--- title: "facebook/react is out, react/react is in" publication: "React Status" issue: 478 published_at: "2026-06-12" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/478" --- Plus Robin Wieruch's list of React libraries and tools for 2026 is here. #​478 — June 12, 2026 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/478) Together with [![Meticulous\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_2600,h_373/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:30/s65exulzcd60xe2r5nyk.png)](https://www.meticulous.ai/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=26q2&utm_content=primary) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/zaju0v6agbfn2fezvpdc.jpg)](https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-libraries/) [React Libraries and Tools for 2026](https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-libraries/) — 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 [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/baa20fa9.png)](https://www.meticulous.ai/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=26q2&utm_content=primary) [Still Writing Tests Manually? Meticulous AI Is Here](https://www.meticulous.ai/?utm_source=reactstatus&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=26q2&utm_content=primary) — 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...](https://react.foundation/) — The _React Foundation_ [launched in February](https://react.dev/blog/2026/02/24/the-react-foundation) 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`](https://github.com/react/react) on GitHub**too. The Linux Foundation **IN BRIEF:** - 🤖 The framework and provider-agnostic AI toolkit [TanStack AI is now in beta](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-ai-beta), as is [TanStack Table v9](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-taking-form). - Remco Haszing has proposed [returning a disposable from `useEffect` and `useLayoutEffect`](https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/278) instead of a callback function. - [React Native 0.86.0](https://github.com/react/react-native/releases/tag/v0.86.0) has been released, as has [React Native Windows v0.83](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/%f0%9f%9a%80react-native-windows-v0-83-is-here/). [Stripping Ads from the Kindle's React Native Homepage](https://sighery.com/posts/patching-kindle-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](https://aurorascharff.no/posts/building-an-active-navlink-component-in-nextjs/) – A very comprehensive walkthrough. Aurora Scharff 📄 [The Best Loading States Are No Loading States](https://jjenzz.com/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](https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/updating-react-parents-in-response-to-changes-in-children/) Jay Freestone 🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/c9w5mttaisyanqcj3n5c.jpg)](https://visx.airbnb.tech/) 📊 [visx 4.0: Airbnb's Visualization Primitives for React](https://visx.airbnb.tech/) — _“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](https://visx.airbnb.tech/gallery), and there’s an [upgrade guide](https://github.com/airbnb/visx/blob/master/MIGRATION.md) for existing v3 users. Airbnb [The Best Stack for a Money-Making Mobile App in 2026](https://try.expo.dev/app-monetization) — 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](https://pdfslick.dev/) — A full-featured PDF viewer [with React bindings](https://pdfslick.dev/docs/react). Built on PDF.js, it handles everything from simple viewing to annotations and juggling multiple large documents. [Demo.](https://pdfslick.dev/examples/pdf-viewer-app) Vancho Stojkov [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/bokip5akj9lnpb2y87a5.jpg)](https://gre.github.io/bezier-easing-editor/) - [bezier-easing-editor 1.1](https://github.com/gre/bezier-easing-editor) _(above)_ – React component for visually editing Bézier curves. [Live demo.](https://gre.github.io/bezier-easing-editor/) - 📺 [React Lite YouTube Embed 3.6](https://github.com/ibrahimcesar/react-lite-youtube-embed) – A tiny, privacy-friendly way to embed YouTube videos without a performance hit. - [react-native-network-logger 3.0](https://github.com/alexbrazier/react-native-network-logger) – HTTP traffic monitor/request logger for React Native with in-app viewer for iOS and Android. - [react-native-compressor 2.0](https://github.com/numandev1/react-native-compressor) – Compress images, videos and audio prior to upload, like many social apps do. - [React Native Testing Library 14.0](https://github.com/callstack/react-native-testing-library/releases/tag/v14.0.0) – Note that React 19+ and React Native 0.78+ are now required. - [react-redux-firebase 4.0](https://github.com/prescottprue/react-redux-firebase) – Redux bindings for Firebase. Now supports React 19. - [MUI (Material UI) 9.1.0](https://github.com/mui/material-ui/releases/tag/v9.1.0) – The component suite adds support for `prefers-reduced-motion`. 📰 Classifieds 📱 [Clerk now ships prebuilt Org management for iOS and Android](https://go.clerk.com/bH85RC1): account switching, member management, and invite flows — all native. 📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/ik3o5cphjgwepp8vokto.jpg)](https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/) - 😆 [performative-ui](https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/) 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](https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/#/components/ascii-hero) and [node graph backgrounds](https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/#/components/node-graph). - Alistair Davidson writes about [how building an HTML-first site doubled user submissions overnight](https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/) after a failed and expensive attempt with React. - At WWDC this week, Apple [released the beta of Safari 27](https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-safari-27-beta/) and it's packed with features, including customizable `