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August 12, 2026Episode 71 hr 10 min

TMIR July 2026: React-alikes, GOVERNANCE, and state management

Transcript and links 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React July 2026 (01:27) - New releases (01:29) - Vite+ Beta (02:41) - TypeScript 7.0 released (03:56) - Open PR for “content mappers” to typecheck templates other than JSX (04:57) - Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools (05:18) - OXC type-aware linting stable (06:00) - NPM v12 and new security defaults (07:00) - Dependabot supports a configurable delay (07:37) - More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x (08:06) - Main Content (08:07) - React org updates (08:22) - “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page (11:11) - Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council (14:37) - Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally (15:39) - Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX (17:16) - Poimandres published a charter (20:20) - For instance, WebGL text rendering (21:30) - React-alikes (21:40) - Octane from Dominic Gannaway (28:27) - Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency" (29:12) - “Do people think FE innovation is dead? (30:31) - Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3 (32:22) - "no benchmark […] has captured the relationship between reactivity and rendering" (35:04) - ReactBench to measure AI code quality from Aidan Bai (36:37) - Alex Russell thinks everyone is screwing up state management (47:41) - Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works (48:22) - And a post on RSC performance patterns (48:41) - TanStack removed RSCs from the website (51:04) - Mark is experimenting with perf improvements for RTK v3 (57:36) - Making referential stability a type (59:17) - Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha (59:39) - Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle (01:00:17) - Marker (01:02:04) - Goodbye, forever, probably. (01:08:41) - Conferences (01:08:53) - Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland (01:09:14) - Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain

July 2, 2026Episode 654 min

TMiR 2026-06: React Compiler is getting rusty, what does AI mean for engineering culture

Transcript and URLs ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React: June News Roundup (00:11) - Intros (02:24) - [React Router 8](https://remix.run/blog/react-router-v8) (05:29) - [Babel 8](https://babeljs.io/blog/2026/06/16/8.0.0/) (07:05) - [Astro 7](https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/) (09:03) - [TS 7.0 RC](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/) (09:31) - ESM only, no programmatic API right now (10:31) - [Nub JS](https://nubjs.com/), from Zod creator (14:03) - [Legend List 3.0 with DOM support](https://x.com/jmeistrich/status/2059922504320225316) (14:34) - [TSRX revamped the syntax](https://tsrx.dev/blog/rethinking-tsrx) (16:18) - React Core news (16:22) - [React Compiler in Rust is rolling out](https://bsky.app/profile/sebastienlorber.com/post/3moibsmtqjk2x) (16:47) - [PR was merged after testing at Meta and improved](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173#issuecomment-4608356402) (17:24) - [Oxlint, SWC, RSPack, Next all integrating](https://bsky.app/profile/sebastienlorber.com/post/3moibsmtqjk2x%20) (17:40) - [Rolldown tried integrating directly but removed due to binary size increase](https://x.com/evanyou/status/2069593612153987373) (18:08) - [Bun tried optimizing the Rust Compiler code](https://gist.github.com/Jarred-Sumner/84df369c35216f40d61d1ea9f95771c2) (18:47) - Other core improvements (19:07) - [Fragment Refs have been documented](https://react.dev/reference/react/Fragment#fragmentinstance) in canary (21:31) - React DevTools MCP tools, including [component tree](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36597) and [perf analysis](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36598) APIs (22:18) - React Foundation progress (22:29) - There’s a(n early) [react.foundation](https://react.foundation/) website, advertising funding for maintainers and community groups (25:30) - They’re gonna have a booth at [Chain React at the end of July](https://chainreactconf.com/) (26:01) - [Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering) (32:36) - [AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less](https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline) (40:41) - Christoph Nakazawa posted his [“Modern Engineering Values” and how he uses AI](https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values) (42:31) - [Cloudflare bought VoidZero](https://voidzero.dev/posts/voidzero-cloudflare) (43:34) - NPM / security updates (43:38) - [Github Actions allows enforcing pinned action SHAs](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-15-github-actions-policy-now-supports-blocking-and-sha-pinning-actions/) (44:11) - [GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst](https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html) (45:17) - [NPM 12 will disable install scripts and Git deps by default](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/) (46:15) - Code optimization still matters! (46:43) - [TanStack Table cut memory in v9 by 90% on large lists by optimizing JS objects](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-memory-performance) and [optimized TS perf](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-typescript-performance) (47:15) - [Pierre Diffs was significantly optimized](https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs) - has to handle virtualization, syntax highlighting, source loading (48:27) - [CompileCat is a new optimizing compiler to improve JS execution after bundling](https://github.com/isaac-mason/compilecat), similar to Closure Compiler. ([the RSPack team says they’re working on something similar](https://x.com/jiahan_c/status/2065630866668453898) ) (51:12) - [Mark’s React-Redux /+ signals draft perf PR](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2318) and [updated React-Redux benchmarks repo](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux-benchmarks) (52:41) - [Aurora Scharff’s preferred RSC component architecture](https://aurorascharff.no/posts/component-architecture-for-react-server-components/) (53:24) - [Lovable projects now use TanStack Start by default](https://lovable.dev/blog/building-apps-using-tanstack-start)

June 6, 2026Episode 51 hr 9 min

TMiR 2026-05: Who even is on the Core team anymore, TanStack got pwn'd bad

Transcript and URLs ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - Interview (00:55) - Some podcast meta (01:49) - New Releases (01:51) - [TS v7 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-beta/) (05:15) - [Rolldown 1.0](https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-rolldown-1-0) (06:51) - [Fate 1.0](https://fate.technology/posts/fate-1.0) (09:48) - Main Content (09:56) - React Core (10:09) - React team status after Meta layoffs? (14:59) - [React Compiler port to Rust still in progress](https://x.com/poteto/status/2056865079543681329), latest [PR](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/36173) (15:54) - [Tanner Linsley is "projecting" React](https://tannerlinsley.com/posts/projecting-react) (it's definitely not a fork) (21:38) - [Tests are the new moat](https://saewitz.com/tests-are-the-new-moat) (23:32) - [Brooks Lybrand thoughts on React + community after React Miami](https://brookslybrand.com/posts/react-miami-2026.html) (25:04) - [TanStack is exploring how to expose Server Components](https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components) (27:19) - [Who Owns the Tree](https://tanstack.com/blog/who-owns-the-tree) (27:31) - [RSCs in TanStack](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/react-server-components-in-tanstack/) (28:12) - [Remix v3 beta preview](https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview) (28:35) - Both Remix and TanStack are exploring "what if no React"? (36:11) - [TSRX](https://tsrx.dev/), a variant on JSX (41:52) - Security! Everything is compromised (42:04) - [TanStack Router compromised](https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem), and [Socket analysis](https://socket.dev/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised-mini-shai-hulud-supply-chain-attack) (46:58) - [TanStack followup with followup hardening](https://tanstack.com/blog/incident-followup) (47:10) - [Nx monorepo tool compromised](https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem) as a result (52:02) - React2Shell recaps from [Lachlan Davidson](https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/) and [Sylvie](https://sylvie.fyi/posts/react2shell/) (52:25) - [Next 16.2.5 and more React CVEs](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.2.5) (53:19) - [NPM adds “staged packages”](https://docs.npmjs.com/staged-publishing) and [E18E adds guidance](https://e18e.dev/docs/publishing.html#staged-packages) (54:50) - [PNPM 11 defaults to min release age](https://socket.dev/blog/pnpm-11-adds-new-supply-chain-protection-defaults), NPM 12 will [block by default](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/868) (57:59) - [Review your GH Actions, people!](https://github.com/e18e/ecosystem-issues/issues/266) (59:13) - Mark posted his big AI blog posts. [Part 1: Fears and Journey](https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-1-fears-opinions-journey/) (01:08:39) - Outro

May 7, 2026Episode 41 hr 4 min

Mark & Carl talk with Swizec Teller about using AI at work

Transcript ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React April (00:26) - Introductions (02:36) - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using? (04:24) - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations (06:59) - Watching AI use a command-line (08:16) - Background chat agents (08:58) - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools (11:00) - Driving AI closely without reading its code (17:50) - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API (20:39) - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus (23:58) - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators (25:23) - Exploring fully autonomous agents (28:08) - Mark's AI debugging work in React core (31:42) - Value of providing more context (33:58) - AI-owned documentation (37:09) - Using good engineering practices still matters? (40:47) - How do you know the right code to make? (42:49) - Good communication still matters (45:13) - What will "review" look like in the future? (46:17) - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices (51:49) - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent? (56:17) - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering? (01:03:22) - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code

March 3, 2026Episode 21 hr 5 min

TMiR 2026-02: CloudFlare remakes Next with AI; Vercel big mad. We talk too much about AI Agents

Transcript and links (00:00) - This Month in React February 2026 (01:46) - New releases (01:50) - [TS 6.0 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-beta/)/! (last TS impl release; stricter defaults) (02:34) - [Yarn 6 preview](https://yarn6.netlify.app/blog/2026-01-28-yarn-6-preview/) (rewritten in Rust) (02:52) - [Electrobun](https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/) (Tauri alternative) (03:31) - [React Native Gesture Handler v3](https://blog.swmansion.com/introducing-gesture-handler-3-0-hook-based-api-deeper-reanimated-integration-more-9185b0c8e305) (04:20) - [Next polyfills improved WebStreams and upstreaming to Node](https://vercel.com/blog/we-ralph-wiggumed-webstreams-to-make-them-10x-faster) (05:25) - [Webpack 2026 roadmap](https://webpack.js.org/blog/2026-04-02-roadmap-2026/) (05:53) - [Lodash maintenance roadmap](https://socket.dev/blog/inside-lodash-security-reset) (07:07) - [Gatsby React 19 support](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/release-notes/v5.16/) , [styled-components RSC support](https://styled-components.com/releases#styled-components@6.3.0) (07:54) - [npmx.dev](https://npmx.dev/) (alternate NPM site UI) (08:43) - [eslint-plugin-react-render-types](https://github.com/HorusGoul/eslint-plugin-react-render-types) (typed children) (09:54) - Main Content (09:55) - React Core updates: (09:56) - [React Foundation officially launched](https://react.dev/blog/2026/02/24/the-react-foundation) (12:28) - Docs updates: [/`useActionState/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8284) (merged), [/`use/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8305) and [RSC sandboxes](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8300) (wip) (14:23) - [React Native 0.84 released](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2026/02/11/react-native-0.84) (17:47) - [Hermes WASM support](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2023821160241393839) , [Hermes Node compat CLI](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2024609186936660170) (18:43) - “State of…” survey results (18:43) - [State of JS 2025 results](https://2025.stateofjs.com/en-US) (19:06) - [State of React 2025 results](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US) (19:51) - [Aurora Scharff’s conclusion](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/conclusion/) (20:44) - [Josh Comeau’s takes on the results](https://bsky.app/profile/joshwcomeau.com/post/3mf642css6227) (21:28) - [API pain points](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/features/#main_apis_pain_points) (21:53) - [State of React Native 2025](https://results.2025.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/) (24:29) - [How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week](https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/) (29:52) - CloudFlare v Vercel beef (35:42) - Carl Vitullo monologs about AI Agents (42:27) - AI productivity and impacts on our attention (44:42) - ["wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and went home"](https://x.com/rvivek/status/2026385957596111044) (47:26) - [Bits AI SRE | Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/product/ai/bits-ai-sre/) (51:04) - [ThoughtWorks opines on AI productivity impacts](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/14/thoughtworks/) (01:00:28) - ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ (01:00:37) - [“Wall Street Raider” game modernization](https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html) (and uses Preact) (01:01:16) - [Github Stacked Diffs preview](https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2019817235163074881) , [faster Issues search](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-29-improved-search-for-github-issues-in-public-preview/) (01:02:08) - [Josh Comeau: Sprite animations](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/) (01:02:26) - [Interop 2026](https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026), ([WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/17818/announcing-interop-2026/), [Igalia](https://www.igalia.com/news/interop-2026.html)) (01:03:38) - Conferences ([React](https://react.dev/community/conferences), [Javascript](https://confs.tech/javascript)) Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast ★

February 5, 2026Episode 11 hr 5 min

TMiR 2026-01: Oops more CVEs. AI has React "skills", Astro exits and Tailwind struggles

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December 31, 2025Episode 121 hr 39 min

TMiR 2025-12: Year in review, React2Shell (RCE, DOS, SCE, oh my)

Full transcript at Reactiflux Main Content React2Shell vulnerability Initial announcement Followup denial-of-service CVE and source code exposure CVE Vercel bulletin Cloudflare Cloudflare report on exploit attempts Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 Tech analysis: “Flight Protocol” Vuln is carefully crafted Promise deserialization + `new Function` eval PRs: Initial fixes , Promise cycles / function toString , more Promise cycles Guillermo’s breakdown Shruti’s breakdown Comms critique “React is rainbow colored (function types)” What does this mean for React and RSC adoption going forward? When I go back and look at react.dev now \[…\] it feels half-finished React Native year in review More CSS support Expo EAS hosting RN 0.78: React 19 support Lynx launched RN 0.79: JSC moving to Community Package RN 0.80: Freezing the legacy architecture RN 0.81: Android 16 support for edge to edge 1.0 on the horizon Vega OS launched RN 0.82: Only new architecture Expo App Awards RN 0.83: New Devtools - no breaking changes React year in review CRA deprecation , new install docs (Vite\!) Styled Components Deprecated Releases: 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent), Compiler 1.0 Research: View Transitions canary, perf, concurrent stores , “throw a promise” deprecated (but not merged yet) “ Async React ” and the ecosystem React Foundation React growth skyrockets React Router RSC support , TanStack Start WIP RSC , Waku Dan’s RSC explainers (he had a bunch of things to say) Remix v3 Jam recap (not React but relevant) Mark went from frustrated ( CRA ) to excited (ReactConf, foundation, team efforts) ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ TS 7 progress update NPM classic tokens revoked GitHub Actions planned work Github Action pricing change and immediate about-face Stacked diffs proposal in the works ? Anthropic bought Bun SVG Clickjacking from Lyra (SVG filters as logic gates??) Dan Abramov’s RSC Explorer: https://rscexplorer.dev/ , https://overreacted.io/introducing-rsc-explorer/ Instant-loading Github repo explorer using RSCs: Without the blue bar React Router’s Take on RSCs How AI Coding Agents hid a Timebomb in Our App ( https://acusti.ca/blog/2025/12/16/react-compiler-silent-failures-and-how-to-fix-them/ ) Great history of web dev: 30 Years of <br> Tags Nadia Makarevich’s latest deep dive: Bundle Size Investigation Extensive ES2026 feature preview React reconciler for Blender 3D The “why” of React Fiber Async React articles from Aurora Scharff and Jack Herrington ★ Support this podcast ★

November 30, 2025Episode 111 hr 2 min

TMiR 2025-11: Cloudflare outage, ongoing npm hacks, React Router is getting RSCs

Transcript and show notes TMiR on Bluesky [00:13] Intro [01:00] New releases [01:04] BetterAuth 1.4 [02:47] Immer 11 , RTK 2.11 [06:00] Storybook 10 [06:22] 0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package [08:04] Main content [08:08] Ecosystem panel discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY [14:46] React Concurrent Stores: Polyfill , React-Redux POC [17:52] React Router and transition usage [18:08] Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router [22:53] The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS [25:57] TanStack DB 0.5 [31:01] Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation [32:25] State of the web ecosystem [33:13] Cloudflare November outage postmortem [36:10] "What if people don't want to create things" [39:39] “When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?” [45:53] Related, “Dead Framework Theory” from last month [48:12] Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets [51:48] Npm attack, Shai-Hulud round 2 [52:06] Analysis of its evolution in code from Sept [55:23] Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain from September [55:29] NPM update on token management changes [55:34] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ [55:38] TS 6.0 hopefully Feb 2026, 7.0 (native) soon after (more details in the TypeScript.fm podcast) [56:03] Latest TC39 proposal updates [56:32] Chrome (and other browsers) wants to remove XSLT from the web platform [57:14] “Your URL is Your State” , and David K’s “Goodbye, useState” talk [57:46] Aiden Bai’s “React Grab” util [58:39] Creating a custom Node module loader to import from Bittorrent [59:22] Ryan Carniato’s stream on researching “async signals” [59:33] Details of building Node’s TS type stripping support [59:58] The Web Animation Performance Tier List [01:00:14] Conferences ( React , Javascript ) [01:00:22] CFPs [01:01:01] React Paris ( Also a community survey ) [01:01:12] JSWorld CFP closes Dec 31, notifies by Feb 1 [01:01:18] Ending (00:00) - This Month in React - November Episode (SM) (00:13) - Intro (01:00) - New releases (01:04) - [BetterAuth 1.4](https://www.better-auth.com/blog/1-4) (02:47) - [Immer 11](https://github.com/immerjs/immer/releases/tag/v11.0.0), [RTK 2.11](https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.11.0) (06:00) - [Storybook 10](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-10/) (06:22) - [0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package](https://github.com/remix-run/remix/tree/main/packages/interaction) (08:04) - Main content (08:08) - [Ecosystem panel](https://gitnation.com/contents/panel-discussion-the-future-of-react-and-its-ecosystem) discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY (14:46) - React Concurrent Stores: [Polyfill](https://github.com/thejustinwalsh/react-concurrent-store), [React-Redux POC](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2263) (17:52) - React Router and transition usage (18:08) - [Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router](https://github.com/reactwg/async-react/discussions/5) (22:53) - [The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-2-years) (25:57) - [TanStack DB 0.5](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-db-0.5-query-driven-sync) (31:01) - [Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation](https://x.com/tannerlinsley/status/1983999424486633931) (32:25) - State of the web ecosystem (33:13) - [Cloudflare November outage postmortem](https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/) (36:10) - ["What if people don't want to create things"](https://macwright.com/2025/10/21/what-if-they-dont-want-to.html) (39:39) - [“When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?”](https://webtechnology.news/when-everyones-a-developer-how-do-we-promote-the-web-platform-over-react/) (45:53) - Related, [“Dead Framework Theory”](https://aifoc.us/dead-framework-theory/) from last month (48:12) - [Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets](https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/) (51:48) - Npm attack, [Shai-Hulud round 2](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-hitting-zapier-ensdomains) (52:06) - [Analysis of its evolution in code](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/bugs-in-shai-hulud-debugging-the-desert) from Sept (55:23) - [Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain](https://github.blog/...

October 31, 2025Episode 101 hr 13 min

TMiR 2025-10: Post-conf; React 19.2, React Foundation, React Native removing old architecture. Next.js has too many directives

Transcript and article links [ 00:00:00 ] Intro [ 00:00:46 ] New releases [ 00:00:49 ] Immer 10.2 [ 00:01:55 ] ArkType ArkRegex (typed regex) [ 00:02:41 ] Main Content [ 00:02:45 ] React Conf [ 00:02:50 ] Official ReactConf 2025 Recap [ 00:02:57 ] Introducing the React Foundation (also from Linux Foundation , Meta engineering , and Seth Webster ) [ 00:17:03 ] 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent) [ 00:17:27 ] React Native news [ 00:17:32 ] New architecture only from v0.82 [ 00:18:52 ] Vega OS announcement [ 00:19:04 ] Vega introduction at React Conf [ 00:22:36 ] Joe Savona’s “ Exploring React Performance ” talk [ 00:23:26 ] Ricky’s “ Async React Part I ” and “ Part II ” ( repo ) [ 00:27:12 ] Async React Working Group [ 00:27:35 ] First discussion of more docs ideas [ 00:28:27 ] Remix v3 announcement [ 00:29:03 ] Announcement demo timestamped breakdown [ 00:31:28 ] Updates syntax can be customized? [ 00:34:44 ] I built the same app 10 times ( code ) [ 00:37:57 ] Same author as React Won by Default and It’s Killing Innovation [ 00:43:33 ] Solito 5 [ 00:46:49 ] Next 16 and Directives debate [ 00:46:56 ] Next 16 released [ 00:49:41 ] Directives and the Platform Boundary [ 00:50:34 ] Technical critique of Next App Router: Everyone Hates Next.js [ 00:54:56 ] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ [ 00:54:58 ] ViteConf roundup [ 00:55:49 ] AWS Outage Postmortem [ 00:57:10 ] Voltra [ 00:58:10 ] Building fully native apps with EAS [ 00:58:52 ] React Native \<\> Imgui [ 00:59:53 ] Lodash maintenance foundation [ 01:00:45 ] Build Your Own Key-Value Database [ 01:02:24 ] Jared Palmer asking for GH PR suggestions and giving some technical details [ 01:03:54 ] Node 25 with JSON.stringify improvements [ 01:04:15 ]

October 1, 2025Episode 91 hr 2 min

TMiR 2025-09: React 19.2 on the horizon; npm is still getting compromised

[00:52] New releases [00:54] TanStack Start 1.0 RC! [01:13] react-window 2.0 rewrite [01:44] Apollo Client 4.0 [01:59] Redux Toolkit 2.9.0 [02:47] Main Content [02:52] React 19.2 coming soon? [03:24] in canary, with docs [07:18] last React Labs post mention [11:43] useEffectEvent in canary and has docs [15:47] Compiler inferring function names [16:08] Docs for eslint-plugin-react-hooks , including rules and compiler issues [17:15] React Native 1.0 on the horizon [22:02] “React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation” [22:18] Inevitable HN argument [27:54] Ricky on Ryan Carniato’s stream talking about scheduling and demoing using modern React features [33:41] Server Components [33:44] React Router RSC framework mode preview [34:36] also middleware is now stable [34:44] Krasimir Tsonev’s “Can I Use RSC Today?” support matrix and experimental Forket “RSC without a framework” build tool [35:43] RSBuild support for RSCs [35:55] Useful post on parallel and recursive route rendering [36:35] All the NPM compromises and malware this month [39:47] npm package maintainer Qix [39:48] CrowdStrike npm Packages [40:16] GitHub Actions npm Token Theft [41:01] GitHub response [42:00] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ [42:03] Porting Modern TypeScript to Run on DOS [42:35] Cloudflare DDOSed themselves with a bad useEffect fetch [43:11] A very lovely writeup of the evolution of css zoom [43:56] What You Need to Know about Modern CSS [45:21] Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/download progress [45:40] Why do browsers throttle JS timers? [46:01] “How Modern Browsers Work” deep dive, Addy Osmani [46:32] Biome: Stress-testing WIP noFloatingPromises lint rule [48:37] Bun: How bun install is so fast [49:23] Styled-Components fork for perf and React 19 compat [50:02] Vite SSR: Custom getStaticProps [50:11] Dominic Gannaway’s new framework Ripple [50:35] Remix v3: MJ hints “iframe-like async primitives” [51:57] React Native RFC to remove Old Architecture [52:28] Cloudflare’s new “Cap’n Web” RPC; GraphQL alternative? [55:26] Expo UI: Building SwiftUI apps [55:57] TanStack DB: An interactive guide [56:21] TS 6.0: may switch to strict options by default [57:28] Shopify’s RN New Architecture migration [57:42] The Bloat of Edge-Case First Libraries [58:51] Conferences ( React , Javascript ) [58:53] React Alicante Oct 2-4 [59:13] React Conf is back, Oct 7-8 Las Vegas, NV, USA [59:29] Remix Jam , Oct 10, Toronto ON, CA [59:43] ViteConf Oct 9-10 Amsterdam, Netherlands [59:52] JSConf North America Oct 14-16 Chesapeake Bay, MD, USA [01:00:03] JSConf Chile Oct 24-25 Santiago, Chile [01:00:10] React Native London Oct 30-31 [01:00:22] React India Oct 31 Nov 1 Goa, India [01:00:26] Wey Wey Web Nov 17-18 Malaga, Spain [01:00:39] React Summit Nov 18-21 New York, NY, USA [01:00:48] React Advanced Nov 28th, London UK (00:00) - This Month In React - September 2025 (SM) (00:52) - New releases (00:54) - [TanStack Start 1.0 RC!](https://tanstack.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-start-v1) (01:13) - [`react-window` 2.0 rewrite](https://react-window.vercel.app/) (01:44) - [Apollo Client 4.0](https://www.apollographql.com/blog/announcing-apollo-client-4-0) (01:59) - [Redux Toolkit 2.9.0](https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.9.0) (02:47) - Main Content (02:52) - [React 19.2 coming soon?](https://bsky.app/profile/ricky.fm/post/3lzt6yvs6o22r) (03:24) - ...