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Plus an agent framework with React-like hooks, a WebMCP hook from Chrome, and a star-studded React conference in Spain.

#​486 — August 7, 2026

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TanStack Table v9: A Faster, More Modular Foundation — Arriving four years after v8, the popular headless table library gets a tree-shakable architecture where you register only what you need (so a pagination-only table, say, ships no filtering/grouping code). State moves to TanStack Store for fine-grained reactivity, and there are big memory wins for large datasets.

Kevin Van Cott

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Next.js 16.3 Released — The newly expanded Next.js team (now including Dan Abramov and 𝕏 Pete Hunt!) has dropped the latest version of the popular React framework, complete with faster builds, optional TypeScript 7 type checking, faster SSR, Instant Navigations, AI improvements, and more.

The Next.js Team

💡 Vercel has put together a guide to its support for Next.js 16.3 and the efficiency gains seen from its new features.

IN BRIEF:

  • Upgraded to React Router v8 yet? React Router v9 is now under discussion and you're invited to comment with questions or changes you'd like to see.

  • 🇪🇸 React Alicante takes place this September 24-26 in Spain. Mark Erikson, Aurora Scharff, Dominik Dorfmeister, and Matteo Collina are on the speaker list.

  • shadcn has added a new Questionnaire component (in Base UI, React Aria, and Radix UI flavors) for rendering multi-step questionnaires.

  • 🇩🇪 reactCon is a React Native conference taking place in Berlin, October 7-9.

📄 Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol at Building Expo Apps – 2 billion tokens later, Rami calls Fable the winner. Rami Maalouf

📄 TSRX in TanStack Start: What We Like, and Three Bugs We Filed Jamie Davenport

📄 You Should Not Use Relay for Everything Andrei Calazans

🛠  Code, Tools & Libraries

Plate: Build Your Own Rich Text Editor — A framework (with very thorough docs) for building React-based text editors that lets you select the specific features and functionality you need. GitHub repo.

Ziad Beyens

🤖 use-webmcp-tool: A Hook for Using WebMCPWebMCP is a proposed web standard for exposing page-based JavaScript functions for AI agents to use. This hook wraps its usual imperative API for React's declarative approach.

Sarah Drasner (Google Chrome Labs)

rshono: A Minimal Framework for React Server Components — Uses Hono for the server, Rspack for building, and React Server Components for rendering. This brand-new project has similarities to Waku but is simpler and doesn't require Vite.

Lasse Tange

Morphicons: Morphing Library for Stroke-Based Icons — To morph an icon, all you do is change a prop. Works with Lucide, Tabler, Heroicons, Iconoir and the shadcn icon registry. The live demo on the homepage demonstrates the effect.

Guillermo López

📰 Classifieds

What does “taste” actually mean? How can you build it? This blog post explains how to prompt for taste. It’s more approachable than you think.


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📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem

  • 🤖 Fred K. Schott, of Astro fame, has unveiled Flue 2.0, the latest version of his TypeScript-based open agent framework. The novel addition is using React-style hooks (called Agent Hooks – see above) to build dynamic agents that manage their own state.

  • Talking of Astro, Astro 7.2 has been released with experimental incremental static build support (skipping the regeneration of prerendered pages which haven't changed since the last build).

  • ⚠️ Earlier this week, the keyv package was compromised by attackers who injected a credential-stealing worm which spread across 400+ other packages so far.

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