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A candid interview with Tanner Linsley

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#474 — May 15, 2026

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From Latency to Instant: Improving GitHub Issues Navigation Performance — GitHub rebuilt issue navigation around a local-first, stale-while-revalidate model: render from an IndexedDB cache, revalidate in the background. ~70% of React navigations are now instant & P10 down from 600ms to 70ms. A deep account of the caching & prefetch design on GitHub's React/Rails stack.

Alexander Lelidis (GitHub)

Microfrontends, Monoliths, & Monorepos — Discover how to architect large, successful frontend systems in this detailed video course, hosted by Steve Kinney. Learn best practices for maintaining complex codebases while shipping high-quality software.

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▶ Why TanStack Start Exists: Tanner Linsley on Competing with Next.js — A candid interview with Tanner Linsley covering a wide variety of topics like TanStack’s business model, Start vs Next.js, and TanStack’s take on being framework agnostic while still focusing on React.

Nuno Maduro

🔒 Hardening TanStack After the npm Compromise — This week, an attacker published malicious versions of 42 TanStack packages using a novel approach (it affected 170+ other packages too). Here’s what the TanStack team is doing to prevent such issues going forward.

The TanStack Team

A Technical Deep Dive Into the New Raycast — Raycast is a feature-rich macOS launcher app (imagine Spotlight but 10x) which has long had a React-based extension ecosystem, but now its new v2.0 app has a React frontend too.

Nikolaev and Mann (Raycast)

Your Agent Burned Through the Free Tier by Lunch — ghost gives your agent unlimited Postgres. Fork per task, delete after. No project limits. 1TB free. Try for free.

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📄 Security in React Applications – High-level tips and techniques for securing React apps. Aurora Scharff

📄 RSC Server Functions Are Not An API Boundary Long Ho

📄 The Hidden Cost of <Activity> Peter Piekarczyk

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

MDXEditor 4.0: A Rich Markdown Editor Component — A Lexical-powered Markdown editor for React apps with a wide array of features like code editing, link/image insertion, and table support. The live demo shows off what it can do with all the features enabled.

Petyo Ivanov

Fate 1.0: A Modern Data Framework for React — A new data framework from former Jest lead and ex-Meta engineer Christoph Nakazawa. Brings normalized caching, view co-location, and single-root-request composition on top of tRPC or native HTTP, with Prisma and now Drizzle support on the server. 1.0 adds live views over SSE, garbage collection, and a Vite plugin.

Christoph Nakazawa

🤖 React Review: Audit Your Codebase for Bad React Code — From the creator of React Doctor comes a new GitHub App (powered by React Doctor) that fetches both a pull request branch and base branch and reviews and reports on issues introduced in the PR.

Aiden Bai et al.

Orval: Generate Type-Safe Clients from OpenAPI/Swagger Specs — Given a valid OpenAPI v3 or Swagger v2 spec, generate models, requests, hooks, and mocks for React, Vue, Svelte, and Solid apps and more.

Victor Bury

Mantine 9.2 – The popular component suite adds TreeSelect (above) for selecting hierarchical tree data, the dropdown-free InlineDateTimePicker, RollingNumber to animate value changes, a new use-drag hook, and more.
⭐ Waku 1.0 Beta – The minimal React Server Components framework built atop Vite and Hono.
whisper.rn 0.6 – React Native bindings to whisper.cpp for fast, on-device speech transcription.
Ant Design 6.4.0 – Enterprise-class UI design language & component library.
react-native-view-shot 5.1 – Capture a React Native view to an image.
react-qr-scanner 2.6 – Scan QR codes in React apps.
styled-components v7 Alpha

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Trigger.dev handles queues, retries, and long-running tasks so you can build production-ready agents and TypeScript workflows reliably at scale.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

🤖 Redux maintainer Mark Erikson goes deep with his personal thoughts and experiences on the use of AI in software development.
Daishi Kato shares a brief update on Jotai (v2.20.0 was released last week) and says he's ready to start thinking about Jotai v3.
🤖 TanStack AI, the cross-provider AI SDK, can now stream typed structured output with a Zod schema.
zero-native is Vercel's entry into the ecosystem of frameworks for building native JS desktop apps. It sits atop a Zig core and lets you pick between the system WebView or Chromium. There are examples covering how to build vanilla, React, Svelte, and Vue apps on top of it.
Luciano Mammino looks at what's new in Node 26.0.

TanStack's experimental React clone

Fri, 8 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#473 — May 8, 2026

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Projecting React — Tanner Linsley (he of TanStack) spent a day prompting an AI agent to regenerate React’s public API as a ~9KB runtime scoped to TanStack Start, and quietly shipped it on his blog and tanstack.com, where it runs at 2–3× the speed of stock React. But the most interesting part is why he isn’t properly releasing it (though it is on npm if you're curious).

Tanner Linsley

💡 It's also noteworthy that Tanner didn't find Preact to be a good, lighter 'drop-in' replacement for React due to its slow drift away over the years.

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Next.js May 2026 Security Releases — More security woes, but ones quickly addressed by upgrading to Next.js 15.5.18 and 16.2.6. All RSC users should also upgrade React (see box below). Users who applied Cloudflare’s WAF rules in response to prior RSC CVEs remain protected by them.

Jimmy Lai (Vercel)

💡 React 19.2.6, 19.1.7, and 19.0.6 have also been released to address this React Server Components-related DoS vulnerability.

IN BRIEF:

📱 Expo SDK 56 Beta is now available. Speed and stability are the highlights, with much faster iOS builds, faster Android app startup times, and the Jetpack Compose (Android) and SwiftUI (iOS) APIs in Expo UI are stable.
🤖 Vercel has open sourced deepsec, a security harness for LLMs to perform security vulnerability scans on large repos.
React Router v7.15.0 has been released with a variety of API tweaks to prepare for a React Router v8 release 'in the next month or two.'

Introducing TanStack Form — A clean introduction to TanStack Form, walking through the headless-architecture mental model: state and validation in TanStack's hands, rendering entirely in yours.

Adam Rackis

From React to Web Components: A Migration That Saved 100KB — “How I migrated a site from React to native Web Components, why that worked better than I expected, and how the patterns I used along the way grew into a small library called nanotags.”

Pavel Grinchenko (Evil Martians)

Faster Dashboards Start with Faster Queries — TimescaleDB extends Postgres so dashboards query live data at scale. No pipeline, no stale state. $1000 credit to start.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

🏖️ What I Saw at React Miami 2026 – React Router, Remix, and the use of AI all popped up as common topics. Brooks Lybrand

📄 Who Owns the Tree? RSC as a Protocol, Not an Architecture Tanner Linsley

📄 Untangling Dialogs in React Router David Adams

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

MapLibre React Native: Render Interactive Vector Tile Maps — A library for creating maps with MapLibre Native for Android and iOS. It started as a fork of rnmapbox, but now focuses on MapLibre as the MapLibre and Mapbox SDKs continue to diverge.

MapLibre Project

shadcn CLI 4.7: Package Imports and Registry Target Aliases — Now supports package.json#imports for installing components, rewriting imports, and resolving third-party registries. Registry items also gain files[].target aliases for when you want a registry to drop components into specific folders.

shadcn / Vercel

🗓️ React DayPicker 10.0: A Component to Create Date Picker Controls — There are countless date selection components, but few match DayPicker’s maturity, accessibility, and ability to be sculpted into whatever you need. GitHub repo.

Giampaolo Bellavite

html-react-parser 6.1 – HTML to React parser that converts HTML strings into React elements. v6.1 adds Content Security Policy (CSP) support.
Jotai 2.20.0 – The primitive, flexible state management solution for React "improves performance in high-throughput scenarios".
Classicy 0.9 – React component collection with a classic Mac OS-inspired retro style.

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

It's been a big week for Node.js with Node.js 26.0 (Current) landing with the Temporal API enabled by default and a variety of V8 14.6 enhancements, but also Node 26.1 (Current) with an experimental core FFI mechanism.
Rolldown, the high-performance bundler, reached a stable v1.0 release. It focuses on speed and Rollup plugin compatibility.
Vitest is tightly coupled to Vite, but a maintainer has proposed making it "framework-agnostic" to support other build tools and runtimes.
As part of the Astro 6.2 release, the popular web framework for content sites teased Astro v7 Alpha, its next Vite 8-based, Rust compiler-driven version. Astro 6.3 also landed shortly after with a new, experimental 'advanced routing' feature for better integration with alternative runtimes and frameworks like Hono.

How React streams UI out of order

Fri, 1 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#472 — May 1, 2026

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Agentic Inbox: A React and Cloudflare-Powered Web Email Client — An open source React 19 and React Router 7-based Gmail-style email app, leaning on Durable Objects, R2, and other APIs. An interesting example of tying together numerous Cloudflare APIs into a single React app.

Cloudflare

Stop Guessing Where Your Next.js App Broke [Workshop] — Pinpoint where your Next.js production issues originated. Learn to write high-context logs, query them for silent failures, and trace across client and Node runtimes using Sentry. Hands-on and free. Register today.

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Inside React's Out-of-Order Streaming — Suspense (and Server Components) can seem magical until you see what comes down the wire. This tour shows how React streams UI out of order with boundary markers, template placeholders, staging nodes, and tiny scripts that move content into place.

Sankalpa Acharya

IN BRIEF:

Remix 3 Beta Preview is out. Once a React framework, Remix is now taking 'a new path', moving away from React toward a web-first full-stack runtime and component model.
TanStack Table v9 has been in alpha for two years, but the beta is close says TanStack's Kevin Thomas Van Cott who shared an update on X.
Devicons offers over 1000 dev-oriented icons (companies, technologies, file types, etc.) to copy and paste into React projects.
The React Native community is discussing deprecating Cocoapods and replacing it with Swift Package Manager on iOS.

The Real Cost of React Native Animations: Benchmarking Every Approach — A hard-data writeup measuring the per-frame cost of using Reanimated, RN Animated, and the new Ease library on real devices.

Janic Duplessis

📄 Accessibility in React: Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them Aurora Scharff

🤖 When to Use Apple Foundation Models on Mobile – @react-native-ai/apple opens up Apple Intelligence to React Native apps. Lech Kalinowski (Callstack)

📺 Partial Page Caching Using React Server Components Jack Herrington

📄 Making Bluetooth Low Energy Work with JavaScript Ifedayo Agboola

📄 How to Make Pure JSI Code Faster in React Native Alex Shumihin

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

portless: Replace Port Numbers with Stable, Named Local URLs — If you’d rather see something like https://myapp.localhost than http://localhost:3000 this is for you. It’s built on Node, and now includes new features for Tailscale users.

Vercel Labs

useHotkeys 5.3: A Hook for Keyboard Shortcuts in Components — Apply keyboard shortcuts to components in a declarative way, e.g. useHotkeys('ctrl+k', callback_here). GitHub repo.

Johannes Klauss

You Know Next.js Routing. Now Use It to Ship Native Apps — Expo Router: file-based routes, API routes, deep links, and SSR. Same patterns, native performance.

Expo sponsor

Nano Stores 1.3: A Tiny (286 Bytes) State Manager — Atomic and derived stores for every major framework (including React) and vanilla JS. Worth a look if a tiny footprint and framework-agnostic design appeal to you.

Andrey Sitnik (Evil Martians)

SSGOI 5.0: Native App-Like Page Transitions for the Web — Boasts broader browser support than native page transitions and it has router-agnostic React bindings. The site has several striking demos. GitHub repo.

MeurSyphus

📱 JailMonkey 3.0 – React Native library to identify if a phone is rooted or spoofing its location.
MUI OTP Input 7.0 – One-time password input component for MUI.

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⚛️ The new Clerk CLI detects your framework, scaffolds auth with clerk init, and manages config in code. Open source: clerk.com/cli

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

Neciu Dan's What’s Actually New in JavaScript (And What’s Coming Next) lets you catch up with new ES2025/ES2026 language additions, many of which are widely supported. Things like Promise.try, new Set methods, Array.fromAsync, and using.
Datatype is a variable OpenType font for rendering inline 📊, 📈, or pie charts in your app from plain text (e.g. {l:10,50,30,80,20}). It's available on Google Fonts.
Perry is an interesting cross-platform TypeScript compiler that compiles directly to native executables that could be an alternative to React Native in certain situations.
Node v26.0 (Current) is expected to land next week with Temporal API support enabled by default. Here's a preview of the release notes.
Astro 6.2 has been released.

A reimagining of JSX from a React core alum

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#471 — April 24, 2026

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A Guide to React Compiler Rendering — Redux maintainer Mark Erikson shares his slide deck from React Miami that starts with the fundamentals of React’s rendering process and moves on to optimization techniques, what React Compiler is, and demystifies what it does. It's a slide deck, but an educational one.

Mark Erikson

🏖️ React Miami is taking place now, but we'll link to the video once it's up.

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TSRX: A TypeScript Language Extension for Declarative UIs — “You can think of TSRX as a spiritual successor to JSX,” says former React team member Dominic. The language compiles to React, Preact, Solid and Ripple, and includes control flow, scoped styles, and locals. There’s a playground if you want to see how it compiles to React.

Dominic Gannaway

IN BRIEF:

Seth Webster, former Head of React at Meta, has joined Expo as Chief Developer Evangelist. Expo, meanwhile, has raised a $45m Series B.
Rspack 2.0 (the fast, Rust-based bundler) has been released with experimental RSC support, 10% faster than 1.7, and more. Rsbuild 2.0 was released too.
TypeScript 7.0 Beta has been released. It's the Go-powered 'native' version of TypeScript, offering 10x faster compile times.

😱 The Vercel Breach That Started with a Roblox Cheat — By way of an employee at a tool provider used by a Vercel employee, hackers got access to a subset of Vercel customers' environment variables. If you're a Vercel user and haven't looked into sensitive environment variables yet, now's the time.

Vercel

Building Non-Blocking UIs with useTransition and useActionState — How to build responsive UIs using useTransition and useActionState to manage async operation lifecycles cleanly.

Deepanshu Rana (Rubrik)

That Slow Dashboard? It's Not a React Problem — Continuous aggregates keep dashboards fresh without rebuilding rollups. Live data straight from Postgres. Try for free.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

📺 Next.js Vendor Lock-in No More – An interview with Jimmy Lai and Tim Neutkens of the Next.js project on how Adapters will simplify Next.js app deployment. Syntax FM Podcast

📄 Building the Maxima Therapy Website: React, GSAP, and Dabbling with AI – A design-oriented case study. The end result is intense but cute. Nicolas Garnier

📄 3 Ways to Store Variables in React & Why You Shouldn't Sleep on useRef Rachel Kaufman

📄 How Hipcamp Upgraded Expo SDK Versions with Claude Code Armaiz Adenwala (Hipcamp)

📺 Five Ways to SSR/RSC on TanStack Start – And in just ten minutes. Jack Herrington

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

React Arborist 3.5: A Tree View Component for React — If you want something like a sidebar you might see in VS Code, Finder, or Gmail, this provides everything in one component, including folders, drag and drop sorting, filtering, keyboard navigation, and more. Demos.

James Kerr

✉️ React Email 6.0: Now an Open-Source Email Editor Too — Starting life as a collection of unstyled components for creating good-looking emails using React and Tailwind, React Email now offers an extensible visual editor to add email creation to your app. There are also some new email templates ready to go.

Woznica, Miranda, Melo and Fernandes

React Tooltip 6.0: An Easy-to-Use Tooltip Component — There’s a getting started tutorial and an upgrade guide for existing users. GitHub repo.

ReactTooltip Team

Pastel 4.0: A Framework for Building Ink Apps — Ink brings the power of JSX and React components to building command line apps. Pastel provides more structure on top of that in a Next.js-esque fashion.

Vadim Demedes

📈 React Native Graph 1.2 – A modern 'reboot' of a high-performance line graph library for React Native apps.
📊 React Spectrum Charts 1.42 – Declarative React charting library. (Demos.)
xstate-tree 5.4 – UI framework composing XState machines into an actor-based tree with loosely coupled React views.
📱 Voltra 1.4 – Build native iOS Live Activities, Dynamic Island layouts, and Android home-screen widgets in React Native.
React Cosmos 7.3 – Sandbox for developing and testing UI components.
TinyBase 8.2 – Reactive data store designed for local-first apps.
Mantine 9.1.0 – Popular, extensive React components suite.
React Native Testing Library 14.0 Beta 1

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

If you work with Ruby on Rails, you might find rails_vite interesting. It seamlessly brings the power of Vite into Rails' pipeline.
🤖 Cloudflare has released Is Your Site Agent Ready? It's a quick, Web-based tool that analyzes your site to "see how ready it is for AI agents."
🎥 HyperFrames is a tool for turning HTML and JavaScript compositions into fully rendered videos. Think a smaller version of Remotion but open source and more vanilla JS-flavored.
TypeGPU is a TypeScript toolkit for working with WebGPU, including the ability to write shaders in TypeScript! It also works with React Native via React Native WebGPU.
🔒 OWASP has a handy sheet of npm security best practices to follow.