calendar component with a MIT-licensed core and extended commercial version. Here are some demos of the React version.

XB Software Sp. z o.o.

💡 Schedule-X is another great option in this space and v4.6 just landed.

Rockpack 8.0.0 – A tool for quickly setting up a React app with full support for Server-Side Rendering, bundling, linting, and testing. v8.0 now supports ESLint 10, TypeScript 6, and Tailwind CSS v4.
React Native Zip Archive 8.0 – Zip archive functions for React Native apps.

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🔑 Clerk API Keys are GA. Users can generate credentials that delegate API access on their behalf. Verify server-side, revoke instantly.

Trigger.dev handles queues, retries, and long-running tasks so you can build production-ready agents and TypeScript workflows reliably at scale.

Build AR/VR apps in React Native — no Unity, no new language. ReactVision Studio has a visual scene editor, prompt‑to‑3D asset gen, Meta Quest support, and works with Expo. Try free.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

🤖 Google unveiled Modern Web Guidance at I/O this week. It's a set of expert-vetted skills to guide coding agents to build accessible and performant web experiences, e.g. "Set up my app to begin preloading pages when users hover over important links."
npq is a tool that makes npm install safer. It sits in front of npm and audits packages prior to installation, including warning about pre/post-install scripts.
Node.js has a new official codemod for migrating from Axios to fetch.