Introducing: React Best Practices — The Vercel team has boiled down “10+ years of React and Next.js optimization knowledge” into a suite of Markdown files intended for use by coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode, though you can just as easily read them yourself. The goal is to allow such agents to write better React code without needless handholding.

Ding and Qu (Vercel)

Plug & Play Image Editor For Your Web App — Save yourself the headache of building an image editor. Import <PinturaEditor>, give it an image source, and instantly get features like cropping, rotating, resizing, and annotation. Need help? Support has you covered. Try Pintura for free today.

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How to 'Steal' Any React Component — This is more ‘reconstructing a component based upon a lot of clues’, but is nonetheless an interesting look at how to reproduce a component from a production React app without the original source code, using React’s internal data structures (via Fiber) and LLMs to reconstruct things.

David Fant

⚠️ Node.js Fixes AsyncLocalStorage Crash Bug That Could Take Down Production Servers — In a collection of January 13 security releases, Node.js mitigated a bug where processes could spontaneously terminate in an uncatchable fashion, something that can impact apps built with, among others, Next.js, React Server Components, or using APM tools.

Sarah Gooding (Socket)

useOptimistic Won't Save You — React 19’s useOptimistic hook is supposed to make optimistic UI updates simple, but in this detailed walkthrough, Colum shows that many problems still lurk. His takeaway: these APIs are designed for framework authors, and the rest of us should probably let our frameworks handle the complexity.

Colum Kelly

Building Type-Safe Compound Components — “I think compound components are a really good design-pattern when building component libraries. They give consumers flexibility in how components are composed, without forcing every variation into a single, prop-heavy API.”

Dominik Dorfmeister

Deploy React on Any Cloud — Cloud 66 for static sites creates a Netlify experience on your own cloud and save up to 60%.

Cloud 66 sponsor

GTKX: Build Native Linux Desktop Apps with React and GTK4 — A fresh way to build Linux desktop apps. Components render as native GTK4 widgets through a Rust FFI bridge with no webviews and no Electron needed.

Eugenio Depalo

📱 Voltra: iOS Live Activities and Widgets in React Native — A way to build native iOS Live Activities, Dynamic Island layouts, and widgets as React components without writing Swift. GitHub repo.

Callstack

X-Ray React: React Layout Debugger — With just one keyboard shortcut, reveal an overlay of the components that rendered your UI, and click any component to open its source file in your editor.

Sviatoslav Medvid

🔊 gemini-live-react: Bidirectional Voice Streaming with Google Gemini Live API — A hook for building real-time voice experiences with Gemini Live.

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