Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

This week is rather quiet on the web side. Astro's React integration keeps ramping up. Redux is working on significant performance improvements for large apps.

On mobile, we still have a steady flow of interesting releases. Reanimated enabled its new layout engine by default. Shopify presented Helix, its internal tool to move away from RN. Xcode project format is finally moving to JSON!

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Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

Following the React v19.3 release, DevTools v8 is now officially published. Motion shipped a ViewTransition wrapper. React Router optimized re-renders. Apollo Client finally has custom scalars.

On mobile, we have a lot of releases. RN 0.88 will use React v19.3. Shopify is moving away from React Native!

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Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

We could feel it was coming, and here it is, delaying just in time for the newsletter! 😇

React 19.3 is finally out, with View Transitions and Fragment Refs stable! And it looks like updated DevTools are also coming soon.

We also got a sneak peek of React Native 0.88 and Expo Modules 2.0.

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Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

Back from our summer break, we’ll cover news from the last two weeks.

React v19.3 is getting closer. The React Compiler in Rust is now available in Vite and Bun. CSS-in-JS is set to make a comeback.

On the mobile side, React Native keeps refining its public API surface, an important step toward v1.0. Callstack acquired Margelo.

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Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here!

Back after a little break to cover news from the last two weeks. A lot is going on, apparently not everyone is on holiday because we still have many interesting releases, including many RCs from upcoming major versions.

The native React Compiler rollout continues. React v19.3 seems around the corner. Plenty of TanStack Router/Start and Next.js content.

React Native 0.87 is now out, paving the way for v1.0.

🏝️ We’ll be taking another break next week. See you in September. 👋

Hi everyone, Kasia and Kuba from Software Mansion here.

This week, Next.js 16.3 officially shipped, bringing Instant Navigations to the App Router and cutting dev server RAM usage by up to 90%.

On the React Native side, a new, faster PlainText component and a deep dive into Vision Camera v5.

Across the broader dev ecosystem, GitHub stacked PRs finally entered public preview with native base retargeting and a gh-stack CLI.

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🏝️FYI: we’re taking a break next week; see you soon!

Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

This week we have an interesting React challenger, keeping its mental model but compiled ahead of time. Also various major announcements from the TanStack side.

On the mobile side, we have interesting RN 0.87 PRs to look at, discussions around workers / worklets, a WebGPU/Skia integration, and React Navigation 8 / Screens 5 progress.

Last week, many proposals progressed during a TC39 meeting. npm is going to scan for malware at publish time. Core Web Vitals will now measure SPA soft navigation.

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Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

This week we have React and Next.js security patches. React Aria becomes first-class in shadcn. A benchmark grades coding agents at real React tasks. The rise of TSRX and its upcoming framework.

On the mobile side, Swift Package Manager support is finally coming.

A TC39 meeting is in progress, we'll share the proposal updates next week. Oxlint type-aware linting is ready for prime-time. Meanwhile, Yuku explains how it outperforms Oxc at parsing JS.

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Hi everyone, Konrad and Szymon from Software Mansion here.

This week, the React team documented its reorganization into working groups. The docs got a new section on what actually activates a Suspense boundary. A few thoughtful posts weighed React against lighter alternatives like HTMX and SolidJS.

On the React Native side, two RFCs caught our eye: media queries in StyleSheet and ViewTransition support, plus a Nitro Modules rewrite of Rive that's up to 94x faster.

Also worth your time: the newest version of npm blocks install scripts by default!

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Hi everyone, Seb and Jan here 👋!

Things are relatively calm on the React side this week, but it's still worth highlighting Base UI becoming the default headless lib in shadcn, and Vinext getting close to production-ready.

On the mobile side, React Native 0.87 went full Marie Kondo. We also have a nice preview of React Navigation 8 and the relentless stream of AI tooling updates.

TypeScript 7.0 is out, and it's 10x faster. Ecma has officially approved ES2026, and HTTP is finally getting its long-awaited QUERY method.

Enjoy!