--- title: "TanStack Table v9 and Next.js 16.3" publication: "React Status" issue: 486 published_at: "2026-08-07" canonical_url: "https://react.statuscode.com/issues/486" --- 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 [Read on the Web](https://react.statuscode.com/issues/486) Together with [![Code Rabbit\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_1280,h_187/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:20/hxaajcewmf94f29l9dka.png)](https://coderabbit.link/ad-cooperpress-001) React Status [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/tdvf8n2ypodcj3csupni.jpg)](https://tanstack.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-table-v9) [TanStack Table v9: A Faster, More Modular Foundation](https://tanstack.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-table-v9) — 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](https://tanstack.com/store/latest) for [fine-grained reactivity](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-reactivity), and there are [big memory wins](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-memory-performance) for large datasets. Kevin Van Cott [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/479adce5.png)](https://coderabbit.link/ad-cooperpress-001) [Code Review That Learns How Your Team Ships](https://coderabbit.link/ad-cooperpress-001) — Reply to CodeRabbit in plain English and it remembers, turning your standards into learnings applied to every future PR. Path-based rules, AST instructions and 40+ linters, minus the false-positive noise. Same bar for every PR. CodeRabbit sponsor [Next.js 16.3 Released](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-3) — The newly expanded Next.js team (now including [Dan Abramov](https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3mp5b3nd3ws2k) and [𝕏 Pete Hunt](https://x.com/rauchg/status/2077870043833229692)!) has dropped the latest version of the popular React framework, complete with faster builds, optional TypeScript 7 type checking, faster SSR, [Instant Navigations](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-3-instant-navigations), [AI improvements](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-3-ai-improvements), and more. The Next.js Team 💡 Vercel has put together [a guide to its support for Next.js 16.3](https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-supports-next-js-16-3) and the efficiency gains seen from its new features. **IN BRIEF:** - Upgraded to [React Router v8](https://remix.run/blog/react-router-v8) yet? [React Router v9 is now under discussion](https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/discussions/15371) and you're invited to comment with questions or changes you'd like to see. - 🇪🇸 [React Alicante](https://reactalicante.es/) 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](https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/components/base/questionnaire) (in Base UI, React Aria, and Radix UI flavors) for rendering multi-step questionnaires. - 🇩🇪 [reactCon](https://www.nextappcon.com/reactcon) is a React Native conference taking place in Berlin, October 7-9. 📄 [Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol at Building Expo Apps](https://expo.dev/blog/fable-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol-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](https://www.jxd.dev/blog/tsrx-tanstack-start) Jamie Davenport 📄 [You Should Not Use Relay for Everything](https://andrei-calazans.com/posts/2026-07-30-dont-use-relay-for-everything/) Andrei Calazans 🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/rk6mx0cvwj0ccpzqec7o.jpg)](https://platejs.org/) [Plate: Build Your Own Rich Text Editor](https://platejs.org/) — A framework (with very thorough [docs](https://platejs.org/docs)) for building React-based text editors that lets you select the specific features and functionality you need. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/udecode/plate) Ziad Beyens 🤖 [use-webmcp-tool: A Hook for Using WebMCP](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/use-webmcp-tool) — [WebMCP](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp) 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](https://www.rshono.com/) — Uses Hono for the server, Rspack for building, and React Server Components for rendering. This brand-new project has similarities to [Waku](https://waku.gg/) but is simpler and doesn't require Vite. Lasse Tange [Morphicons: Morphing Library for Stroke-Based Icons](https://www.morphicons.com/) — 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 - [SWR 2.5](https://swr.vercel.app/) – A minimal hook-based data fetching mechanism with caching, revalidation and deduplication. [v2.5](https://github.com/vercel/swr/releases/tag/v2.5.0) adds RSC cache preloading and an `unload()` API to clear the cache and discard in-flight operations. - [React Aria 1.20](https://react-aria.adobe.com/releases/v1-20-0) – Adobe's popular component suite adds new `PreviewTrigger` and `TokenField`components. - [react-dropzone 20.0](https://react-dropzone.js.org/) – React hook providing a standards-compliant drag-and-drop zone for files. Now requires Node 22+. ([Examples](https://react-dropzone.js.org/examples/basic)) - [Base UI 1.7](https://base-ui.com/react/overview/releases/v1-7-0) – The unstyled UI component library that's [shadcn/ui's new default](https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog/2026-07-base-ui-default). - [Astryx 0.3](https://github.com/facebook/astryx/releases/tag/v0.3.0) – Meta's React and StyleX-based design system. ([Homepage](https://astryx.atmeta.com/)) - [Material UI 9.3](https://github.com/mui/material-ui/releases/tag/v9.3.0) – Popular, comprehensive suite of React components. - [react-hcaptcha 2.1](https://github.com/hCaptcha/react-hcaptcha) – Component for the reCAPTCHA alternative. - [React Three Fiber 9.7](https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber/releases/tag/v9.7.0) – React renderer for Three.js. 📰 Classifieds What does “taste” actually mean? How can you build it? [This blog post explains how to prompt for taste](https://try.expo.dev/react-status-ai-design-advice). It’s more approachable than you think. --- ⚡ [Zuplo](https://zuplo.link/iRC6nqO) puts every API, AI, and MCP request behind one gateway. Route traffic, guard your MCP servers, and cap your AI costs. [Try it free](https://zuplo.link/iRC6nqO). 📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/bxe6plfkpetnok8vflch.jpg)](https://flueframework.com/blog/flue-2/) - 🤖 Fred K. Schott, of [Astro](https://astro.build/) fame, has [unveiled Flue 2.0](https://flueframework.com/blog/flue-2/), 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](https://astro.build/blog/astro-720/) 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](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack) who injected a credential-stealing worm which spread across [400+ other packages](https://github.com/wiz-sec-public/wiz-research-iocs/blob/main/reports/keyv-packages.csv) so far. Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon. A **[Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/)** publication. 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