#421 — March 19, 2025 |
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React Trends in 2025 — Each year Robin does a post giving his opinion on what trends he sees arising over the next year. Last year, he put his money on Astro, RSCs, Vercel, and Biome – this year he points at React Server Components, Robin Wieruch |
Next.js vs TanStack — An incisive essay from a developer who’s had enough of the Next.js approach and has found solace in the approach offered by the increasingly capable TanStack collection of tools (as well as Vite). Kyle Gill |
![]() KendoReact Free is Here, npm-Install Available! — 50+ robust KendoReact components, including React Data Grid, DatePicker and DropDownList. No sign-ups, trials, or licenses required - you can use KendoReact Free in production, to experiment, or to quickly see what it's all about! Progress KendoReact sponsor |
IN BRIEF:
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The Great ESLint v9 Migration Adventure: A Developer's Survival Guide — “Let’s just say… I’ve seen things. I hit all the bumps, took all the wrong turns, and somehow made it to the other side—so you don’t have to.” Yacine Kharoubi |
SSR Deep Dive for React Developers — Explore step-by-step how Server-Side Rendering (SSR), pre-rendering, hydration, and Static Site Generation (SSG) work in React, their costs, performance impact, benefits, and trade-offs. Nadia Makarevich |
📄 Building Static Websites with Vite and React – An introduction to the author’s vite-ssg-react approach. Carlos Neves 📄 Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Node.js, Podman AI Lab and React Michael Dawson (Red Hat) |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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A shadcn/ui + Tailwind v4 Dashboard Example with Code — The shadcn/ui team has open-sourced an app they built to test Tailwind v4 and React 19 support. It’s a dashboard supporting custom themes, colors and scaling, along with a neat, flexible data table. The code is here. shadcn/ui |
Meet the AI Coding Assistant Built for React — Augment gets your components, hooks, and state management. Ask anything about your frontend. Augment Code sponsor |
Typist 8.0: Tiptap-Based Rich Text Editor Component — Simple and opinionated. You can try several examples linked in the sidebar. Well suited for basic rich text situations like writing comments or messages and has a single-line mode. GitHub repo. Doist |
Bright: A React Server Component for Syntax Highlighting — Customizable and includes all of VS Code’s syntax highlighting themes, some of which are demonstrated on the page. Code Hike |
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