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The Next.js team is doing a Reddit AMA

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#487 — August 14, 2026

🗓️ We're taking a break next week, so we're back in your inbox on August 28.
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Your editor, Peter Cooper

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A Tour of TanStack Form v2: Now in Alpha — The headless form library has been rebuilt from the ground up after a year of v1 feedback. The big change is validation: instead of one handler per event, validators become a pipeline where each declares its own triggers and conditions. Type safety and SSR improve too.

Luca Jakob (TanStack)

React Native 0.87 Released — Its public JavaScript API is now the Strict TypeScript API with types generated from RN's source. Metro bumps to the leaner v0.87, and there's (experimental) Swift Package Manager support for iOS.

Peng, Cucci, Dall'Agnol, and Falch

Frontend Architecture: Monoliths to Microfrontends — Maxi Ferreira walks through modular monoliths, monorepos, and microfrontends so you can pick the right structure for your codebase and know the real cost before you commit.

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Migrating a Large Flow Monorepo to TypeScript — Yelp picked Flow in 2017 as it handled React better than TypeScript did. A fair call at the time, but undoing that took years of converting hundreds of packages and 1.4 million lines of code, with both typecheckers running the whole time.

Shawn Walton (Yelp)

IN BRIEF:

👥 The Next.js team (now including Dan Abramov and Pete Hunt) is doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit this coming Tuesday (August 18). You can post your questions on this thread in advance.
Biome 2.5.8 is out with a new useReactCompiler rule that runs React Compiler in lint mode and reports which components and hooks wouldn't compile safely (effectively a 'dry run' before you enable the compiler).
🇫🇷 React Native Connection, the French React Native conference, returns to Paris on September 24.

Making Navigations Instant in v0 — Next.js 16.3 includes an instant() test helper for Playwright that asserts what is painted before the network responds. Vercel looped an agent against it to speed up its AI app builder, v0.

Jude Gao (Next.js Team)

▶ Own the RSC Pipeline: Cache and Compose It Yourself — RSC is a primitive, not an architecture, argues the contributor behind TanStack Start's implementation. It's two React functions and a stream, so you can cache it, and even take it offline. (18 minutes.)

Manuel Schiller

Making Referential Stability a Type — Jovi, of the Preact core team, turns referential stability into a branded type, so a component can demand a stable array or callback and tsc rejects the inline literal. Experimental.

Jovi De Croock

📄 Scanning Barcodes in React Native Apps – A pleasantly thorough roundup of the options from the creator of VisionCamera. Marc Rousavy

📺 React Native Tools That Actually Save Me Time Simon Grimm

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

GTKX 1.0: The React Framework for Linux — A way to build native Linux desktop apps with React. Write JSX, get real GTK4 and Adwaita widgets with no webview, in an ordinary Node process with npm packages and even Fast Refresh support.

Eugenio Depalo

💡 1.0 is the big release, but GTKX 1.1 landed just after with a gtkx deploy command that produces a distributable Flatpak, .deb/.rpm and AppImage in one go.

kbar 1.0: A Cmd+K Interface for React Apps — After five years of betas, this simple way to add in-page commands and search now fully supports React 18 and 19. You can try it out right on the page too.

Tim Chang

Liquid Gooey: Liquid/Gooey Effects for React — More subtle and pleasing than I imagined at first. Nice demos on the homepage.

Jakub Antalik

React Hook Form 7.85.0 – Adds support for React 19.2's <Activity>.
Motion 13.1 – The animation library's Reorder component gains multidimensional reordering, axis detection, and RTL support.
Next.js 16.3.1 – Cleans up some elements of the 16.3 release like repeated prefetch loops, cache entries being discarded too eagerly after a tag revalidation, and headers() returning a stale view of the request.
Sonner 2.0.8 – The first release in over a year for the popular toast component (demo).

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And that's a wrap! We'll see you again on Friday, August 28! 👋

P.S. A huge thanks to everyone who's sent in submissions lately. There have been so many that I've fallen well behind, but every email gets read and I'll catch up on my return :-)

TanStack Table v9 and Next.js 16.3

Fri, 7 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#486 — August 7, 2026

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TanStack Table v9: A Faster, More Modular Foundation — Arriving four years after v8, the popular headless table library gets a tree-shakable architecture where you register only what you need (so a pagination-only table, say, ships no filtering/grouping code). State moves to TanStack Store for fine-grained reactivity, and there are big memory wins for large datasets.

Kevin Van Cott

Code Review That Learns How Your Team Ships — Reply to CodeRabbit in plain English and it remembers, turning your standards into learnings applied to every future PR. Path-based rules, AST instructions and 40+ linters, minus the false-positive noise. Same bar for every PR.

CodeRabbit sponsor

Next.js 16.3 Released — The newly expanded Next.js team (now including Dan Abramov and 𝕏 Pete Hunt!) has dropped the latest version of the popular React framework, complete with faster builds, optional TypeScript 7 type checking, faster SSR, Instant Navigations, AI improvements, and more.

The Next.js Team

💡 Vercel has put together a guide to its support for Next.js 16.3 and the efficiency gains seen from its new features.

IN BRIEF:

Upgraded to React Router v8 yet? React Router v9 is now under discussion and you're invited to comment with questions or changes you'd like to see.
🇪🇸 React Alicante takes place this September 24-26 in Spain. Mark Erikson, Aurora Scharff, Dominik Dorfmeister, and Matteo Collina are on the speaker list.
shadcn has added a new Questionnaire component (in Base UI, React Aria, and Radix UI flavors) for rendering multi-step questionnaires.
🇩🇪 reactCon is a React Native conference taking place in Berlin, October 7-9.

📄 Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol at Building Expo Apps – 2 billion tokens later, Rami calls Fable the winner. Rami Maalouf

📄 TSRX in TanStack Start: What We Like, and Three Bugs We Filed Jamie Davenport

📄 You Should Not Use Relay for Everything Andrei Calazans

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

Plate: Build Your Own Rich Text Editor — A framework (with very thorough docs) for building React-based text editors that lets you select the specific features and functionality you need. GitHub repo.

Ziad Beyens

🤖 use-webmcp-tool: A Hook for Using WebMCP — WebMCP is a proposed web standard for exposing page-based JavaScript functions for AI agents to use. This hook wraps its usual imperative API for React's declarative approach.

Sarah Drasner (Google Chrome Labs)

rshono: A Minimal Framework for React Server Components — Uses Hono for the server, Rspack for building, and React Server Components for rendering. This brand-new project has similarities to Waku but is simpler and doesn't require Vite.

Lasse Tange

Morphicons: Morphing Library for Stroke-Based Icons — To morph an icon, all you do is change a prop. Works with Lucide, Tabler, Heroicons, Iconoir and the shadcn icon registry. The live demo on the homepage demonstrates the effect.

Guillermo López

SWR 2.5 – A minimal hook-based data fetching mechanism with caching, revalidation and deduplication. v2.5 adds RSC cache preloading and an unload() API to clear the cache and discard in-flight operations.
React Aria 1.20 – Adobe's popular component suite adds new PreviewTrigger and TokenField components.
react-dropzone 20.0 – React hook providing a standards-compliant drag-and-drop zone for files. Now requires Node 22+. (Examples)
Base UI 1.7 – The unstyled UI component library that's shadcn/ui's new default.
Astryx 0.3 – Meta's React and StyleX-based design system. (Homepage)
Material UI 9.3 – Popular, comprehensive suite of React components.
react-hcaptcha 2.1 – Component for the reCAPTCHA alternative.
React Three Fiber 9.7 – React renderer for Three.js.

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

🤖 Fred K. Schott, of Astro fame, has unveiled Flue 2.0, the latest version of his TypeScript-based open agent framework. The novel addition is using React-style hooks (called Agent Hooks – see above) to build dynamic agents that manage their own state.
Talking of Astro, Astro 7.2 has been released with experimental incremental static build support (skipping the regeneration of prerendered pages which haven't changed since the last build).
⚠️ Earlier this week, the keyv package was compromised by attackers who injected a credential-stealing worm which spread across 400+ other packages so far.

TanStack's new look, and life without RSC

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#485 — July 31, 2026

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Octane: React's Programming Model, But Compiled — From the creator of Inferno comes a successor: a compiled React-like framework (the differences from React are here) that generates reactivity ahead of time with no VDOM. Supports TSX/JSX and TSRX, with integrations for TanStack Query and Router, plus other common React libraries.

Dominic Gannaway

💡 Expect to see a lot of experimentation around Octane in coming weeks. For example, Steve Faulkner has created Nextane, an experimental riff on Cloudflare's Vinext 'Next.js on Vite', to get the Next.js Pages Router but on Octane.

Join Sentry Live: How Etsy Stays Crash-Free — Sentry and Etsy break down how Etsy preps for peak traffic, debugs in real time, and ties crashes to revenue impact. Real stories and practical takeaways for teams shipping at scale.

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Why TanStack Stopped Using RSC on Its Site — Tanner, armed with lots of numbers, explains why tanstack.com dropped React Server Components after shrinking its markdown and highlighting stack to 27KB. Plain SSR now serves smaller pages with lower blocking time, and the code is easier to follow.

Tanner Linsley

💡 TanStack has also rolled out a full rebrand and new landing page.

▶ React Debugging with Performance Tracks — A 15 minute tutorial covering React Performance tracks, React-specific entries that appear in your browser's DevTools.

Shruti Kapoor

Experimenting with RSCs for Performance and UX in Next.js — Aurora digs into three interesting patterns that arose while building a social app on Next.js 16.3 (currently in preview, but expected imminently).

Aurora Scharff

📄 Your SPA is Leaking Memory: 'Soak Test' It – Loop a Playwright flow in a single browser context and use DOM node and listener counts to catch memory leaks before users do. Den Odell

📄 The State of Zero-Runtime CSS-in-JS, Mid-2026 – From the maintainer of Linaria and creator of dx-styles. Anton Evzhakov

📄 Building a Real-Time Face Recognition App in React Native with VisionCamera Patrick Kabwe (Margelo)

📄 A Modern Storybook Tutorial: Stories, Interaction Tests, and CI Flavio Copes

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

Introducing TanStack Markdown and Highlight — As part of removing RSCs from its site (covered above), TanStack built two new libraries: a 4.9KB Markdown parser with a serializable AST, and an 8KB highlighter for 25 languages, replacing a ~358KB Shiki-based approach. They're in alpha, TanStack's using them in prod…

Tanner Linsley

💡 It's been a productive week for TanStack – they've also released an alpha of TanStack Charts, their take on creating a grammar for charts that AI agents can write. Microsoft is also experimenting in this area with Flint.

Sign in with Google for React Native — @thoughtbot/react-native-social-auth is a modern Google Sign-In library for React Native on both iOS and Android with a first-party Expo config plugin.

Oluwatomi Oluwafemi Alu (Thoughtbot)

OverflowGuard: A Component That Knows When Content Won't Fit — A 2KB component that detects when toolbar or nav content stops fitting its container, so you can collapse to icons or a hamburger without magic breakpoints.

Artur Marczyk

MobX 7.0 – The popular state manager slims down, removes deprecations, updates its React bindings, and now always uses Proxy-backed observable objects and arrays.
Mantine 9.5 – The popular full-featured React component suite. Date pickers gain a native month/year select, and there's a new SunburstChart component.
React Ace 15.0 – Component that wraps the Ace code editor. Now ships a native ESM build alongside CommonJS, fixing import interop under Vite 8.
📸 VisionCamera 5.2 – Powerful camera library for React Native. Adds zoom, exposure and torch control to <SkiaCamera>.
react-router-hono-server 3.0 – Spin up a Hono-based server for your React Router app in seconds. Now targets React Router v8.
Virtua 0.50 – A zero-config ~3KB virtual list and grid component for React, Vue, Solid and Svelte – now joined by Angular. (Demo)
react-x11 1.2 – A React renderer whose host environment is an X11 server.

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You only need 3 tools to build mobile apps with AI: Skills, MCP and the right AI workflow. Full guide/video in the blog.

Your components re-render in milliseconds. The analytics query behind them doesn't. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so it can.

📊 A Smaller Chart Bonus

Microcharts: Word-Sized Charts for React — I'm a big fan of Edward Tufte's numerous data visualization books and a concept he popularized was sparklines, small dense charts that fit inline with text. Microcharts brings the idea to React with 106 chart types. GitHub repo.

Ganapati V S

The absolute state of 'state management'

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

#484 — July 24, 2026

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The Absolute State of Management — Alex Russell argues Redux, MobX, Zustand, and React itself don't 'manage state', they just propagate it whereas 'real' state management means handling time and conflicts, the way CRDTs and sync engines do. Deliberately provocative (Redux maintainer Mark Erikson has already pushed back) but with substance underneath.

Alex Russell

React Components in Webflow — Import your React components into Webflow with Code Components. Expose props and slots for visual editing, distribute via shared libraries, and keep your hooks, state, and context exactly as written. Or generate new components with AI directly in the canvas.

Webflow sponsor

React 19.2.8, 19.1.9 and 19.0.8 Released — Small bumps for the React 19 release lines to fix a DoS vulnerability that could be triggered by sending specially crafted requests to server function endpoints. (v19.1.9 and v19.0.8 here.)

React Team

IN BRIEF:

The first of Next.js's promised regular security releases is here with the July 2026 Security Release addressing several vulnerabilities.
Want to try TypeScript 7.0 with Next.js? You can now enable experimental.useTypeScriptCli in Next.js 16.3 Preview to test it out.
GTKX lets you build native Linux desktop apps with React and GTK4, and v1.0 has reached release candidate status.
The React Router team advises upgrading to v7.18.0 or v8.3.0 due to several newly published CVEs.

shadcn/ui Adds React Aria as a Component Base — Now it's even easier to use Adobe's React Aria component suite if you're a shadcn/ui user. You can now choose React Aria anywhere you can choose Base UI or Radix, including the CLI, presets, and shadcn/create.

shadcn Team

🍞 In other shadcn/ui news, it has a new Toast component.

Shopify's React to Preact + Web Components Migration — How Shopify squeezed five React-based checkout widgets under a hard 64KB budget by switching to Preact and web components.

Justin Henricks (Shopify)

📄 Props, Composers, and Providers: The Composition Pattern We're Converging On – One team's decision ladder for component composition, from plain props up to context contracts. Maxime Grébauval

📄 How to Find a Next.js Memory Leak in Production – How to see if three unfixed memory leaks in Next.js affect you. Xabier Lameiro

📊 Which React Native Animation Library Should You Use for Performance? Andrei Calazans

📄 Inside TanStack Table v9's New Reactivity Model Riccardo Perra (TanStack)

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

React Colorful 5.8: A Simple Color Picker Component — A six-year-old color picker component that's simple, straightforward, and now has Shadow DOM support. The homepage includes a live demo.

Vlad Shilov

Shadscan: Deterministic UI Audits for shadcn Apps — A tool that statically analyzes your shadcn components using almost 60 deterministic checks (no AI or API keys needed) around fundamental accessibility, state, and composition best practices.

OrcDev

edge-aura: Give Your Viewport an Organic Screen-Edge Glow — A Canvas 2D effect for adding a full-viewport organic glow at the screen edge with no CSS required. A React component makes it easy to integrate.

Takuya Jodai

React on Rails 17.0 – A complete way to integrate React into Ruby on Rails apps. Now with full support for React 19. (Homepage)
React Data Table 8.8 – Get a standalone data table with sorting, pagination, inline editing and more in ten lines. 35KB gzipped, Apache 2.0 licensed.
📈 react-native-graph 1.3 – Skia-powered high-performance graphs and charts for React Native.
react-native-nitro-sqlite 9.7 – Fast SQLite library for React Native built using Nitro Modules.
React Router 8.3 – Includes updates for unstable RSC apps that use custom entry files.
react-jsonschema-form 6.7 – Component for building forms from JSON Schema.
react-intersection-observer 10.1 – Hooks for the Intersection Observer API.
MDXEditor 4.1 – Popular rich Markdown text editor component. (Demo)
Jotai 3.0 Alpha

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Fast components, slow data? TimescaleDB extends Postgres so your dashboards query live data at scale.