Cloudflare Dashboard Outage Rooted in a useEffect Mistake — The bug wasn’t caused by anything React-specific, but it’s uncommon to hear of the misuse of a React feature cascading into a service being overwhelmed with unnecessary requests resulting in an outage. A good reminder that these things can happen to anyone.

Lianza and Madruga (Cloudflare)

How to Keep package.json Under Control — Looking at an 863 megabyte node_modules folder in Val Town’s React app, Tom got to thinking about ‘dependency hygiene’ and some ways to keep things under control. Good tips and tool recommendations for managing the bulk.

Tom MacWright

AI Code Reviews Meet CLI Coding Agents — CodeRabbit CLI brings instant code reviews directly to your terminal, integrating with Claude Code, Cursor CLI, and other AI agents. While they generate code, CodeRabbit ensures it's production-ready - catching bugs, security issues, and hallucinations before they hit your codebase.

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React Server Components Support Across Frameworks — A comparison of support for aspects of the main RSC related functionality in Next.js, Vite, Waku, Forket, Parcel, React Router, and RedwoodSDK, along with the code used to test each one (which you might find useful as a reference in itself).

Krasimir Tsonev

'React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation' — An opinionated React thought-piece that’s provoked much discussion this week by poking at the downsides and inertia caused by ‘the React-by-default mindset.’ And we thought people said React was moving too quickly..? 😅

Loren Stewart

Expo SDK 54 Released: A Big One for React Native Developers — The Expo framework continues its rapid ascent in the world of React Native with precompiled React Native iOS builds (for much shorter build times), iOS 26 and Liquid Glass support, and the use of React Native 0.81 and React 19.1. The new Expo File System has also become stable.

Hughes and Vatne (Expo)

Secure Your Agentic Apps with Auth for GenAI — Secure your agentic apps with features like User Authentication for AI agents, Token Vault, and more with Auth0’s Auth for GenAI (exclusively in Developer Preview).

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Conform 1.10: A Type-Safe Form Validation Library — Gives you control over the form submission lifecycle from client to the server and exposes the form state through the useForm() hook. v1.10 improves Valibot integration with the future useForm hook.

Edmund Hung

💱 React Currency Input Field Component v4.0 — A component that aims to capture the nuances of currency input, if a freeform approach doesn’t cut it for you. Try it out with the live demo.

Chun Chan