Hi everyone!

This week we continue to notice interesting activity around the upcoming <ViewTransition> component.

Expo is finally launching its universal cross-platform hosting solution, and Shopify shared interesting feedback on its usage of React Native.

Make sure to check our partner conf,️ React Paris 2025 -  🇫🇷 Paris - 20 & 21 March (2 days) / 19th of March (Workshops) - Full Speaker line up just dropped! Jemima Abu, Antoine Chalifour and David Khourshid joined the line up. Get 20% off tickets with code "TWIR”.

Hi everyone!

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

The previous edition was last Friday, so this one will be a bit shorter than usual. We’re resuming the usual pace of one newsletter every week after the holidays.

The 2024 edition of JS rising stars is out, you can start by having a look at which libraries performed well on this flawed but still useful metric of GitHub starts. Spoiler: shadcn/ui gained the most stars (again). Sébastien commented the Tooling section.

Make sure to check our partner 🗓️ Paris TypeScript La Conf' - 🇫🇷 Paris - 28 February - Full speaker line up just dropped! Join Mateusz Burzyński, Elise Patrikainen and David Rousset! Get 20% off tickets with code "TWIR"!

Hi everyone!

We initially planned to return on 8th January.
But here I am a little earlier, wishing you all a Happy New Year! 🎉
With the end-of-year festivities, it's been a quiet week for React, as you'd expect.

I also take the opportunity to share a little newsletter retrospective, and thank you once again for reading the newsletter and making all this possible.

In 2024 the newsletter went from being a sustainable project to a break-even business. This allows me to invest more in the project and improve the content. Let's share some concrete figures from 2023 to 2024 :

• 📈 Subscribers: 31k ➡️ 46k - A great +15k subscribers increase this year. Not exponential as I expected, but still very nice!
• 👥 Writers: 1 ➡️ 4 - I'm no longer the sole writer of this curation newsletter: Benedikt, Matthieu and Cyril have backed me up when I was unavailable.
• 📨 Issues: 38 ➡️ 47 - Onboarding other writers allowed us to send out an email almost every week!
• 💰 Income: 47k€ ➡️ 99k€ ARR - We are getting good as sales, and have successfully convinced most companies we wanted to work with to sponsor us.
• 💸 Charges: 15k€ ➡️ 36k€ - We have increased our charges significantly this year by onboarding guest newsletter writers (14k€). The other charges are ads (12k€), SaaS (7k€) and virtual assistants (3k€).

Overall I think it has been a great 2024 year, looking forward to a promising future. I didn't reach my ambitious goal of 50k subscribers, but I'm not too far. After the summer, it became more challenging to grow, not sure why. I still reached another important symbolic milestone: having more newsletter subscribers than Twitter followers, becoming less dependent of social platforms.

In 2025, I'd like the newsletter to be more than just a list of curation emails. I plan to onboard guest writers, paying them to produce a series of articles on topics they are passionate about. If you think you'd be a great fit, reply and say hi! 👋

If you'd like to help me realize my plans, please share the newsletter with a friend or colleague who might enjoy it, or on any social platform.

Hi everyone!

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!

🎄 We are taking a Christmas break, this is the last newsletter until 8th January.
🧑‍🎄 You've already given me a great gift, we are now 4th most popular JS newsletter according to the recently published State of JS 2024 survey result.

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!

React 19 is officially stable. The number of articles and releases we mention below that are linked to its new features show how big a release this is 🙂

The State of React Native 2024 survey is live. Don’t miss your chance to shape the future of React Native!

There’s also exciting progress in using Rust for frontend apps with tools like Uniffi for React Native and Dioxus, paving the way for more powerful, cross-platform experiences.

Let’s dive in! 🚀

Hi everyone!

This week React developers have either been super grateful or busy spending money on useless things. Luckily, Astro is here to make the headline. We also have 2 great React perf articles.

The React Native ecosystem has been more active, with the official launch of Radon IDE, and many interesting releases.

Node 22.12 is here, with require(esm) enabled by default in LTS! There's also a TC39 meeting in progress with ES proposals progressing, but that's for next week!

Hi everyone!

It's another great week for React with exciting releases, notably React Router 7 and Vite 6. TanStack nearly steals the show!

The React Native ecosystem is not left behind with 0.77 in RC, Legend List, Screens... and a quite exciting Wasm-based innovation.

What's this fancy e-mail on a Monday? Well, we're trying something new!

Last week, React Summit US 2024 took place in New York. The videos will be online soon. In the meantime, we partnered with the organizers to send you a recap of a few selected talks.

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"!

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Let’s dive in! 🚀

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.

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