This Month in React

By Reactiflux with Mark Erikson, Carl Vitullo, & Mo Khazali

How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in the React sphere. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recording... more

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July 05, 2025TMiR 2025-06: kinda quiet tbh. ES2025 finalized, new Safari
Job market FRED data, Layoffs.fyi, Trueup.io
New releases
Shadcn
updated Calendar component
Moving from @radix-ui/… to radix-ui
Recharts v3.0
Vite 7.0 is out!
Biome v2
Announcing Oxlint 1.0 | VoidZero
Prettier 3.6: Experimental fast CLI and new OXC and Hermes plugins!
Experimental “fast CLI” support, first discussed Nov 2023 👀
Jest 30
React Native 0.80
Safari v26 beta
Apollo Client 4 RC1
May actually ship pre-compiled with the React Compiler (discussion with Lenz and Joe)
Sponsored by Infinite Red
Main Content
Mark’s “The State of React and the Community in 2025” (slides)
Remix direction?
“Disillusioned with React Hooks”
“I can break signals quickly, don’t use them for real apps”
React Router “Open Governance” (and governance doc)
Debate over Radix UI status
Shadcn has thoughts on switching component libraries
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
Towards React Server Components in Clojure, Part 3
Dan’s latest posts:
Progressive JSON
How Imports Work in RSC
ES2025 spec released. What’s New in ES2025?
The Future of React Native Graphics: WebGPU, Skia, and Beyond
Open sourced identity
Conferences (React, Javascript)
React Nexus July 3-5 Bangalore, India
Big Sky Dev Con Aug 2 Bozeman, MT, USA
Kansas City Developer Conference Aug 13-14 Kansas City, KS, USA
React Universe Conf Sept 2-4, 2025. Wrocław, Poland
WaysConf Sept 16-17
CascadiaJS Sept 18-19 Seattle, WA, USA
SquiggleConf Sept 17-18 Bostom, MA, USA
React Conf is back Oct 7-8, Las Vegas, NV, USA
...more
48min
June 02, 2025TMiR 2025-05: Dan explains RSC. Remix v3? React core team WIP?
Quick hits
Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi, Trueup.io
Conferences (React, Javascript)
React Summit June 13-17 Amsterdam, NL
Render ATL June 11-13 Atlanta, GA, USA
Sponsored by Infinite Red
New releases
TanStack/db
Legend List 1.0 released
Redux Toolkit v2.8.0 (and bugfixes after)
MUI v7.1
Jest has a v30 beta.3 + 4 out. First alpha of it was published October 2023
Zustand 5.0.5, Jotai 2.12.4 and .5
devstore deprecated
Radix has new primitives: OneTimePasswordField and PasswordToggleField
Ant Design 5.25
React Aria May 19, 2025 release
Relay 19 with React 19 support
Storybook 9
Main Content
Expo SDK 53 release
Package.json imports support
React Router RSC preview and other RSC topics:
Vite community PR to add RSC support
Leerob’s list of other RSC explorations
More Dan posts, like Static as a Server and One Roundtrip Per Navigation
RedwoodSDK’s “Your React Framework Feels Broken”
Remix v3 announcement
Discussion between Evan You and Michael Jackson about bundling / HMR approach and tradeoffs
React Core WIP
React MCP server
“Concurrent store” skeleton PR a concurrent-compatible integration for external libraries
being worked on again
Compiler integrations with SWC and OXC
Apple App Store Epic Games Saga 30% Apple cut ruled unlawful in the US
Next reducing Vercel mentions in docs
Lightning round ⚡
Shared Element Transitions in Reanimated
V8 explicit compiler hints
TS Native Previews (usable build of the Go-based compiler)
Vite + Rolldown preview build
Seeded pseudo-random number proposal advances to Stage 2
3-layer data data fetching for complex React apps (RSCs, React Query, optimistic UI)
Johannes Schickling announces LiveStore (reactive SQLite + sync layer)
...more
54min
April 28, 2025TMiR 2025-04: React 19.1 helps debug owner stacks
Quick hits
Job 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 15.3
Rspack joins the Next.js ecosystem
React Aria April 11th
Redux Toolkit 2.7
Vitest 3.1
Main Content
React 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 API
flightcontrol.dev from last year: Secret knowledge to self-host Next.js
Styled-Components in maintenance mode
RIP 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
...more
53min
March 31, 2025TMiR 2025-03: Next had an auth vulnerability, TypeScript is porting to Golang
Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi
Conferences (React, Javascript)
React Native Connection April 3 + 4, 2025 Paris, France
React Miami, Apr 17-18
CityJS London April 23-25 London, UK
App.js Conf May 28-30 Kraków, Poland
CityJS Athens May 27-31 Athens, Greece
SquiggleConf 2025 CFP closes May 23
Sponsored by Infinite Red
New releases
TypeScript 5.8
Typescript Release with Go
React Native 0.78 - React 19 and more
Next 15.2
Tanstack Form 1.0
Zeego v3
Material UI v7
"Slot pattern" for overriding internals
Parcel v2.14
XState Store v3
Better Auth v1.2
Main Content
Lynx being released
Release blog
Security vulneratibility in Next.js: CVE-2025-29927
Original researcher report
CVEs and the NVD Process
Postmortem on Next.js Middleware bypass
Next.js and Coordinated Disclosure
You should know this before choosing Next.js
React Native 0.78 - React 19 and more
React Native Core Contributor Summit 2024 Recap
TypeScript compiler Golang rewrite??
Github discussion and on reddit too
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
JSC being extracted from RN Core
node-modules.dev v0.4.0
Fernando Rojo joining Vercel as Head of Mobile
Next vs TanStack (Router + Vite)
Expo’s AI Strategy
Laravel launched “starter kits” including React
React Native Enterprise Framework
State of React Native 2024
...more
53min
March 02, 2025TMiR 2025-02: Updated new project docs
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?
...more
55min
February 01, 2025TMiR 2025-01: Movement on CRA, Redwood.js dead?
Follow us on Bluesky!
Job market
FRED data, Layoffs.fyi
Sponsored by Infinite Red
New releases
React query 5.63
Docusaurus 3.7
React Native Audio API
Main Content
CRA deprecation, React team against recommending Vite
Dan’s “why CRA exists, don’t use it, possible future options” comment from 2023
Dan: “turn CRA into a launcher” still on the table, but stuck
“CRA is broken and not deprecated” umbrella issue
Ricky merged the PRs, working on legacy docs SEO redirects
Revealed: React's experimental animations API - Motion Blog
Main PR
Static hermes update
React Native Hosting with EAS
Everything You Need to Know About Node.js Type Stripping
Composable Caching with Next.js
Thoughts on What RSC Means for SPAs
Chrome's 2024 recap for devs
Shoutout webstatus.dev
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
Redwood.js 😱
A checklist for your tsconfig.json
Recoil repo archived
Bun: first-class support for s3
Interpolate auto height for animations
Free javascript; Oracle not voluntarily releasing
Understanding React Server Components | Tony Alicea
...more
1h 4min
January 01, 2025TMiR 2024-12: React 19 is here 🎉 2024 is over
New releases
Relay 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 Content
React 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 15.1
experimental: 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
...more
1h
November 30, 2024TMiR 2024-11: React 19 is unblocked, Next 15 is 'stable', Expo launch week. The cool kids are on BlueSky
Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi
New releases
VSCode 1.95
Node v23
Docusaurus 3.6
React Navigation 7.0
better-auth v1.0
Mantine v7.14.0
Storybook 8.4
Gatsby v5.14
Rspack 1.1
Angular beat React to v19
Conferences
React Day Berlin Berlin, DE Dec 13 & 16
Main Content
React 19 RC1
Tech writeup of a solution to the sibling rendering issue that delayed React 19’s release
Next.js 15
TS 5.7
React Router v7 | Remix
Vite v6
Environment API
Expo Launch Party
The magic of Expo DOM Components
Introducing Workflows: CICD built for your app
Environment variables in EAS: new changes to simplify setup
Expo SDK 52
New CSS
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support
State of CSS 2024
Framework betas:
RSC in Expo Router is now in Beta!
TanStack Start beta
React Native 0.77 RC0
New List dropped in React Native
Twitter -> Bluesky migration
Web Without Walls | React Universe Conf 2024
Starter packs
ericclemmons/awesome-starter-packs, stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs
Bluesky Directory
A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋
Technical debate over how “decentralized” Bluesky actually is.
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark
Two ways to the two Reacts
That's not an abstraction, that's just a layer of indirection
React Anti-Pattern: Stop Passing Setters Down the Components Tree
What is HTTP/3?
Leaked Vercel v0 system prompts
React Scan to highlight component renders (by the author of Million.js), which he used to point out Github’s code view re-rendering on every scroll
What’s Next for the React Compiler?
Framer Motion spinning out as an OSS tool (Motion), and conversely GSAP is joining WebFlow
...more
1h 6min
November 04, 2024TMiR 2024-10: React DevTools update, React Native 0.76 (new architecture dropped), Web Components are(n't) the future
Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi
New releases
React Native 0.76 proper
New 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 framework
Creators of Tamagui
Built on ZeroSync
Cloudflare Workers updates
Zeego 2.0
Conferences
HalfStack London London, UK Nov 13
React Native London London, UK Nov 15
Special 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 Content
Some React 19 progress, but no ETA
Lazy 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 React
Anyone else feel burnt by Epic React? : r/reactjs
Epic React V1 => V2 Upgrade & Deception.
Web Components Are Not the Future
Followup 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 JavaScript
OXC compiler
Oxc Transformer Alpha
Updates from the 104th TC39 meeting
Stage 4 proposals
Promise.try
Sync Iterator Helpers
Import Attributes
JSON modules
RegExp Modifiers
Language Evolution “JSSugar” proposal
NullVoxPopuli 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 CSS
Using CSS containment
contain - CanIUse
content-visibility - CanIUse
How I Built My Blog • Josh W. Comeau
Types of React Components [2024]
...more
1h 5min
September 30, 2024TMiR 2024-09 – Async Components??, a React 19 cheatsheet, static Hermes, and trademarks drama
New releases
Node v22.8.0
Deno 2.0 Release Candidate
Relay v18
Redwood v8.0.0
EpicReact v2
RsPack 1.0 and Rsbuild 1.0
Metro 0.80.11
Effect 3.8
Astro 4.15
React Email 3.0
React Native 0.76 RC2
Main Content
Bulletproof React updated for NextJS
New React Native Debugger
Hermes new Runtime Bytecode Translation
React 19
React 19 Cheat Sheet
What’s new in React 19 (moreso a discussion of the evolution of the rendering model)
Build-time Components
You can use async functions for components in React 19??
Core team forgot to put it in release notes??
A milestone for TypeScript Performance in TanStack Router
"we’ve decided to make a few changes to ease the adoption of Next 15"
Trademarks drama
From Deno: JavaScript™
WordPress v WPEngine
Trademark page diff seems targeted
"You're writing a vite-based SPA. You need to add a few API routes (i.e., for authentication). What do you do?"
Mo at Future Frontend: Dynamic UI at the Edge
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
Nitromodules released to public
NodeJS adds an experimental permission model
TypeScript Styleguide
Inside ECMAScript: JavaScript Standard Gets an Extra Stage
The Neverending Story
Remix The Web from mjackson
Replacing React code with CSS :has selector
Performance Optimization Strategies for Large-Scale React Applications
Conferences (React, Javascript)
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
Next.js Conf SF, USA Oct 24
React Advanced London London, UK Oct 25, 28
HalfStack London London, UK Nov 13
React Native London London, UK Nov 15
...more
51min

FAQs about This Month in React:

How many episodes does This Month in React have?

The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.