Issue #478: facebook/react is out, react/react is in

#478 — June 12, 2026

Together with

React Libraries and Tools for 2026 — Each year, Robin updates his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries. As always, he runs the gamut, from how to spin up a new React app, through to UI, animation, and form libraries, testing, i18n, state management, and more.

Robin Wieruch

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

The React Foundation's New Website and... — The React Foundation launched in February taking over the ownership and management of React from Meta. All the pieces are continuing to come together with this new site, and facebook/react now forwards to react/react on GitHub too.

The Linux Foundation

IN BRIEF:

🤖 The framework and provider-agnostic AI toolkit TanStack AI is now in beta, as is TanStack Table v9.
Remco Haszing has proposed returning a disposable from useEffect and useLayoutEffect instead of a callback function.
React Native 0.86.0 has been released, as has React Native Windows v0.83.

Stripping Ads from the Kindle's React Native Homepage — TIL Amazon has been moving the Kindle device UI to React Native. That opens up some interesting Hermes-bytecode-level reverse-engineering opportunities.

Nicholas Tarta

📄 Building an Active NavLink Component in Next.js – A very comprehensive walkthrough. Aurora Scharff

📄 The Best Loading States Are No Loading States – Skip the skeletons: preload before navigation, then transition when ready. Jenna Smith

📄 When React Parent Components Need to Know Their Children Jay Freestone

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

📊 visx 4.0: Airbnb's Visualization Primitives for React — “If you know React, you can make visualizations.” The long-standing visualization component suite is back with full React 19 support. You can see what all the components do here, and there’s an upgrade guide for existing v3 users.

Airbnb

The Best Stack for a Money-Making Mobile App in 2026 — Real monetization data, the mobile stack that actually ships, and why React Native apps drive more revenue than native.

Expo sponsor

📃 PDFSlick 4.0: View and Interact with PDF Documents — A full-featured PDF viewer with React bindings. Built on PDF.js, it handles everything from simple viewing to annotations and juggling multiple large documents. Demo.

Vancho Stojkov

bezier-easing-editor 1.1 (above) – React component for visually editing Bézier curves. Live demo.
📺 React Lite YouTube Embed 3.6 – A tiny, privacy-friendly way to embed YouTube videos without a performance hit.
react-native-network-logger 3.0 – HTTP traffic monitor/request logger for React Native with in-app viewer for iOS and Android.
react-native-compressor 2.0 – Compress images, videos and audio prior to upload, like many social apps do.
React Native Testing Library 14.0 – Note that React 19+ and React Native 0.78+ are now required.
react-redux-firebase 4.0 – Redux bindings for Firebase. Now supports React 19.
MUI (Material UI) 9.1.0 – The component suite adds support for prefers-reduced-motion.

📰 Classifieds

📱 Clerk now ships prebuilt Org management for iOS and Android: account switching, member management, and invite flows — all native.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

😆 performative-ui is a fun set of React components to 'signal how oversubscribed your funding round is' with all the AI company clichés, like ASCII hero art and node graph backgrounds.
Alistair Davidson writes about how building an HTML-first site doubled user submissions overnight after a failed and expensive attempt with React.
At WWDC this week, Apple released the beta of Safari 27 and it's packed with features, including customizable <select> elements, scroll anchoring, and an all-new standards-compliant ESM loader.
Get ready for your Electron apps to become faster! Electron 43 is now in beta with the main process booting from an embedded Node.js startup snapshot and bundles cached as V8 bytecode.