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This week I'm excited about a promising new headless component library, and I've found various interesting articles about Web Components relevant to React developers.
On the mobile side, Google introduced Android XR and React Native support is already coming!
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⚛️ React
Base UI 1.0 alpha
I’m usually not into UI libs. But when Radix, MUI and Floating UI creators gather to create a new set of 25 unstyled, accessible, composable primitive components with great care to details, I think it’s worth paying attention! Radix is super popular these days (notably thanks to shadcn/ui), but has been less actively maintained recently, and a new headless lib challenger is always welcome!
React 19 and Custom Elements
Various related articles I found interesting:
💸 React Bricks – the Visual CMS for React got more accessible with lower entry price and flexible pay-as-you-go options. Start for free!
🐦 Lee Robinson explains why transitioning between pages when running Next.js locally take time
👀 Next.js PR - unstable_rootParams(): A new convenient experimental API to return path params from all path segments up to the root layout. Looks particularly useful for accessing a i18n [locale] param.
👀 Next.js PR - experimental.newDevOverlay: A new dev overlay is coming and the feature flag already exists.
👀 Rsbuild PR - plugin-react-router: React Router framework features (Remix) are now implemented as a Vite plugin, but it seems other bundlers could also turn React Router into a framework 😲
🎄 GitHub Unwrapped 2024: The Remotion-based project has just been update for 2024.
📜 How to validate your React i18next application: Present a workflow based on react-i18next to prevent missing, unused, and invalid translation keys. There’s another post for react-intl users.
📜 Rails + Stimulus + React - The definitive way to integrate: Using Stimulus data attributes to mount a React autocomplete component on a Rails page.
📜 Build-time Open Graph Images in Remix: Explains limits of Satori, and introduces a new remix-og-image Vite plugin that spawns a Chromium instance.
📜 5 tips to effectively optimize INP in React: Reduce DOM size, split components, use Suspense, avoid hydration errors, pay attention to useEffect that can be synchronous.
📜 You might not need a React Form Library: Shows how to validate forms server-side and client-side without a library.
📜 Introducing TanStack Start
📜 React Tech Stack for 2025
📜 Sharing Types and Code Between the Server and Client
📜 Storybook tags - Organize your components and stories to match the way you work
📜 The Mental Model of Server Components
📜 How to Dockerize a React App
📦 Inertia 2.0 - Redefining Frontend Development for Laravel: New major version of this tool that seamlessly integrates React into PHP backends. New features: async requests, deferred props, prefetching, polling.
📦 Apollo Client 3.12 - GraphQL fragment data masking: Similar to Relay, Apollo Client improves in colocation, encapsulation, and performance. A component will only receive the fields it needs, and nothing more.
📦 Virtua 0.39 - Zero-config, fast and small virtual list - React 19 support
📦 Material UI EoY update - MUI v5/6 are compatible with React 19
📦 Roadmap UI - Composable components for building interactive roadmaps - Gantt, Kanban, Calendar, List, Table
🎥 Justin Poli - What happens when you break the rules of React?: Mobx-State-Tree maintainer explains plan to make the reactive library compatible with the React Compiler.
🎥 Wawa Sensei - My Journey Coding a VR/AR Rhythm Game with Three.js & React Three Fiber
🎥 Theo - Astro stole my favorite parts of Next (and I'm hyped)
🎥 Shruti Kapoor - React 19: The Features You Actually Want
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📱 React-Native
💸 Demos - 90+ React Native animations crafted with Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and Skia, by Reactiive
📊 State of React Native 2024 - Survey open, answer it!
🐦 Evan Bacon’s npx create-target demo: New CLI to create iOS targets (widgets, share extensions) that live alongside your Expo app and can communicate with it through shared storage.
🧵 Infinite Red - Top 2024 React Native posts
📣 Android XR SDK Developer Preview: Google announced a new Android platform for extended reality headsets. As you can expect from Oskar, React Native support is coming (demo)
📣 Expo - Upcoming Apple push notification service certificate change: Expo Push Service users do not have to do anything.
📜 Add React Native to the Signal open source app: 2-part series (iOS + Android) shows how to integrate brownfield RN into an existing app.
📜 How to Upgrade React Native in a Brownfield Application
📜 How we promote social sharing on Marathon with Expo
📜 Building Seamless Navigation in Expo Router: Tabs, Modals, and Stacks
📦 React Native Image Playground: To integrate the brand new iOS 18.2+ Apple Intelligence Image Playground into your app, and generate AI images.
📦 Nitro 0.19 - Swift errors, bi-directional Promises, type-erasure
📦 Nitro Palette 1.0 - Fast color palette extraction from images
📦 React Native Volume Manager 2.0 - New Architecture, 0.76+, iOS 15+, Expo 52+
📦 Drag Select 0.1 - Utility for creating a pan gesture that auto-selects items in a list
📦 React Native Testing Library 13.0 RC - Enables concurrent rendering by default, automatically extends Jest matchers
🎥 Dan’s Lab - Basic 3D Graphics with Linear Algebra and React-Native Skia
🎥 Expo - Universal Full-Stack Expo Stripe Payment Integration
🎙️ Rocket Ship 56 - Bluesky's React Native App & AT Protocol with Samuel Newman
🎙️ React Universe On Air - React Native FastIO: Nitro-Powered Performance Boost
🔀 Other
🤭 Fun
See ya! 👋
