Solve Enterprise Auth, Identity, and Security For Your App — Enterprise customers demand SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and audit logs that meet strict compliance standards. WorkOS offers developers a platform for shipping these features fast with a suite of easy-to-integrate APIs and a portal for streamlined customer onboarding.

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1. React Libraries for 2025 — Each year, Robin Wieruch updates his post covering his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries. He covers a lot of angles from project creation and package management through to state management, animation, form creation, auth, and i18n. He has a good nose for this sort of thing, and we look forward to a 2026 update!

Robin Wieruch

2. React, Visualized: A Visual Exploration of React Concepts — The creators of a popular React course offer this popular visual explainer of numerous core React concepts to cover React 19 and features like actions, transitions, and Server Components too.

Tyler McGinnis et al.

3. How to Start a React Project in 2025 — It's Robin again! There are many ways to start a React project, but Robin examines the pros and cons of a few popular approaches now that Create React App is no longer king. We expect to see TanStack Start feature more strongly in a 2026 update.

Robin Wieruch

4. Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more.

Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh

5. Can We Use Local Storage Instead of Context/Redux/Zustand? — Sometimes the browser's localStorage API can be enough on its own. Nadia figures out when it makes sense and when it doesn’t.

Nadia Makarevich (Developer Way)

6. React Scan: Detect Performance Issues in Your App — A pure JavaScript tool you can drop into your app to automatically ‘scan’ for problematic renders without doing lots of integration work. There’s a simple demo on the homepage or you can see Aiden’s video of Twitter/X being scanned. GitHub repo.

Aiden Bai

7. Impossible Components — Dan Abramov had a series of interesting ‘big picture’ blog posts early in 2025 and this was the most popular. He looks at the idea of so-called ‘impossible’ components that mix server-only and client-only features, and how React Server Components can help bridge that divide.

Dan Abramov

8. TanStack DB: The Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query — differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and seamless optimistic writes. This intro post did a good job at selling the idea and the project remains under active development (though is still in beta).

Kyle Mathews and Sam Willis

9. React State Management in 2025: What You Actually Need — An opinionated piece discussing the role of state, its different forms, and why you might prefer to choose any of the many solutions over another (though Nadia is ultimately a fan of Zustand).

Nadia Makarevich

10. Next.js vs TanStack — An incisive essay from a developer who had enough of the Next.js approach and found solace in the approach offered by the increasingly capable TanStack collection of tools (as well as Vite). I suspect more React developers will be thinking about this choice over the next year.

Kyle Gill

How CERN Delivers Fast Visualizations on Massive Time-Series — For responsive charts across millions of data points, CERN turned to TimescaleDB. With continuous aggregates and high-speed compression, operators get instant, smooth visualizations—no matter the data volume.

Tiger Data sponsor