Sébastien Lorber

Hi everyone, Seb here! 👋

It's been another quiet week in the ecosystem, probably because everyone was afraid to announce anything during the massive Cloudflare outage! By the way, this one was not caused by useEffect 😆!

We have a good variety of interesting links, but I’m not sure what could be the headline. The most important news was probably the announcement of the upcoming CSS grid support in Yoga and React Native, but it’s still a draft PR for now. Also excited by the TC39 proposals progressing.

Make sure to take the State of React 2025 survey, which just opened today!

Hi everyone, Seb here! 👋

This week has been relatively calm in the ecosystem. We have a good variety of community blog posts, releases, and weak signals. I'm not sure what to highlight, so I'll just let you enjoy reading it!

Hi everyone, Seb and Armand here! 👋

This week, we found various interesting React releases and links about directives, Partial Pre-Rendering, performance, micro-frontends, i18n, among other things.

On the React Native side, we had 2 major releases and various interesting weak signals. Beware of the RN Dev Server vulnerability, and make sure to upgrade if needed.

Hi everyone!

This week we have a lot of interesting content about Next.js, with a new major release dropping just before their flagship conf. But also fair cricitisms showing that not everyone is satisfied with the framework.

On the mobile side, React Native developers will enjoy improved support for iOS 26 and the ability to provide native iOS header items. BottomTabs is now v1, and Solito v5 dropped with a paradigm change.

Let’s also welcome a new co-author of this newsletter: Armand Petit helped me on the React Native section.

Hi everyone!

This week is a big one: we barely had time to recover from last week's React 19.2 release, and now React Conf is happening live with another bunch of exclusive announcements!

I'll let you discover it all for yourselves below, enjoy!👌

Hi everyone!

Wondering why the newsletter is late this week?
Well, we had good reasons!

React v19.2 has just been released with the highly anticipated <Activity> component, useEffectEvent hook, and more!

React Native also had exciting updates, notably an OS from Amazon with first-class React Native support, and upcoming solutions to integrate even more tightly with native platforms.

Don't forget that React Conf starts next week, on October 7. The schedule is online, full of interesting talks, and we can expect more exciting announcements!

Hi everyone!

As promised, this week is quite exciting, with a very powerful React core <Activity> component now in canary, close to becoming stable. We also have a massive Expo SDK 54 release!

npm supply chain attacks continue, this time with a Shai-Hulud worm that infects open-source maintainers and automatically publishes compromised packages. Great timing for pnpm 10.16 to come up with a new mitigation option.

Hi everyone!

This week is relatively calm in terms of React news, but I’m saving an exciting React core update for next week, so don't miss my next email 👀!

On the React Native side, we have so many links that it’s a bit overwhelming 😆 And Expo SDK 54 is not even out yet!

Beware of the massive npm supply chain attack affecting very popular packages such as chalk and debug. To mitigate the impact of compromised dependencies, package managers such as pnpm and Yarn are considering an option to avoid installing freshly published packages. This could give enough time for security scanners to report vulnerabilities.

Hi everyone!

This week, we have a very diverse set of React news, but my eyes are on the React Native announcements made at React Universe Conf. Apparently, React Native 1.0 is on the horizon, and we have a bunch of related memes!

Hi everyone!

It seems that the React community is already back from vacation, as we have a whole series of interesting articles and releases. I also found interesting PRs and discussions to check out!

Nx user? Beware of the current critical supply chain attack.