#457 — January 9, 2026 |
👋 Happy new year! React Status is now sent every Friday (starting today!) |
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The React Conf 2025 Videos are Now Online — React Conf 2025 took place last October and while you could previously scrub your way through the livestreams, the talks have now been separated and shared in an easier-to-watch format. There are 25 talk videos and 23 interview videos which are new and feature folks like Tanner Linsley, Delba de Oliveira, and Kent C. Dodds. Meta |
📺 There's also an interview with four members of the React core team (Mofei Zhang, Lauren Tan, Jack Pope, and Joe Savona) covering their favorite React 19.2 features, React Compiler, and more. |
Build a Fullstack Next.js App — Join Brian Holt for this comprehensive video course and learn how to ship enterprise-ready Next.js apps! You’ll cover setup, scaling, auth, deployment, logging and much, much more. Frontend Masters sponsor |
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React Has Finally Solved Its Biggest Problem: The Joys of Jack Herrington |
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React Has Changed, Your Hooks Should Too — “If you’re still writing Hooks the same way you did in 2020, that’s fine. Most of us are. But React 18+ gives us a much better toolbox, and getting comfortable with these patterns pays off quickly.” Matt Smith |
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📺 I Moved Off of Next.js – The prolific dev YouTuber explains how he moved his chat app from Next.js to TanStack Start. This isn't a rant about Next.js at all, but more about improving his app's structure and his team's development experience. Theo Browne 📄 How AI Coding Agents Hid an Infinite Recursion Bug in Our React App Andrew Patton 📄 Driving 3D Scenes in Blender with React – A delightfully creative use for React, though the code is a little hard to read in the post. Roman Liutikov 📄 How I Rebuilt My Blog with React Server Components Micah Cantor |
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries |
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React Aria: Adobe's World-Class React Components — They’ve been around for a long while, but React Aria has a fantastic new site and all-new documentation that really sells the entire experience complete with interactive CSS and Tailwind examples to get you started quickly. Adobe |
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Let Users Create API Keys with Clerk's New React Components — Drop-in Clerk sponsor |
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Schedule-X 3.6: A Material Design Calendar and Date Picker — Available in the form of React/Preact, Vue, Svelte, Angular, or plain JS components. Open source but with a premium version with extra features. GitHub repo. Tom Österlund |
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Base UI 1.0: Unstyled UI Components for React — Intended as a successor to Radix (and from the same creators as Radix, Floating UI and Material UI), this is a new, comprehensive UI component library worth checking out if you like things clean and simple. Here’s a guide to all of the components, complete with examples and code samples. Base UI Team |
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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem |
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Some other interesting stories in the broader landscape: |
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