#​421 — March 19, 2025

Read on the Web

Together with  Progress KendoReact
React Status

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, shadcn/ui, TanStack Start, React Router, and more.

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:

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

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