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React for Two Computers — Dan Abramov returns to some deep thoughts that arose while putting together the popular ▶️ React for Two Computers talk he gave at React Conf 2024. You’ll need a very large coffee to make it through this post in one sitting, but it’s a technically-rich meditation on the architecture and theory underpinning ideas like React Server Components.

Konva: A JavaScript 2D Canvas Library — The native Canvas API is good, but Konva is an abstraction that sits on top and provides a more structured way to work with shapes, styling, events, and animations (demos with code). It also has extra integration libraries for Vue, Svelte and React.

Fancy Components: A Growing Library of Ready-to-Use Animated React Components — Includes a whole slew of components for doing various text animations, along with others for backgrounds, physics-related animations, SVG filters, and more. Try them out here.

React Native 0.79: Faster Tooling and Much More — Metro, the React Native bundler, now starts much faster and makes package.json exports and imports field resolution stable. Android app startup also gets significantly faster.

Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs — How Airbnb completed its first large-scale, LLM-driven code migration in moving from Enzyme to React Testing Library.

Deploy Your Next.js App to Cloudflare Workers with the Cloudflare Adapter for OpenNext — OpenNext is a build tool that transforms Next.js apps into packages optimized for development on platforms including AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, and Netlify.

React Reconciliation: The Hidden Engine Behind Your Components — React’s reconciliation algorithm is the process by which React knows how to update the DOM based on changes to the virtual DOM and understanding how it works is essential for producing fast, efficient apps. A great look behind the scenes.

JavaScript's Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution — A nice overview of what the Wasp team is trying to do in building a full-stack webapp framework around React, Node, and Prisma. It’s an increasingly powerful option if you’re looking for a more traditionally feeling full-stack approach.

React 19.1 Released — Not cool enough to get a full blog post on the official blog, but 19.1 brings a lot to the table in terms of fixes, small additions (e.g. support for streaming in edge environments), a new API for prerendering RSCs on the server (as supported in Parcel 2.14.0), and enhanced Suspense support. The headline feature, though, is ‘Owner Stacks’, a...

Learn How to Integrate Clerk with Your Lovable — Lovable integrates Clerk for custom domains, streamlined auth flows, and waitlist-powered onboarding.

TinyBase v6.0: A Reactive Data Store for Local-First Apps — We’re huge fans of this powerful reactive data store that can be used as the entire backend for many types of app. v6.0 adds no new functionality but brings React 19 support and goes ESM-only. It’s well worth investigating and has some compelling features - check out the homepage for more.

React Email 4.0: Components for Creating Emails — React Email is a suite of unstyled React components for creating elegant emails. Now includes a new linting tool for analyzing links in outgoing emails, a spam scorer, and email client HTML/CSS compatibility checker, as well as a few new components.

Svggles: A Way to Make SVGs More Interactive with React — Connect an SVG to a React component and add ways to enable visual interactions such as glow effects, animations, and pointer based effects. GitHub repo.

Master Chrome's DevTools — Join Jon Kuperman for this video course diving into Chrome's DevTools. You'll go beyond console.log(), learning how to inspect, debug, and audit your web apps — tracking performance, identifying bottlenecks, making performance gains, and more. Level up your DevTools skills.

Gemini: Google's AI App Adds 'Canvas' Mode for React Devs — Gemini is essentially Google’s answer to ChatGPT and now has a developer ‘canvas’ mode which can be used to create, iterate, and preview React and HTML code right in the browser. It’s free at a basic level, too, so if you have a Google account, you should get straight in.

React Cookie Manager: A Customizable Component for Cookie Consent — A well-documented solution that will automatically block tracking if necessary and can easily be customized. You can try the live demo here, which is also an interactive page demonstrating its features.

react-anchorme 5.0: Links Up URLs and Emails in Text — A component that uses Anchorme.js to detect linkable elements in text and create the links for them. Now supports React 19.

Next.js 15.2.3 Released Due to Security Vulnerability — This past weekend, a new version of Next.js was released to resolve a serious security vulnerability, which could allow the skipping of middleware (including that used for authentication). Self-hosted Next.js deployments need to be upgraded immediately. The news led to a lot of responses from extensive HN threads to deep dives into the vulnerability, and criticism...

Deploying a Next.js App to Production on Any Server — A popular article from last year that’s been updated for 2025 and Next.js 15.

▶  React Query API Design: Lessons Learned — You might know Dominik for all his work on React Query, TanStack Router, and his epic React Query - The Bad Parts series. Here, he walks us through the design choices made while building React Query and shares lessons and mistakes valuable to anyone building their own libraries. (30 minutes.)

json-edit-react: Component to Edit and View JSON/Object Data — An elegant, well presented component to take a JavaScript object, complete with nested objects, and show off the values, as well as allowing users to edit them. Has a neat demo on the homepage showing how flexible it is. GitHub repo.

Bright: A React Server Component for Syntax Highlighting — Customizable and includes all of VS Code’s syntax highlighting themes, some of which are demonstrated on the page.

Meet the AI Coding Assistant Built for React — Augment gets your components, hooks, and state management. Ask anything about your frontend.

A shadcn/ui + Tailwind v4 Dashboard Example with Code — The shadcn/ui team has open-sourced an app they built to test Tailwind v4 and React 19 support. It’s a dashboard supporting custom themes, colors and scaling, along with a neat, flexible data table. The code is here.