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• (00:00) - This Month in React February 2026

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Main Content

• React2Shell vulnerability
  • Initial announcement
    • Followup denial-of-service CVE and source code exposure CVE
    • Vercel bulletin
  • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare report on exploit attempts
    • Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
  • Tech analysis: “Flight Protocol”
  • Vuln is carefully crafted Promise deserialization + `new Function` eval
  • PRs: Initial fixes, Promise cycles / function toString, more Promise cycles
  • Guillermo’s breakdown
  • Shruti’s breakdown
  • Comms critique
  • “React is rainbow colored (function types)”
  • What does this mean for React and RSC adoption going forward?
  • When I go back and look at react.dev now \[…\] it feels half-finished
• React Native year in review
  • More CSS support
  • Expo EAS hosting
  • RN 0.78: React 19 support
  • Lynx launched
  • RN 0.79: JSC moving to Community Package
  • RN 0.80: Freezing the legacy architecture
  • RN 0.81: Android 16 support for edge to edge
  • 1.0 on the horizon
  • Vega OS launched
  • RN 0.82: Only new architecture
  • Expo App Awards
  • RN 0.83: New Devtools - no breaking changes
• React year in review
  • CRA deprecation, new install docs (Vite\!)
  • Styled Components Deprecated
  • Releases: 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent), Compiler 1.0
  • Research: View Transitions canary, perf, concurrent stores, “throw a promise” deprecated (but not merged yet)
  • “Async React” and the ecosystem
  • React Foundation
  • React growth skyrockets
  • React Router RSC support, TanStack Start WIP RSC, Waku
  • Dan’s RSC explainers (he had a bunch of things to say)
  • Remix v3 Jam recap (not React but relevant)
  • Mark went from frustrated (CRA) to excited (ReactConf, foundation, team efforts)

⚡ Lightning round ⚡

• TS 7 progress update
• NPM classic tokens revoked
• GitHub Actions planned work
• Github Action pricing change and immediate about-face
• Stacked diffs proposal in the works?
• Anthropic bought Bun
• SVG Clickjacking from Lyra (SVG filters as logic gates??)
• Dan Abramov’s RSC Explorer: https://rscexplorer.dev/ , https://overreacted.io/introducing-rsc-explorer/
• Instant-loading Github repo explorer using RSCs: Without the blue bar
• React Router’s Take on RSCs
• How AI Coding Agents hid a Timebomb in Our App
• (https://acusti.ca/blog/2025/12/16/react-compiler-silent-failures-and-how-to-fix-them/)
• Great history of web dev: 30 Years of
  Tags
• Nadia Makarevich’s latest deep dive: Bundle Size Investigation
• Extensive ES2026 feature preview
• React reconciler for Blender 3D
• The “why” of React Fiber
• Async React articles from Aurora Scharff and Jack Herrington

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TMiR on Bluesky

• [00:13] Intro
• [01:00] New releases
  • [01:04] BetterAuth 1.4
  • [02:47] Immer 11, RTK 2.11
  • [06:00] Storybook 10
  • [06:22] 0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package
• [08:04] Main content
  • [08:08] Ecosystem panel discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY
  • [14:46] React Concurrent Stores: Polyfill, React-Redux POC
  • [17:52] React Router and transition usage
    • [18:08] Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router
  • [22:53] The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS
    • [25:57] TanStack DB 0.5
    • [31:01] Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation
  • [32:25] State of the web ecosystem
    • [33:13] Cloudflare November outage postmortem
    • [36:10] "What if people don't want to create things"
      • [39:39] “When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?”
      • [45:53] Related, “Dead Framework Theory” from last month
    • [48:12] Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets
    • [51:48] Npm attack, Shai-Hulud round 2
      • [52:06] Analysis of its evolution in code from Sept
      • [55:23] Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain from September
      • [55:29] NPM update on token management changes
• [55:34] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
  • [55:38] TS 6.0 hopefully Feb 2026, 7.0 (native) soon after (more details in the TypeScript.fm podcast)
  • [56:03] Latest TC39 proposal updates
  • [56:32] Chrome (and other browsers) wants to remove XSLT from the web platform
  • [57:14] “Your URL is Your State”, and David K’s “Goodbye, useState” talk
  • [57:46] Aiden Bai’s “React Grab” util
  • [58:39] Creating a custom Node module loader to import from Bittorrent
  • [59:22] Ryan Carniato’s stream on researching “async signals”
  • [59:33] Details of building Node’s TS type stripping support
  • [59:58] The Web Animation Performance Tier List
• [01:00:14] Conferences (React, Javascript)
  • [01:00:22] CFPs
    • [01:01:01] React Paris (Also a community survey)
    • [01:01:12] JSWorld CFP closes Dec 31, notifies by Feb 1
• [01:01:18] Ending

• (00:00) - This Month in React - November Episode (SM)

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• [00:00:00] Intro
• [00:00:46] New releases
• [00:00:49] Immer 10.2
• [00:01:55] ArkType ArkRegex (typed regex)
• [00:02:41] Main Content
• [00:02:45] React Conf
• [00:02:50] Official ReactConf 2025 Recap
• [00:02:57] Introducing the React Foundation (also from Linux Foundation, Meta engineering, and Seth Webster)
• [00:17:03] 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent)
• [00:17:27] React Native news
• [00:17:32] New architecture only from v0.82
• [00:18:52] Vega OS announcement
• [00:19:04] Vega introduction at React Conf
• [00:22:36] Joe Savona’s “Exploring React Performance” talk
• [00:23:26] Ricky’s “Async React Part I” and “Part II” (repo)
• [00:27:12] Async React Working Group
• [00:27:35] First discussion of more docs ideas
• [00:28:27] Remix v3 announcement
• [00:29:03] Announcement demo timestamped breakdown
• [00:31:28] Updates syntax can be customized?
• [00:34:44] I built the same app 10 times (code)
• [00:37:57] Same author as React Won by Default and It’s Killing Innovation
• [00:43:33] Solito 5
• [00:46:49] Next 16 and Directives debate
• [00:46:56] Next 16 released
• [00:49:41] Directives and the Platform Boundary
• [00:50:34] Technical critique of Next App Router: Everyone Hates Next.js
• [00:54:56] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
• [00:54:58] ViteConf roundup
• [00:55:49] AWS Outage Postmortem
• [00:57:10] Voltra
• [00:58:10] Building fully native apps with EAS
• [00:58:52] React Native \<\> Imgui
• [00:59:53] Lodash maintenance foundation
• [01:00:45] Build Your Own Key-Value Database
• [01:02:24] Jared Palmer asking for GH PR suggestions and giving some technical details
• [01:03:54] Node 25 with JSON.stringify improvements
• [01:04:15]

• [00:52] New releases
  • [00:54] TanStack Start 1.0 RC!
  • [01:13] react-window 2.0 rewrite
  • [01:44] Apollo Client 4.0
  • [01:59] Redux Toolkit 2.9.0
• [02:47] Main Content
  • [02:52] React 19.2 coming soon?
    • [03:24] in canary, with docs
      • [07:18] last React Labs post mention
    • [11:43] useEffectEvent in canary and has docs
    • [15:47] Compiler inferring function names
    • [16:08] Docs for eslint-plugin-react-hooks, including rules and compiler issues
  • [17:15] React Native 1.0 on the horizon
  • [22:02] “React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation”
    • [22:18] Inevitable HN argument
  • [27:54] Ricky on Ryan Carniato’s stream talking about scheduling and demoing using modern React features
  • [33:41] Server Components
    • [33:44] React Router RSC framework mode preview
    • [34:36] also middleware is now stable
    • [34:44] Krasimir Tsonev’s “Can I Use RSC Today?” support matrix and experimental Forket “RSC without a framework” build tool
    • [35:43] RSBuild support for RSCs
    • [35:55] Useful post on parallel and recursive route rendering
  • [36:35] All the NPM compromises and malware this month
    • [39:47] npm package maintainer Qix
    • [39:48] CrowdStrike npm Packages
    • [40:16] GitHub Actions npm Token Theft
    • [41:01] GitHub response
• [42:00] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
  • [42:03] Porting Modern TypeScript to Run on DOS
  • [42:35] Cloudflare DDOSed themselves with a bad useEffect fetch
  • [43:11] A very lovely writeup of the evolution of css zoom
  • [43:56] What You Need to Know about Modern CSS
  • [45:21] Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/download progress
  • [45:40] Why do browsers throttle JS timers?
  • [46:01] “How Modern Browsers Work” deep dive, Addy Osmani
  • [46:32] Biome: Stress-testing WIP noFloatingPromises lint rule
  • [48:37] Bun: How bun install is so fast
  • [49:23] Styled-Components fork for perf and React 19 compat
  • [50:02] Vite SSR: Custom getStaticProps
  • [50:11] Dominic Gannaway’s new framework Ripple
  • [50:35] Remix v3: MJ hints “iframe-like async primitives”
  • [51:57] React Native RFC to remove Old Architecture
  • [52:28] Cloudflare’s new “Cap’n Web” RPC; GraphQL alternative?
  • [55:26] Expo UI: Building SwiftUI apps
  • [55:57] TanStack DB: An interactive guide
  • [56:21] TS 6.0: may switch to strict options by default
  • [57:28] Shopify’s RN New Architecture migration
  • [57:42] The Bloat of Edge-Case First Libraries
• [58:51] Conferences (React, Javascript)
  • [58:53] React Alicante Oct 2-4
  • [59:13] React Conf is back, Oct 7-8 Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • [59:29] Remix Jam, Oct 10, Toronto ON, CA
  • [59:43] ViteConf Oct 9-10 Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • [59:52] JSConf North America Oct 14-16 Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA
  • [01:00:03] JSConf Chile Oct 24-25 Santiago, Chile
  • [01:00:10] React Native London Oct 30-31
  • [01:00:22] React India Oct 31 Nov 1 Goa, India
  • [01:00:26] Wey Wey Web Nov 17-18 Malaga, Spain
  • [01:00:39] React Summit Nov 18-21 New York, NY, USA
  • [01:00:48] React Advanced Nov 28th, London UK

• (00:00) - This Month In React - September 2025 (SM)

• New releases
  • TS 5.9
    • TS 6.0 may make `strict` and change other defaults
  • React Native 0.81
  • Next 15.5
  • Preact 11 beta
    • Hydration 2.0
  • Bun 1.2.21
    • Native YAML support. Definitely not going to cause any problems
  • Tanstack DB beta
  • Ghost v6
• Main Content
  • React API changes / updates
    • React deprecating the “throw a promise” Suspense trigger method
      • Discussion between Dan, Dominik, and Ricky about how to support multiple React versions (if at all)
    • Joe Savona: “no useContext in useMemo, the compiler addresses this”
    • Github discussion with Joe about why no context selectors API or signals, research into data modeling, and why “concurrent stores” are the current focus area
      • PR for “concurrent stores” skeleton
      • Third-party `react-concurrent-store` ponyfill package
    • Devtools Suspense Timeline
  • Lee Robinsons’s “Reflections on the React Community” wrap-up post
  • Remix doing its own component model??
    • Remix 3 and the End of React-Centric Architectures
  • Popular nx packages compromised on npm
    • Last month eslint-plugin-prettier maintainers were targeted, this is a much broader attack
• ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
  • React Strict DOM vs React Native for Web in 2025
  • Faster JSON.stringify()
  • Node 22.18 unflags TS type-stripping support
  • Waku switches to Vite’s WIP RSC support
  • Rari, a fast React framework with RSC support built with Rust
  • Selecting values from query results, as well as The Useless useCallback
  • TS+ postmortem (Effect-TS experimental TS fork)
  • React useTransition update ordering details
  • “A Clock that Doesn’t Snap”, Techniques for fixing hydration of values like dates
  • React Cache: It’s about consistency
  • Self-hosting Next at scale
  • Server and Client Component Composition in Practice
• Conferences (React, Javascript)
  • React Universe Conf Sept 2-4, 2025. Wrocław, Poland
  • WaysConf Sept 16-17
  • CascadiaJS Sept 18-19 Seattle, WA, USA
  • https://squiggleconf.com/ Sep 18
  • React Alicante Oct 2-4
  • React Conf is back, Oct 7-8 Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Remix Jam, Oct 10, Toronto ON, CA

• (00:00) - This Month in React - August 2025

• New Releases
  • RN Reanimated v4
  • RN Ignite toolkit v11
• Main Content
  • Compiler docs are merged! (live docs, and config API)
    • Expo docs say it’s “on hold”, but Evan Bacon says Expo 54 may enable the Compiler by default
    • Oh no — more function directives , “use memo” and “use no memo”
    • DIRECTIVES
    • Good thread on some history
    • Some tech discussion on the complexities of making React Compiler work with Oxlint
    • Directive prologues and JavaScript dark matter
  • Node API Support for React Native
  • Vercel shaking things up
    • Leerob is at Cursor now — Five Things [he] Learned at Vercel
    • SWC creator leaves, focusing on SWC for a while
    • Sam Selikoff just joined to do content and stuff
    • Nuxt acquired
    • Netlify Staff Eng Philippe Serhal replies to the Vercel Deployment Adapters RFC from April
  • Ryan Carniato’s “react and signals”
  • React Native Unistyles 3.0 Released
  • React Router and RSCs: The Path Forward
  • Parcel writeup for Server Components
  • WIP Vite RSC plugin support
• ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
  • Corbin’s “History of React Through Code” deep dive
  • TkDodo’s thoughts on when useCallback is useless
  • eslint-config-prettier compromised as part of an NPM supply chain attack
  • Expo Router demo by Evan Bacon AI + RSCs + Expo Router
  • Some tech details on how Meta serves React pages
  • Nitro Image library for React Native
  • A very hacky way to test RSC components
  • A good technical dive into improving INP in a Next app
  • Extra CSS Properties in React Native
  • Chrome 137 adds if support in CSS
  • React Devtools for Firefox may not get updated due to review restrictions
  • Both oxlint and biome are investigating typed lint rule support (Biome v2, tsgolint)
  • Remix v3 dev branch containing support packages
  • React Native Wallet
  • Deno v Oracle update
  • “Content independence day” from Cloudflare (they’re blocking AI crawlers)
  • Some updated Static Hermes perf numbers release available “soon”, being tested internally at Meta
  • State of HTML Survey is open
• Conferences (React, Javascript)
  • 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
  • Squiggle Conf Sept 17-18 Boston, MA, USA
  • React Conf is back, Oct 7-8
  • Remix Jam Oct 10 Toronto, Canada

• (00:00) - This Month in React July Episode - SM

• 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

• 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)