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Dan Abramov joins the Next.js team

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#480 — June 26, 2026

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Making Next.js Navigations Feel Instant Without Going Full SPA — A preview of Next.js 16.3 is available that tackles a common gripe about Server Components: sluggish navigation. New opt-in behaviors keep the server-side benefits, while making navigations feel like an SPA. They’ve also created 🤖 an agent skill to help existing projects adopt the new features.

Clark, Story and the Next.js Team

🎉 In a Bluesky thread commenting on the release, Dan Abramov revealed he's joining the Next.js team on a part-time basis!

Still Writing Tests Manually? Meticulous AI Is Here — Notion, Dropbox, Wiz and LaunchDarkly now use a testing paradigm they can’t work without. Built by former Palantir engineers, Meticulous automatically creates an evolving suite of E2E UI tests, delivering exhaustive coverage with no developer effort.

Meticulous sponsor

IN BRIEF:

Vite 8.1 includes a 'bundled dev mode' that makes apps with large numbers of modules boot/reload faster (testing on an app with 10,000 components showed a 15x speedup, with more modest gains on real-world apps).
Rsbuild 2.1 has been released and now includes the new Rust implementation of React Compiler, plus TanStack Start support.
Meanwhile, Rolldown and Vite have temporarily 𝕏 removed the initial Rust React Compiler integration citing a 17% increase in binary size.

Moving Linear from styled‑components to StyleX — Linear migrated its React apps away from a runtime CSS-in-JS approach for ~30% faster renders when navigating between pages. An agent-built codemod (of some 100k lines!) did the grunt work, but Kenneth is honest about what still needed a human touch.

Kenneth Skovhus

Writing Custom Renderers for React — When React 19 deprecated React Test Renderer, the React Native Testing Library maintainer built his own. The upside? We get a tour of the reconciler internals he had to wrangle along the way.

Maciej Jastrzębski (Callstack)

You Write React. You Can Ship It to the App Store This Week — One React codebase, real apps on iOS and Android. Expo handles the builds, the store, and updates. Start free.

Expo sponsor

📄 Waku’s Unique Feature: Slices – A slice is a reusable component with its own render config, and a lazy mode that loads independently, akin to Astro’s server islands. Daishi Kato

📄 How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage – The tale of how TanStack Table v9 uses far less memory than v8 on large tables. Kevin Van Cott (TanStack)

📄 Building a Video Call App with Filters in React Native Ritesh Shukla

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

Takumi 2.0 Beta: Render React Components to Images — A Rust-powered engine that renders JSX to images without a headless browser. v2.0 adds SVG output support, on-demand Google Fonts use, improved non-Latin character support, and new docs. There’s a v2 upgrade guide for existing users. (TanStack uses this on their site.)

Kane Wang et al.

ForesightJS 4: Predictive User Intent for Web Pages — Predicts user intent from mouse and keyboard cues to prefetch content for a snappier UX. v4.0 adds a React package with a declarative <Foresight> component.

ForesightJS, Inc.

cnfast: A Faster Drop-In Replacement for cn() — shadcn/ui ships a cn() helper to compose and merge Tailwind class names. cnfast is a faster, drop-in replacement.

Aiden Bai

🤖 Eve: Like Next.js, But for Building Agents — A new framework from Vercel that provides Next.js-esque structure for building AI-powered agents using TypeScript and Markdown.

Vercel

TinyBase v8.5 – Reactive data store and sync engine backend for powering apps that need to feel fast and work offline. v8.5 adds a module for rendering reactive SVG chart components in React apps.
React Admin 5.15 – SPA framework providing a React and Material Design frontend to REST or GraphQL APIs. v5.15 adds MUI v9 support.
📊 Recharts 3.9 – React + D3 charting library. v3.9 adds new animations and a guide to using them.
RedwoodSDK 1.5 – The Cloudflare-based server-first React framework adds Vite 8 support.
React Native Reanimated 4.5 – Declarative API for smooth animations.
ReactUse 1.0 – A library of 160+ production-ready hooks.
Mantine v9.4 – Popular, extensive component suite.

📰 Classifieds

🏢 Add org context to OAuth flows: users pick an org, clients get an org_id claim.

⚛️ You compose React from components. Compose your AI backend the same way — agents as typed APIs, native TypeScript SDK, 100+ recipes. → Star on GitHub.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

Deno 2.9 has been released with the headline feature being a way to create cross-platform desktop apps.
Node.js v26.4 (Current) has been released with experimental support for package maps which let Node resolve packages from a static JSON file rather than walking node_modules.
The first preview release of npm 12 is available if you want to get testing.
Ever struggled to understand what the AT Protocol is and how it relates to Bluesky? Dan Abramov clears it up in There Are No Instances in atproto, comparing atproto's architecture to RSS vs Mastodon's approach.
Sticking with atproto, Node's James M Snell ponders the possibility of running the npm package system on AT Protocol.
🕹️ A Quake port rendered entirely with CSS and DOM elements (no WebGL or canvas) – that's cool, right?

React Router v8 is boring but good

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#479 — June 19, 2026

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React Router v8: An Intentionally 'Boring' Release — A round-up of the state of React Router, all the new features since v7, v6 going EOL, and why to stick with React Router over the new, shiny Remix when you need a proven solution. Sometimes 'boring' is just what your app needs!

Brooks Lybrand

Free Claude Code Course from Anthropic + Master.Dev — Coding is changing fast, and the engineers who thrive will be the ones who direct AI instead of guessing at it. Lydia Hallie from Anthropic teaches exactly that in our Claude Code course, now free for everyone.

Master.dev sponsor

IN BRIEF:

The Rust-port of React Compiler has been merged! Support is already landing in popular projects, like in Next.js (already in canary), Oxlint 1.70, swc and Rolldown.
React Native 0.86 has been released with edge-to-edge support on Android 15+ and DevTools improvements.
WordPress announced it's upgrading to React 19 in WordPress 7.1, but this has now been temporarily reverted due to plugin compatibility problems.
📊 Expo has unveiled a (free) open beta of EAS Observe, its performance monitoring/observability service for React Native apps.
The release candidate of TypeScript 7.0 has been released.

Can Signals Make React Redux Faster at Scale? — A PR by Mark Erikson where he experiments with signals-based SignalProvider and useSignalSelector drop-ins that only re-run selectors for components whose state actually changed, with some noteworthy performance gains.

Mark Erikson

Wasp Now Lets You Write Your Full-Stack Logic as a TypeScript Spec — The ‘batteries-included’ React, Node and Prisma Wasp full-stack framework has switched its spec layer from its own custom language to TypeScript. Specify the shape of your app like this and Wasp compiles it, with your frontend/backend code, into a full-stack app.

Martin Sosic (Wasp)

That Stale Dashboard Isn't a React Problem — Real-time components need real-time data. Tiger Data keeps your Postgres queries fresh without pipelines or polling.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

📄 TanStack Start: A Mental Model for Next.js Developers – Maps TanStack Start onto Next.js concepts with side-by-side code comparisons. Adarsha Acharya

📄 How We Cut Slow Responses by 80% Migrating to Next.js App Router – A classifieds site moved from Pages Router to App Router, cut slow responses, and tackled some Nginx and Akamai HTML streaming gotchas. Francesca Milan (Subito)

📄 When React Hooks Stop Scaling: Moving Complex State to Zustand Oren Farhi

📄 TypeScript Performance in TanStack Table V9 Kevin Van Cott

📄 React Native Needs a New Video Player Joshua Alphonse

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

React Props First: Prioritize JSX & TSX Props in VS Code Autocomplete — A VS Code extension that reorders JSX and TSX autocomplete so component-specific props appear before inherited DOM and ARIA attributes. GitHub repo.

Yurii

Base UI 1.6: Unstyled UI Components for React — A successor to Radix (by the same creators) for building UIs in your own style atop a strong foundation (shadcn/ui now builds on top of it, too). See all the components here with code samples. v1.6 introduces a one-time password component, improves the Drawer, and the docs were redesigned.

Base UI Team

React Doctor as a GitHub Action for Automatic Reviews — React Doctor is a CLI tool that scans React codebases for issues, returning a list of said issues and a score out of 100. Here’s how to set it up on GitHub Actions.

Million Software, Inc.

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Flaky tests slowing down dev? Meticulous gives engineers confidence to ship faster by autonomously testing every edge case of your web app.

🚀 clerk deploy walks your app to production: instance clone, DNS setup, OAuth credentials, SSL check. Guided, resumable, and available now.

React review changed when AI started writing the JSX. AgentField breaks down the four jobs of code review - and which three get harder once AI writes the diff. → Read the post.

React Flow Smart Edge 4.9 (above) – A custom 'edge' type for React Flow that uses A* pathfinding and never intersects with other nodes.
Ink 7.1 – The popular TUI renderer adds suspendTerminal() for temporarily handing the terminal over to a child process (like an editor, say).
📱 Voltra 2.0 – Build Live Activities & widgets in iOS/Android React Native apps. v2.0 no longer requires Expo Modules.
StyleX 0.19.0 – Meta's styling system adds a new package for inline atomic styles, plus ESLint 10 compatibility.
MUI X 9.6 – The popular component suite rolls out bug fixes and improvements to radial bar charts.
📊 react-plotly.js 4.0 – Component for rendering interactive Plotly charts.
React Aria 1.19.0 – Adobe's accessible component suite.

facebook/react is out, react/react is in

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#478 — June 12, 2026

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React Libraries and Tools for 2026 — Each year, Robin updates his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries. As always, he runs the gamut, from how to spin up a new React app, through to UI, animation, and form libraries, testing, i18n, state management, and more.

Robin Wieruch

Meticulous sponsor

The React Foundation's New Website and... — The React Foundation launched in February taking over the ownership and management of React from Meta. All the pieces are continuing to come together with this new site, and facebook/react now forwards to react/react on GitHub too.

The Linux Foundation

IN BRIEF:

🤖 The framework and provider-agnostic AI toolkit TanStack AI is now in beta, as is TanStack Table v9.
Remco Haszing has proposed returning a disposable from useEffect and useLayoutEffect instead of a callback function.
React Native 0.86.0 has been released, as has React Native Windows v0.83.

Stripping Ads from the Kindle's React Native Homepage — TIL Amazon has been moving the Kindle device UI to React Native. That opens up some interesting Hermes-bytecode-level reverse-engineering opportunities.

Nicholas Tarta

📄 Building an Active NavLink Component in Next.js – A very comprehensive walkthrough. Aurora Scharff

📄 The Best Loading States Are No Loading States – Skip the skeletons: preload before navigation, then transition when ready. Jenna Smith

📄 When React Parent Components Need to Know Their Children Jay Freestone

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

📊 visx 4.0: Airbnb's Visualization Primitives for React — “If you know React, you can make visualizations.” The long-standing visualization component suite is back with full React 19 support. You can see what all the components do here, and there’s an upgrade guide for existing v3 users.

Airbnb

The Best Stack for a Money-Making Mobile App in 2026 — Real monetization data, the mobile stack that actually ships, and why React Native apps drive more revenue than native.

Expo sponsor

📃 PDFSlick 4.0: View and Interact with PDF Documents — A full-featured PDF viewer with React bindings. Built on PDF.js, it handles everything from simple viewing to annotations and juggling multiple large documents. Demo.

Vancho Stojkov

bezier-easing-editor 1.1 (above) – React component for visually editing Bézier curves. Live demo.
📺 React Lite YouTube Embed 3.6 – A tiny, privacy-friendly way to embed YouTube videos without a performance hit.
react-native-network-logger 3.0 – HTTP traffic monitor/request logger for React Native with in-app viewer for iOS and Android.
react-native-compressor 2.0 – Compress images, videos and audio prior to upload, like many social apps do.
React Native Testing Library 14.0 – Note that React 19+ and React Native 0.78+ are now required.
react-redux-firebase 4.0 – Redux bindings for Firebase. Now supports React 19.
MUI (Material UI) 9.1.0 – The component suite adds support for prefers-reduced-motion.

📰 Classifieds

📱 Clerk now ships prebuilt Org management for iOS and Android: account switching, member management, and invite flows — all native.

📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem

😆 performative-ui is a fun set of React components to 'signal how oversubscribed your funding round is' with all the AI company clichés, like ASCII hero art and node graph backgrounds.
Alistair Davidson writes about how building an HTML-first site doubled user submissions overnight after a failed and expensive attempt with React.
At WWDC this week, Apple released the beta of Safari 27 and it's packed with features, including customizable <select> elements, scroll anchoring, and an all-new standards-compliant ESM loader.
Get ready for your Electron apps to become faster! Electron 43 is now in beta with the main process booting from an embedded Node.js startup snapshot and bundles cached as V8 bytecode.

Every TanStack project all at once

Fri, 5 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

#477 — June 5, 2026

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The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast — A founder interview turned React performance teardown on how Conductor, a Mac app for coordinating coding agents, got 2x faster. It walks through a re-render trap, routing choices, and virtualization work on its chat view that added up to the win. I loved seeing the entire stack listed out too.

Dennis Brotzky

💡 The author previously did a similar breakdown of Linear.

The Rust Port of React Compiler is Nearly Ready to Go — Rick, of the React core team, notes Meta has been testing it, seen ‘great results’, and it’s likely to be merged in the next week or two. You can test it now.

Hanlon, Savona, et al.

Next.js + Supabase: Catch N+1 Queries Before Users Do — Learn how you can use one trace from your Next.js page load through the API route, into the Edge Function, down to the Postgres query. Auto-detect N+1 queries, drain Supabase logs into Sentry, and let Seer suggest fixes for new issues.

Sentry sponsor

IN BRIEF:

React 19.2.7, 19.1.8 and 19.0.7 have been released to fix a regression in Server Actions.
Lovable, a popular AI-powered site builder, has switched to TanStack Start by default for all its AIuser-created apps, and explains why.
In two new releases this week, shadcn/ui has added an eject command to inline shadcn's Tailwind code into your own CSS, and the ability to use public GitHub repos as registries.
🔒 There are new versions of React Router v7 (7.16.0), v6 (6.30.4) and Remix 2 (2.17.5) to fix seven vulnerabilities.
VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare.

▶ All 17 TanStack Projects in One App — TanStack now offers a huge suite of projects and libraries (Start, Form, Router, etc.) and this is a surprisingly good way to see what they all do in just 14 minutes.

Jack Herrington

Everything You Need to Know About Source Maps — Source maps map between original source code and its minified/transformed version and are handy when debugging. Be careful to not let them expose your codebase, though…

Neciu Dan

React Query Can't Fix a Slow Analytics Query — Blame the database, not the component. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so analytics stay fast at scale. $1000 credit

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

📄 Component Architecture for React Server Components – An exploration of how RSCs let you improve your page architecture. Aurora Scharff

📄 Things I Learned While Building Expo – Evan’s been at Expo since the early days and created Expo Router, but he’s now leaving. Evan Bacon

📄 How We Cut Build Times by Two-Thirds by Deleting Our CMS – A Gatsby to Astro migration. Eli Lennox (Sentry)

🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries

React Spectrum 1.4: Adobe's Complete React Design System — The homepage does a great job of selling it, but Spectrum is a spectacular toolkit for building a high quality experience. v1.4 adds drag-and-drop support for collection components, highlight selection and TableFooter in TableView, and more.

Adobe

react-call 2.0: Turn a Component Into Something You Can await — Lets you treat a React component like an async function. Ideal for imperative things with obvious return values like pickers, confirmations, and dialogs. v2 adds more options plus HMR persistence.

Ismael Ramon

You Might Not Need An Effect 1.0: Catch Effect Anti-Patterns — An ESLint/Oxlint plugin to catch when you might not need an Effect in React. If you’d rather do it by hand, though, the React docs explain all.

Nick van Dyke

🍪 c15t 2.0: Fast Consent Banners for React Apps — For when you need to add consent banners to your app that render as quickly as possible, keeping both the regulators happy and your users reassured.

Inth

Mantine 9.3 – The huge component suite adds a responsive layout option for pagination, text-wrap controls, a hook for resizable split-panes, a way to create in-situ context menus, and more.
Constate 4.0 – Local state manager that uses hooks and Context. Now ESM-only.
React Gantt 2.7 – A component for the popular timeline visualization approach.
Ink 7.0.5 – A bug fix release for the popular React TUI renderer.
MUI X 9.4, pnpm 11.5, React Email 6.5

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📡 And one for the future..

Liquid DOM: Liquid Glass for the Web — A striking implementation of Apple-style ‘liquid glass’, with React bindings. You need WebGPU and the experimental HTML-in-Canvas API enabled to get the most from it, but it’s a neat look into the (near) future of browser capabilities.

Andrew Prifer