Sébastien Lorber

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.

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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!

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!

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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Hi everyone!

No major React announcements this week, probably due to the US presidential election.

But we still had a bunch of exciting React and React Native and great community articles. I'm particularly excited about the React Compiler direction, and the release of React Navigation 7 with a new screen preloading API. Shopify's React Native endorsement is also great news for our ecosystem. Of course, I'm happy to unveil what I've been working on for months on Docusaurus too!

Don't forget to answer the State of React 2024 survey. It's closing next week, and we still have less answers than last year so far. If you have an audience, please help spread the word, and add a ?source=my_name parameter so that survey bias can be tracked.

Hi everyone!

This is another great React week.

Vercel has unveiled new super-interesting caching APIs for Next.js, and the React Native ecosystem is on fire!

On my side, I'm a bit tired of Twitter penalizing me for commenting external links. I'm giving Bluesky a try (@sebastienlorber.com). Come say hi if you are there.

Don't forget to fill in the State of React survey, and mention that you read the newsletter 😇.