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· 9 min read
Matthieu Gicquel
Staff Engineer at Theodo
Cyril Bonaccini
Staff Engineer at Theodo

Hi everyone!

Cyril and Matthieu from Theodo Apps (formerly BAM) here 👋, standing in for Seb to bring you the latest news from React and React Native!

Big news from the React world this week! React 19 is back in RC, six months after its initial release was postponed. The suspense over Suspense is finally easing with the introduction of pre-warming.

Expo is making waves during its launch party, and the excitement keeps building! 🚀

The newly announced Expo Workflows promises to revolutionize CI/CD for React Native apps with pre-packaged jobs, intelligent machine selection, and seamless automation — streamlining the entire release process.

Meanwhile, Universal React Server Components in Expo Router have entered beta, marking a major milestone in the journey toward server-first React Native development.

And the party isn’t over yet! 🎉 Stay tuned for next week’s issue, where we’ll dive into even more announcements from Expo’s ongoing celebration.

Also check our partner conf React Paris 2025 (🇫🇷 Paris - 20 & 21 March). Kick off your year with one of the first dev conferences of 2025! Speakers include Dominik 'TkDodo' Dorfmeister, Kent C. Dodds, and Aurora Scharff. CFPs are open, and you can get 20% off tickets with code "TWIR"!

We'd be super grateful if you'd share this newsletter or support us here :

Let’s dive in! 🚀

· 8 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

This week has been calm on the React side, I couldn't really pick any headline despite various interesting releases and articles.

Once again, the React Native ecosystem is on fire, with Expo 52, but not only!

Last chance to answer the State of React 2024 survey that is closing soon. But don't worry, I'll now annoy you with another one that just opened 😃: State of JS 2024.

We'd be super grateful if you'd share this newsletter or support us here :

· 8 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

No major React announcements this week, probably due to the US presidential election.

But we still had a bunch of exciting React and React Native and great community articles. I'm particularly excited about the React Compiler direction, and the release of React Navigation 7 with a new screen preloading API. Shopify's React Native endorsement is also great news for our ecosystem. Of course, I'm happy to unveil what I've been working on for months on Docusaurus too!

Don't forget to answer the State of React 2024 survey. It's closing next week, and we still have less answers than last year so far. If you have an audience, please help spread the word, and add a ?source=my_name parameter so that survey bias can be tracked.

· 7 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

This is another great React week.

Vercel has unveiled new super-interesting caching APIs for Next.js, and the React Native ecosystem is on fire!

On my side, I'm a bit tired of Twitter penalizing me for commenting external links. I'm giving Bluesky a try (@sebastienlorber.com). Come say hi if you are there.

Don't forget to fill in the State of React survey, and mention that you read the newsletter 😇.

· 7 min read
Matthieu Gicquel
Staff Engineer at Theodo
Cyril Bonaccini
Staff Engineer at Theodo

Hi everyone!

Cyril and Matthieu from Theodo Apps (formerly BAM) here 👋, standing in for Seb to bring you the latest news from the React and React Native worlds.

Big updates this week for the React world! Next.js 15 is officially out with key changes around caching and performance, plus the React Compiler has hit beta — lots to look forward to there.

We’ve got a bunch of great articles too, from optimizing state with React Cache to a deep dive into React Native's new architecture.

Speaking of React Native, v0.76 is coming very soon! A major milestone as it's the first version to activate the New Architecture by default, the culmination of years of work that deserves to be celebrated! 🥳️

The State of React 2024 survey is now open and waiting your answers.

Let’s dive in!

· 8 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

This week we have a major Next.js RC release dropping just before Next.js Conf, many diverse releases, and great interactive blog posts.

The React Native world is quite active too, with many great releases from infrastructure packages you probably rely on. I heard v0.76 stable is around the corner!

Node.js 23 is out, and we have 4 new features ready to be standardized in ES2025!

🙏 The newsletter isn't growing as fast as it used to. I'd really appreciate it if you'd recommend it to your friends and colleagues. You can just forward them this email (or the online version link), and they'll decide if it's worth subscribing to. Thanks!

· 8 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

It's been another exciting week with great React cross-platform announcements at the Meta Connect event giving positive feedback on the usage of React Compiler, StyleX, React Strict DOM, and Hermes. I'm also excited for the React Compiler to add official support for React 18 and React 17 (experimental).

On the React Native side, we also had great releases and announcements, notably a new cross-platform framework from the Tamagui team, Zeego 2, native bottom tabs, and RN Storybook 8.

In the frontend world, Deno 2.0 just came out, and we also have a very exciting TC39 meeting happening right now.

Happy reading!

· 10 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

This week we have a lot of interesting news and releases!

There's notably an important terminology change for Server Actions, and a preview of upcoming React DevTools v6.

On the React Native side we also have a broad set of interesting news and previews of exciting packages!

Also, my meme game is back. You'll understand at the end 😂

Check our partner conf React Day 🇩🇪 Berlin (13 & 16 December). Get a 10% discount with our code TWIR.

· 9 min read
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

Another week with many interesting React community articles, notably around the TanStack.

We also have cool React Native announcements such as Nitro Modules.

✍ Don't forget to sign this important petition: Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript

Also check our partner conf 🗓 React Summit US - 🇺🇸 New-York - 19 & 22 December. The great React Summit conference is back in the US for it's second edition!