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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Server and Client Component Composition in Practice - https://aurorascharff.no/posts/server-client-component-composition-in-practice/

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React ChatBotify: React Library for Building Chatbot Systems

A platform and library for building modern chatbot tools for the Web. Supports React 16-19. It also has its own Discord community with a few hundred developers. - https://github.com/react-chatbotify/react-chatbotify

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Can We Use Local Storage Instead of Context/Redux/Zustand?

Sometimes the built-in localStorage browser API can be just enough. Nadia figures out when it makes sense and when it doesn’t. - https://www.developerway.com/posts/local-storage-instead-of-context

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Streamdown: A Drop-In react-markdown Replacement That Supports Streaming

react-markdown is great for rendering Markdown, but if you have to handle live-streaming content (such as in AI contexts), Vercel’s new project could offer the power you need - https://streamdown.ai/

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A 'Go to Source' Feature for TanStack Devtools

The original title ‘I blow your mind with TanStack Devtools in under 10 minutes’ might be a little intense, but 5 minutes in, Alem does show off a genuinely neat ‘go to source’ feature that works across any JSX flavor. Click on whatever component you want in the devtools and go straight to the code behind it. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-X501kgpg

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React’s useTransition and State Update Reordering  - https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/react-rebasing/

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Optimizing PWAs for Different Display Modes - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/optimizing-pwas-different-display-modes/

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React Server Components Support Without a Framework?

If you don’t want to use Next.js (or even the minimal Waku framework) but you want to play with React Server Components, this is for you. Krasimir built a tool to split code across the client/server divide so you can run RSCs without a framework. - https://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/vanilla-react-server-components-with-no-framework

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react-window 2.0: Render Large Lists of Data Quickly

A component library for rendering large lists of data quickly and without the performance problems that often go along with that. There are several examples to check out, and React 18 is now required.  - https://react-window.vercel.app/

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Using Activity with Suspenseful Data

Components hidden by React 19’s Activity will maintain their state while also unmounting their effects and continue to preload suspenseful data – here’s what makes that useful. - https://www.simeongriggs.dev/use-the-activity-boundary-to-hide-suspenseful-components

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A Guide to Styling React Components

A comparison of a few different approaches including styled components, CSS Modules, and Tailwind. - https://www.telerik.com/blogs/ultimate-guide-styling-react-components

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Deriving Client State from Server State - https://tkdodo.eu/blog/deriving-client-state-from-server-state

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react-json-view-lite: Render JSON as a Tree

A lightweight component for visualizing JSON in a way that retains its basic formatting and JSON-ness but that lets you collapse or expand arrays and objects and see the structure more easily. - https://github.com/AnyRoad/react-json-view-lite

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An Interactive Guide to TanStack DB

TanStack DB is the latest project from the popular TanStack collection and offers an embedded client‑side database that uses differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and optimistic writes. But what does that mean in real life? Maxi spent a week playing with it to see what makes it tick and where it enhances the TanStack Query experience. - https://frontendatscale.com/blog/tanstack-db/

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The Talks from React Universe Conf 2025

React Universe Conf 2025 took place last week in Poland and there were some great talks including Meta’s Jorge Cohen talking about React Native releases in 2025, Christoph Nakazawa on building scalable applications, and Aurora Scharff digging into modern React development patterns. - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3MwD-soTTGHD999pxTX1r_6JORpOr0C

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Cloudflare Dashboard Outage Rooted in a useEffect Mistake

The bug wasn’t caused by anything React-specific, but it’s uncommon to hear of the misuse of a React feature cascading into a service being overwhelmed with unnecessary requests resulting in an outage. A good reminder that these things can happen to anyone. - https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-sept-12-dashboard-and-api-outage/

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React Server Components Support Across Frameworks

A comparison of support for aspects of the main RSC related functionality in Next.js, Vite, Waku, Forket, Parcel, React Router, and RedwoodSDK, along with the code used to test each one - https://rsc.krasimirtsonev.com/

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'React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation'

An opinionated React thought-piece that’s provoked much discussion this week by poking at the downsides and inertia caused by ‘the React-by-default mindset.’ And we thought people said React was moving too quickly..? - https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-won-by-default

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TanStack Start v1 Release Candidate

First appearing on our radar a year ago, TanStack’s attempt at a full-stack TanStack Router-powered framework has reached a v1.0 release candidate that’s expected to be largely the same as its eventual 1.0 release. We’ll let it sell itself: “it’s the next chapter in building type-safe, high-performance React apps without the heavy abstractions.” - https://tanstack.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-start-v1

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