---
title: "React Router v8 is boring but good"
publication: "React Status"
issue: 479
published_at: "2026-06-19"
canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/479"
---

Plus Rust React Compiler support begins to roll out, React Native 0.86 is here, and WordPress's React 19 woes.        

#​479 — June 19, 2026 

[Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/479)  

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[React Router v8: An Intentionally 'Boring' Release](https://remix.run/blog/react-router-v8) — A round-up of the state of [React Router](https://reactrouter.com/), all the new features since v7, v6 going EOL, and why to stick with React Router over the [new, shiny Remix](https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview) when you need a proven solution. Sometimes 'boring' is just what your app needs! 

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**IN BRIEF:** 

- **The [Rust-port of React Compiler](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173) has been merged!** Support is already landing in popular projects, like [in Next.js](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/94573) (already in [canary](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/upgrading#canary-version)), [Oxlint 1.70](https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/rules/react/react-compiler.html), [swc](https://github.com/swc-project/swc/pull/11917) and [Rolldown](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/pull/9801).
- [React Native 0.86](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2026/06/11/react-native-0.86) has been released with edge-to-edge support on Android 15+ and DevTools improvements.
- WordPress announced it's [upgrading to React 19](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/05/27/react-19-upgrade-in-wordpress/) in WordPress 7.1, but [this has now been temporarily reverted](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/06/05/react-19-upgrade-temporarily-reverted-in-gutenberg/) due to plugin compatibility problems.
- 📊 Expo has unveiled [a (free) open beta of _EAS Observe_](https://expo.dev/blog/introducing-observe), its performance monitoring/observability service for React Native apps.
- The [release candidate of TypeScript 7.0](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/) has been released.   

[Can Signals Make _React Redux_ Faster at Scale?](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2318) — A PR by Mark Erikson where he experiments with signals-based `SignalProvider` and `useSignalSelector` drop-ins that only re-run selectors for components whose state actually changed, with some noteworthy performance gains. 

Mark Erikson   

[Wasp Now Lets You Write Your Full-Stack Logic as a TypeScript Spec](https://wasp.sh/blog/2026/06/15/wasp-typescript-spec) — The ‘batteries-included’ React, Node and Prisma [Wasp](https://wasp.sh/) full-stack framework has switched its spec layer from its own custom language to TypeScript. Specify the shape of your app [like this](https://wasp.sh/blog/2026/06/15/wasp-typescript-spec#the-wasp-typescript-spec) and Wasp compiles it, with your frontend/backend code, into a full-stack app. 

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📄 [TanStack Start: A Mental Model for Next.js Developers](https://www.adarsha.dev/blog/tanstack-mental-model-for-nextjs-developers) – Maps TanStack Start onto Next.js concepts with side-by-side code comparisons. Adarsha Acharya 

📄 [How We Cut Slow Responses by 80% Migrating to Next.js App Router](https://dev.to/subito/how-we-cut-slow-responses-by-80-migrating-to-nextjs-app-router-37da) – A classifieds site moved from Pages Router to App Router, cut slow responses, and tackled some Nginx and Akamai HTML streaming gotchas. Francesca Milan (Subito) 

📄 [When React Hooks Stop Scaling: Moving Complex State to Zustand](https://orizens.com/blog/2026-06-18-zustand/) Oren Farhi 

📄 [TypeScript Performance in TanStack Table V9](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-typescript-performance) Kevin Van Cott 

📄 [React Native Needs a New Video Player](https://www.mux.com/blog/react-native-needs-a-new-video-player) Joshua Alphonse  

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries 

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[React Props First: Prioritize JSX & TSX Props in VS Code Autocomplete](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yurii.react-props-first) — A VS Code extension that reorders JSX and TSX autocomplete so component-specific props appear before inherited DOM and ARIA attributes. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/yuriipalam/react-props-first) 

Yurii   

[Base UI 1.6: Unstyled UI Components for React](https://base-ui.com/) — A successor to Radix (by the same creators) for building UIs in your own style atop a strong foundation (`shadcn/ui` now [builds on top of it](https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog/2026-01-base-ui), too). [See all the components here](https://base-ui.com/react/components/accordion) with code samples. v1.6 introduces [a one-time password component](https://base-ui.com/react/components/otp-field), improves the [Drawer](https://base-ui.com/react/components/drawer), and the docs were redesigned. 

Base UI Team   

[React Doctor as a GitHub Action for Automatic Reviews](https://www.react.doctor/docs/ci-and-prs/github-actions-setup) — [React Doctor](https://www.react.doctor/) is a CLI tool that scans React codebases for issues, returning a list of said issues and a score out of 100. Here’s how to set it up on GitHub Actions. 

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React review changed when AI started writing the JSX. [AgentField](https://agentfield.ai/blog/ai-native-code-review/?utm_source=react&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=react-260619&utm_id=react-260619-blog-ai-native-code-review&utm_content=blog-ai-native-code-review) breaks down the four jobs of code review - and which three get harder once AI writes the diff. [→ Read the post](https://agentfield.ai/blog/ai-native-code-review/?utm_source=react&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=react-260619&utm_id=react-260619-blog-ai-native-code-review&utm_content=blog-ai-native-code-review).     

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- [React Flow Smart Edge 4.9](https://tisoap.github.io/react-flow-smart-edge/docs) _(above)_ – A custom 'edge' type for [React Flow](https://reactflow.dev/) that uses A* pathfinding and never intersects with other nodes.
- [Ink 7.1](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/releases/tag/v7.1.0) – The popular TUI renderer [adds `suspendTerminal()`](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/pull/972) for temporarily handing the terminal over to a child process (like an editor, say).
- 📱 [Voltra 2.0](https://www.use-voltra.dev/) – Build Live Activities & widgets in iOS/Android React Native apps. [v2.0](https://github.com/callstackincubator/voltra/releases/tag/v2.0.0) no longer requires Expo Modules.
- [StyleX 0.19.0](https://github.com/facebook/stylex/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#0190-jun-14-2026) – Meta's styling system adds a new package for inline atomic styles, plus ESLint 10 compatibility.
- [MUI X 9.6](https://github.com/mui/mui-x/releases/tag/v9.6.0) – The popular component suite rolls out bug fixes and improvements to radial bar charts.
- 📊 [react-plotly.js 4.0](https://github.com/plotly/react-plotly.js/releases/tag/v4.0.0) – Component for rendering interactive [Plotly](https://plotly.com/javascript/) charts.
- [React Aria 1.19.0](https://react-aria.adobe.com/releases/v1-19-0) – Adobe's accessible component suite.         

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