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Plus Canary's browser() API and parallel transitions, two Next.js RCEs, Ionic 9, and a noteworthy TanStack Query update.

#​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)

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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)

IN BRIEF:

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 queryOptions in route context so the loader and component use the same definition, and sub-routes get them too.

Dominik Dorfmeister

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

📄 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

Oxlint Gets React Compiler SupportOxlint 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)

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

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

TanStack Query Adds Simpler query and infiniteQuery Methods — Landing in 5.102.0 (billed by Dominik as the "biggest release since v5"): QueryClient's new query/infiniteQuery are intended to replace fetchQuery/fetchInfiniteQuery.

TanStack

  • 📱 Ionic Framework v9 – The mobile-first UI toolkit for React, Angular and Vue returns after a two-year gap with React Router 6 support and more. There's an upgrade guide for v8 users.

  • GTKX 1.5 – Create native GTK-powered Linux desktop apps with React. Now with an adapter to connect React Hook Form to native Adwaita controls.

  • Streamdown 2.6 – Vercel's replacement for react-markdown focused on AI-powered streaming of Markdown content. (Homepage.)

  • react-jsonschema-form 6.8 – Component for declaratively building web forms using JSON Schema. (Playground.)

  • nuqs 2.10 – Type-safe search params state manager. Like useState, but stored in the URL query string.

  • Material UI 9.4 – Comprehensive React component suite.

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💬  The Next.js team answered your questions

The Next.js team spent a morning on Reddit's r/nextjs answering user-submitted questions on Next.js 16.3, the App Router, RSC, caching and upgrades. A few responses are worth a closer look:

(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.

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