#488 — August 28, 2026 |
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How Lovable Migrated from Next.js to TanStack Start — Lovable moved nearly 400 routes and more than 850K lines of code off a Next.js app running on Vercel onto TanStack Start on its own platform. The heart of the story is how they ran both frameworks in parallel behind a proxy, with a shared folder of code between them. Alexander Lebedev (Lovable) |
Real-Time UI, Real-Time Data. No Pipeline — Your components update instantly, but the data behind them crawls through a pipeline. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so dashboards read live data at scale, no sync lag. Hypertables, compression, continuous aggregates. Get $1000 credit to start. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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What We Learnt Building a Data Grid in React, Vue, and Svelte — SVAR ships the same data grid for React, Vue and Svelte, so they know how frameworks differ. But do those differences affect performance? Barely. No winner is declared, as "the expensive parts of a fast data grid turned out to be almost entirely framework-independent." Maksim Kozhukh (SVAR) |
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IN BRIEF:
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Reliable Query Prefetching with TanStack Router — Prefetch in a loader and you're writing the query twice, and those copies can drift over time. Dominik's fix puts Dominik Dorfmeister |
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Building App-like Experiences with Next.js 16.3 — A practical look at Instant Navigations, Cache Components and Partial Prefetching, demoed in four cloneable open-source apps. Aurora Scharff |
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📄 Building a 3D AI Avatar in React Native – How to render a cutesy 3D 'AI assistant' with React Native Filament. Dave Mkpa-Eke (Margelo) 📄 Making React Testing Library Tests 43% Faster Scott Cooper 📄 Coordinating Optimistic Updates in Next.js Aurora Scharff |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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Oxlint Gets React Compiler Support — Oxlint now includes 22 rules that run React Compiler's own validation passes to catch Rules of React violations. Oxc also ships a package that applies the automatic memoization itself, which it claims can be over 10 times faster than the Babel plugin. Boshen (Oxc) |
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Waku 1.0 RC: The Minimal React Framework Freezes Its API — The minimal React framework built around Server Components is at release candidate, so the public APIs are now fixed and this is the last chance to give feedback that affects the final v1 release. Sophia Andren |
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Rifm 1.0: React Input Format and Mask — A small, dependency-free hook & component for building formatted & masked inputs without losing cursor position. Bogdan Chadkin |
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TanStack Query Adds Simpler TanStack |
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💬 The Next.js team answered your questions |
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The Next.js team spent a morning on Reddit's
(Apologies if any of the links above demand a Reddit login. Apparently they are starting to do that more often now.) It'd be neat if the core React team did one of these sometime – the React Native team did one a decade ago that was very popular. |

