#438 — July 30, 2025 |
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TanStack DB: The Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query — TanStack DB is an embedded client‑side database that uses differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and seamless optimistic writes. This post does a good job of selling the idea, and the first beta version (v0.1) is available to experiment with now. Kyle Mathews and Sam Willis |
“TanStack DB is an extremely gratifying realization of the years-long vision I had for React Query from day 1.” ___ |
![]() Open-Source SDK for Finding Dead Code — Reaper by Emerge Tools (now Sentry) is an open-source SDK for iOS & Android that finds dead code in production using runtime analysis - helping teams clean up unused classes/types across app versions. Sentry sponsor |
The Useless Dominik Dorfmeister |
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How Parcel Bundles React Server Components — Parcel added React Server Components support a few months ago but here’s a deeper look at how this support actually works, what directives like Devon Govett |
Precompiled React Native for iOS: Faster Builds Coming in 0.81 — Currently at RC3, the next React Native release introduces precompiled iOS builds promising up to 10x faster build times – here’s how it works. Christian Falch and Brent Vatne (Expo) |
Build a Multi-Tenant React App with Lovable — A faster way to implement multi-tenancy using Clerk’s built-in orgs, roles, and user switching. Clerk sponsor |
📄 Remix 3 and the End of React-Centric Architectures Alexander T. Williams (The New Stack) 📄 Instrumenting Next.js with Runtime Secret Injection Rohan Chaturvedi (Phase) 📄 Notes on Rewriting JSX as Astro Carlos Neves |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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Reanimated 4: The Future of React Native Animations — What if you took the best parts of CSS animations and transitions and brought them into the world of React Native for animating anything? It’s a big enough release it even has a ▶️ fancy 5 minute introduction video showing off its capabilities. Krzysztof Magiera |
Better Upload: Simple File Uploads for React — Upload files directly to any S3-compatible service with minimal setup. The quick start guide shows examples for Next.js, TanStack Start, Remix and Hono, but you can adapt it for any backend. Nicholas Affonso |
Rooks.js 8.4: Almost 100 Hooks for All Sorts of Things — An interesting grab bag of custom hooks covering a variety of areas from online status and resize detection to speech synthesis and keyboard input. Lots of examples (see the menu on the left). Various Contributors |
React Three Viverse: Build Three.js / React Three Fiber Apps for VIVERSE — VIVERSE is an open ‘virtual world’ platform being built by HTC. Here’s a tutorial on building a game with it. (GitHub repo.) Poimandres |
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📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript |
A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you've missed them:
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