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📨 #204: React at Meta, React Compiler, React Router, Next.js, StyleX, Mitosis, One, Hermes, BottomTabs, Zeego, Storybook, Nitro, TC39, Vite, Deno, Bun, Brisa, Lucia...

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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!

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    • New Instagram and Facebook mixed-reality apps for the Meta Quest headset. These apps use React Native and run on Static Hermes. The team was able to reuse existing Facebook web code and infrastructure thanks to technologies such as StyleX and React Strict DOM.
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