This Month in React

Transcript and links 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React July 2026 (01:27) - New releases (01:29) - Vite+ Beta (02:41) - TypeScript 7.0 released (03:56) - Open PR for “content mappers” to typecheck templates other than JSX (04:57) - Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools (05:18) - OXC type-aware linting stable (06:00) - NPM v12 and new security defaults (07:00) - Dependabot supports a configurable delay (07:37) - More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x (08:06) - Main Content (08:07) - React org updates (08:22) - “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page (11:11) - Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council (14:37) - Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally (15:39) - Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX (17:16) - Poimandres published a charter (20:20) - For instance, WebGL text rendering (21:30) - React-alikes (21:40) - Octane from Dominic Gannaway (28:27) - Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency" (29:12) - “Do people think FE innovation is dead? (30:31) - Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3 (32:22) - "no benchmark […] has captured the relationship between reactivity and rendering" (35:04) - ReactBench to measure AI code quality from Aidan Bai (36:37) - Alex Russell thinks everyone is screwing up state management (47:41) - Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works (48:22) - And a post on RSC performance patterns (48:41) - TanStack removed RSCs from the website (51:04) - Mark is experimenting with perf improvements for RTK v3 (57:36) - Making referential stability a type (59:17) - Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha (59:39) - Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle (01:00:17) - Marker (01:02:04) - Goodbye, forever, probably. (01:08:41) - Conferences (01:08:53) - Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland (01:09:14) - Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain

Quick hitsJob market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi, Trueup.io Conferences (React, Javascript)App.js Conf May 28-30 Kraków, Poland CityJS Athens May 27-31 Athens, Greece React Summit June 13-17 Amsterdam, NL React Conf is back Oct 7-8 SquiggleConf 2025 CFP closes May 23 Sponsored by Infinite Red New releases Anime.js v4 RN v79 Next.js 15.3Rspack joins the Next.js ecosystem React Aria April 11th Redux Toolkit 2.7 Vitest 3.1 Main ContentReact Labs: View Transitions, Activity, and more React 19.1“Owner Stack” is a very underrated React concept“One React mistake that's slowing you down” Advanced React Component Patterns Parents & Owners in React: Rendering Performance Improvements in Expo using owner stack Dan Abramov is writing again (don’t 👏ruin 👏 his 👏 process)React for Two Computers (Complement to his React Conf talk) JSX Over The Wire Impossible Components ⚡ Lightning round ⚡Next.js RFC: Deployment Adapters APIflightcontrol.dev from last year: Secret knowledge to self-host Next.js Styled-Components in maintenance modeRIP Styled-Components. Now What? Redwood announces new Cloudflare-based RSC SDK, existing framework in community maintenance mode TC39 kills Records and Tuples proposal. Possible alternative is “Composites” React Compiler RC "Just use Vite”… with the Workers runtime (Vite on Cloudflare) React Router / Remix CVE Silk Library - native-like swipeables for the web {transitions} = f(state) Tailwind 4, Bun, and old Macs: A Supermarket Bag And a Truckload Of FOMO Introducing Firebase Studio Gumroad is open source! Automattic laid off 16% of staff

Join Reactiflux! Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi (it's not good) Conferences (React, Javascript) React Paris March 20-21 Paris, France React Native Connection April 3–4 Paris, France React Miami, Apr 17-18 Miami, FL, USA CityJS London April 23-25 London, UK Sponsor Read New releases React Router 7.2 TS 5.8 Prettier 3.5 RTK Query v2.6.0 Standard Schema Astro 5.2 (also Astro 5.3) Turborepo 2.4 Main Content Sunsetting Create React App Original “Sunsetting CRA” post vs Build a React app from Scratch Backlash and confusion over initial version Mark filed a PR to rewrite the docs, the React team closed that but based a new one off it Between the Wires: An interview with MooTools contributors Official CRA post and setup docs updates (updated versions): Sunsetting Create React App Docs: Creating a React App Docs: Build a React App from Scratch How to start a React Project [2025] Jack Herrington published create-tsrouter-app under the Tanstack umbrella ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ Vercel acquires Tremor Things people get wrong about Electron Initial Observables support in Chrome 135, Observable API Why I rebuilt ProseMirror’s renderer in React JavaScript Temporal is coming Do JavaScript frameworks still need portals? What Do We Do with You, Old React? “Records and Tuples” proposal is now “Composites” Overlap with “structs” proposal?

New releasesRelay v18.2 React-admin v5.4 Preact v10.25 Playwright 1.49 Astro 5.0 Radon IDE React 19 compat for react-redux and Redux Toolkit Main ContentReact 19 is actually out (blog post)Upgrade guide from April 2024 TKDodo: Ref Callbacks, React 19, and the Compiler Introducing React Native Screens 4.0.0 React 19 support in React Native TBD (0.77/78?)Expo has experimental support Next 15.1experimental: css inlining React Native Fast IO now in prerelease Create Target Widgets in Expo ⚡ Lightning round ⚡React Native demo for Android XR If Not React, Then What? Vitest vs. Jest Aiden Bai “render-shaming” sites while working on React Scan React Scan adds React Native support Lenz’s Weber’s testing-library/react-render-stream-testing-library

Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi New releasesReact Native 0.76 properNew Architecture is here BlueSky and Expensify React Compiler Beta React DevTools v6 Zustand v5 eslint-plugin-react-hooks v5 Announcing Deno 2/r/bun: Deno 2 vs Bun? What are your thoughts? /r/deno: Deno 2 vs Bun? What are your thoughts? Tauri 2.0 One - the new RN frameworkCreators of Tamagui Built on ZeroSync Cloudflare Workers updates Zeego 2.0 ConferencesHalfStack London London, UK Nov 13 React Native London London, UK Nov 15Special Discount for podcast listeners with discount code TMIR React Summit US New York, USA Nov 18-21 React Africa Casablanca, Morocco Nov 29 React Day Berlin Berlin, DE Dec 13 & 16 Sponsor Read Main ContentSome React 19 progress, but no ETALazy Context Propagation “Server Actions” renamed to “Server Functions” React Native Bottom Tabs library using native bottom tabs Meta Connect showcasing new AR/VR apps built with RN Static Hermes Updates Reddit is revolting against Epic ReactAnyone else feel burnt by Epic React? : r/reactjs Epic React V1 => V2 Upgrade & Deception. Web Components Are Not the FutureFollowup to this from March 2020: Maybe Web Components are not the Future? Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present Liskov's Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components Announcing VoidZero - Next Generation Toolchain for JavaScriptOXC compiler Oxc Transformer Alpha Updates from the 104th TC39 meetingStage 4 proposalsPromise.try Sync Iterator Helpers Import Attributes JSON modules RegExp Modifiers Language Evolution “JSSugar” proposalNullVoxPopuli on X NullVoxPopuli on X BrendanEich on X Daniel Ehrenberg thoughts ⚡ Lightning round ⚡The Disappearance of an Internet Domain – .io How to control a React component with the URL If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed Web Without Walls — Dan Abramov Preact compat discussion Content-visibility in CSSUsing CSS containment contain - CanIUse content-visibility - CanIUse How I Built My Blog • Josh W. Comeau Types of React Components [2024]

React 19 progress:Initial “Suspense sibling pre-rendering” implementation work DevTools support for Server Components and Viewing Source of Server Components React Native 0.75 released How To Create An NPM Package | Total TypeScriptBlogged Answers: My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM Implementing React from scratchDidact - build your own React Getting Closure on React Hooks Configure retention periods for deployments – Vercel Waku 0.21 includes React Server Actions supportReact Beyond the Render Redux Essentials tutorial updated Announcing TypeScript 5.6 RCIterator Helpers Using React DOM in Expo native apps NitroModulesComparing to ObjC Turbomodules, it is significantly faster JSR and Deno: Final Review 🚮 – David BushellWhat Deno Got Wrong About HTTP Imports The Deno Package Paradox – David Bushell 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ Cocoapods going into maintenance mode web-infra-dev/rslib: The library build tool powered by Rsbuild. Accident Forgiveness · The Fly Blog spatial compute How Airbnb Smoothly Upgrades React Use useId() Instead Of Hand-Making IDs Common Sense Refactoring of a Messy React Component Introducing Structured Outputs in the API | OpenAI Sentry is now Fair SourceFair Source Definition Quick hits Job marketFRED data Layoffs.fyi New releasesMaterial UI v6 is out now 🎉 - MUI Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate Nx 19.5 is here! Stackblitz, Bun, Incremental Builds for Vite, Gradle Test Atomizer ConferencesReact Universe 2024 Wrocław, Poland Sept 5-6 JSConf Chile Santiago, Chile Sept 5-7 UtahJS Conf Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. Sept 13 React Alicante September 19-21 JSConf Ireland Dublin, Ireland & Online Sept 25-26 SquiggleConf Boston, MA USA Oct 3-4 RenderCon Nairobi, Kenya Oct 4-5 React India Goa, India Oct 17-19, 2024 React Brussels Brussels, Belgium Oct 18 React Advanced London London, UK Oct 25, 28