Description

• Quick hits
  • Job market: FRED data, Layoffs.fyi, Trueup.io
  • Conferences (React, Javascript)
    • App.js Conf May 28-30 Kraków, Poland
    • CityJS Athens May 27-31 Athens, Greece
    • React Summit June 13-17 Amsterdam, NL
    • React Conf is back Oct 7-8
    • SquiggleConf 2025 CFP closes May 23
  • Sponsored by Infinite Red
  • New releases
  • Anime.js v4
  • RN v79
  • Next.js 15.3
    • Rspack joins the Next.js ecosystem
  • React Aria April 11th
  • Redux Toolkit 2.7
  • Vitest 3.1
• Main Content
  • React Labs: View Transitions, Activity, and more
  • React 19.1
    • “Owner Stack” is a very underrated React concept
      • “One React mistake that's slowing you down”
      • Advanced React Component Patterns
      • Parents & Owners in React: Rendering Performance
  • Improvements in Expo using owner stack
  • Dan Abramov is writing again (don’t 👏ruin 👏 his 👏 process)
    • React for Two Computers (Complement to his React Conf talk)
    • JSX Over The Wire
    • Impossible Components
• ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
  • Next.js RFC: Deployment Adapters API
    • flightcontrol.dev from last year: Secret knowledge to self-host Next.js
  • Styled-Components in maintenance mode
    • RIP Styled-Components. Now What?
  • Redwood announces new Cloudflare-based RSC SDK, existing framework in community maintenance mode
  • TC39 kills Records and Tuples proposal. Possible alternative is “Composites”
  • React Compiler RC
  • "Just use Vite”… with the Workers runtime (Vite on Cloudflare)
  • React Router / Remix CVE
  • Silk Library - native-like swipeables for the web
  • {transitions} = f(state)
  • Tailwind 4, Bun, and old Macs: A Supermarket Bag And a Truckload Of FOMO
  • Introducing Firebase Studio
  • Gumroad is open source!
  • Automattic laid off 16% of staff