Hi everyone!

This week we have 2 official blog posts from the React and React Native core teams! CRA is deprecated and React Native 0.78 is out with React 19 support.

🎂 We're also celebrating this newsletter's 5th anniversary! The first issue went out on February 13th. For the first 2 years it was only in French. I’d love to know who's been reading since the early days—say hi if you have! 😀

Check our partner conf React Native Connection -  🇫🇷 Paris - April 1-2 - 15% discount with code "TWIR". The French React Native conference is back with Britta Evans-Fenton (Shopify), Kadi Kraman (Expo), Krzysztof Piaskowy (Software Mansion), Saad Najmi (Microsoft) and more - and great deep-diving talks!

Hi everyone!

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

This week we’ve been carefully reading the State of React 2024 survey results, and also found quite a few interesting articles. Things have been quieter when it comes to new releases.

Check our partner conf App.js, happening May 28-30 in 🇵🇱 Kraków! The biggest React Native and Expo-focused conference gives us a 15% discount with code "TWIR". Want to submit a talk? Hurry—CFP is closing soon!

Hi everyone!

This week we have a good variety of React articles and Next.js is finally adding support for Node.js runtime middleware!

Mobile developers will also discover future plans for React Native, including desktop support from Microsoft. A new sortables drag & drop library should unlock new interactions in your app, considering it's quite hard to build all this yourself.

TypeScript continues to progress with a new beta including a flag to support the newly added native Node.js support, and the upcoming browser support. A polyfill for native browser support is already available!

I'm trying something new this week, splitting the newsletter title keywords with a |, following the pattern React keywords | React Native keywords | Other keywords. Do you think this is useful?

Hi everyone!

It's been a fairly quiet week compared with the previous one, and I couldn't pick any headliner!

The most important news for our ecosystem is probably the official deprecation of Create React App. There's also Tailwind v4 and Standard Schema v1.

I'm quite excited by the upcoming TypeScript 5.8 erasableSyntaxOnly flag that forbids usage of features such as enums. This is the path toward making your app compatible Node.js built-in support, and maybe browsers too in the future.

Check our partner conf dotJS 2025 - 🇫🇷 Paris - 03 April - Speakers announced! Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, Sarah Drasner, Director of Engineering at Google and Wes Bos, co-host of Syntax.fm podcast. Get 15% off tickets with code "TWIR”.

Hi everyone!

This is a crazy week, we have a lot of major releases coming from everywhere, in all the sections of this newsletter, that it's impossible to cover them all as they deserve.

I'm particularly excited about the React Native ecosystem improving CSS compatibility with v0.77 and Reanimated v4. This is awesome news for cross-platform development compatibility.

The frontend ecosystem is on fire too 🔥 with awesome releases such as Bun 1.2, Rspack 1.2, Vitest 3.0.

And, Tailwind v4 is expected to drop anytime soon too ! (just after I hit send of course 😅)

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! 🚀