How to Test React Server Components - https://www.nico.fyi/blog/how-to-test-react-server-component

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SSR Deep Dive for React Developers

A comprehensive guide to SSR, hydration, and SSG in React. Covers the pros, cons, and costs of server-side rendering, with practical challenges to test your knowledge - https://www.developerway.com/posts/ssr-deep-dive-for-react-developers

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RFC: Deployment Adapters API

Big News: Vercel is making standalone Next.js deployments way easier with a new deployment adapters API. This will give other hosting platforms like Cloudflare, Netlify, or even your own server a consistent way to work with Next.js. Vercel will use the same interface for deployments on their infrastructure. It’s still in the RFC stage, but I’ll keep you posted as things evolve. - https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/77740

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How The New York Times Migrated from Enzyme to React Testing Library

A thorough look at the technical challenges and strategies the NYT used to perform a piecemeal upgrade of its React testing approach without disrupting either end users or other developers. - https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-systematically-migrated-from-enzyme-into-react-testing-library-b3ea538d001c

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React.memo Demystified: When It Helps and When It Hurts

Memoization in React can be tricky. This post explains how React.memo, useMemo, and useCallback work, when they’re useful, and when they’re just making things harder. - https://cekrem.github.io/posts/react-memo-when-it-helps-when-it-hurts/

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RIP Styled-Components. Now What?

Styled-components are officially in maintenance mode. React’s API changes and the rise of tools like Tailwind CSS and Vanilla Extract have made it obsolete. If you’re still holding on, this post has a list of alternatives to help you move on. - https://fadamakis.com/rip-styled-components-now-what-a8717df86e86

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Figma MCP vs Claude: A UI Building Battle

Jack has a basic app view built in Figma and wants to turn it into working React code. What works best? Taking a screenshot and getting Claude Code to attempt to implement it, or use Figma’s own MCP server to do the work? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGp5kTPWaqY

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Introducing Zustand for State Management

The ‘barebones’ state management solution Zustand is now mature, popular, and battle-tested, but if you’ve been waiting for a comprehensive introduction, this is for you. - https://frontendmasters.com/blog/introducing-zustand/

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React Router and React Server Components: The Path Forward

Find out what’s coming up for you if you’re a React Router user keen to work with React Server Components: “the implications are greater than you might expect.” - https://remix.run/blog/react-router-and-react-server-components

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TanStack DB: The Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query

TanStack DB is an embedded client‑side database that uses differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and seamless optimistic writes. This post does a good job of selling the idea, and the first beta version (v0.1) is available to experiment with now. - https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-db-0.1-the-embedded-client-database-for-tanstack-query

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The Useless useCallback

A look at why useCallback and useMemo can feel like pointless busywork, how just one non‑memoized prop can undo your entire caching strategy, and why new tools like useEffectEvent and React Compiler could put an end to the headaches. - https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-useless-use-callback

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How Parcel Bundles React Server Components

Parcel added React Server Components support a few months ago but here’s a deeper look at how this support actually works, what directives like "use client" actually do, etc. - https://devongovett.me/blog/parcel-rsc.html

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Remix 3 and the End of React-Centric Architectures - https://thenewstack.io/remix-3-and-the-end-of-react-centric-architectures/

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Instrumenting Next.js with Runtime Secret Injection - https://phase.dev/blog/instrumenting-nextjs-with-runtime-secret-injection/

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18 Advanced React Techniques Every Senior Dev Needs to Know

As React applications grow more complex, the patterns that were “just fine” when you were starting out might start to feel limiting. Maybe you’ve built a successful MVP, but now you’re noticing subtle performance issues. Or perhaps your state management has gotten tangled, and your data fetching logic has mushroomed into something unrecognisable. - https://readmedium.com/18-advanced-react-techniques-every-senior-dev-needs-to-know-13456ba2604c

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Unlocking Web Workers with React: A Step-by-Step Guide

Web Workers provide a way to run certain code in background threads, rather than blocking things on the main thread. This adds some complexity and isn’t always a best first step, but it’s worth knowing how it works. - https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/react-workers

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React Query Selectors, Supercharged

The latest in Dominik’s epic series of React Query articles. - https://tkdodo.eu/blog/react-query-selectors-supercharged

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How to Build An AI Assistant with LangGraph, Next.js, and Auth0 - https://auth0.com/blog/genai-tool-calling-build-agent-that-calls-calender-with-langgraph-nextjs/

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Reflections on the React Community

Lee, formerly of Vercel and widely recognized for his influence on Next.js and React, shares candid reflections on the React community, digging into the rise of React Server Components, the tension between commercial and non-commercial priorities, the toll of burnout, and a reminder that, above all, this is still a community of people. - https://leerob.com/reflections

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React Mock Interview: Three Devs Take on a Challenge

Three expert developers (Kent C Dodds, Piyush Agarwal, and Jack Herrington) all take on the same React development challenge to build a form complete with validation, much as if they were facing a job interview. If you’ve got the time to watch a 50 minute video, this is both fun and educational. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KkaaYl5rwA

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