#429 — May 14, 2025
🖊️ I’m going to Google I/O, so React Status is taking a break and will return on May 28. If you happen to be at I/O, say hi if you see an Englishman rambling on about newsletters!
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Your editor, Peter Cooper
Together with
React Status
tscircuit: Use React for Building Electronics Projects — An interesting approach to designing and laying out electronic circuit boards using a React-based approach. I bet Jordan Walke wouldn’t have predicted this when he created React! GitHub repo.
tscircuit Inc.
Master Modern React — Join Brian Holt for this extensive course and discover how to sharpen your production-ready skills and build high-performance apps — utilizing the latest React 19+ features such as server components, suspense, transitions, and more.
Frontend Masters sponsor
Static as a Server — If you’ve ever wondered how so-called ‘server’ components can ship as static assets, Dan does a good job at clearing the confusion and showing you how to prerender them at build time so you can serve everything from a CDN for free.
Dan Abramov
IN BRIEF:
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TanStack Query’s maintainer has unveiled an RFC to collapse several overlapping methods into just two:
query()andinfiniteQuery()to make it more intuitive when fetching data imperatively. -
🗣️ The folks over on the React sub-Reddit got to discussing whether the future of React in 2025 is still bright.
-
eslint-plugin-react-you-might-not-need-an-effect might be our favorite project name this month. It’s an ESLint plugin to catch unnecessary use of
useEffect. -
🤖 Vercel has introduced a one-click AI crawler/scraper filter for Vercel hosted apps.
▶ Building a Weather App with GitHub Copilot’s Agent Mode — While tools like Cursor and Windsurf might be getting most of the press, VS Code and GitHub Copilot’s new ‘agent mode’ make a very powerful combination. Microsoft’s Rob Lourens and GitHub’s Cassidy Williams share a brief (4 minute) look at what’s possible.
Visual Studio Code Team
Introducing Clerk Billing — Set up subscriptions in your B2B or B2C app without writing custom payment code or building your own UI.
Clerk sponsor
📄 No, React Context is Not Causing Too Many Renders – The author tries to counter a commonly held belief. David Johnston
📄 Concurrent Optimistic Updates in React Query Dominik Dorfmeister
📄 Dependency Inversion in React: Building Truly Testable Components Christian Ekrem
📄 Towards React Server Components in Clojure, Part 2 Roman Liutikov
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries
React Chrono 2.7: Dynamic, Interactive Timeline Component — Supports horizontal, vertical, and vertical alternating timelines, complete with keyboard accessibility, support for nested timelines, auto-playing timelines slideshow-style, and more. Good docs too. v2.7 improves its search and animation features.
Prabhu Murthy et al.
Bippy: A Toolkit for Hacking into React Internals — Bippy pretends to be React’s devtools to get access to various internals, without any code modifications needed. It’s used as part of Aiden’s higher-level React Scan tool.
Aiden Bai
Basecoat: shadcn/ui’s Magic, But Minus React — shadcn/ui is a popular suite of well designed React components, but if you’ve wanted to use them in other contexts too, Basecoat is for you. Basecoat ports the components to a more vanilla form you can use elsewhere.
Ronan Berder
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React Query Builder 8.7 – A query builder component. Now with Prisma, Sequelize, and Drizzle query format support.
-
React Native Tab View 4.1 – Cross-platform tab view component.
-
BlockNote 0.30 – ‘Notion-style’ block-based editor.
-
MUI X 8.3 – Popular React component suite.
📰 Classifieds
Meticulous automatically creates and maintains an E2E UI test suite with zero developer effort. Relied on by Dropbox, Wiz, Lattice, Bilt Rewards, etc.
Build a professional design system in less than a day, using Hope AI, new model by Bit.Cloud. Enjoy reusable UI components ready for import.
📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript
A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:
-
The V8 team introduces us to explicit resource management where you can use
usingandawait usingto provide functions that are automatically called when resources go out of scope. -
Parcel v2.15.0 has been released with a new transformer and minifier for HTML and SVG that also supports converting SVGs to JSX for use in React components.
-
Brian Clark shares some best practices for creating a modern npm package.
-
PptxGenJS is a JavaScript library for creating PowerPoint presentations from code.
-
Matt Smith reminds us of the power of the spread and rest syntax
... -
Piny is a new, commercial, visual editor targeting Astro, React, Next.js and Tailwind use cases.
Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon.
A Cooperpress publication.
#429 — May 14, 2025
🖊️ I’m going to Google I/O, so React Status is taking a break and will return on May 28. If you happen to be at I/O, say hi if you see an Englishman rambling on about newsletters!
__
Your editor, Peter Cooper
Together with
React Status
tscircuit: Use React for Building Electronics Projects — An interesting approach to designing and laying out electronic circuit boards using a React-based approach. I bet Jordan Walke wouldn’t have predicted this when he created React! GitHub repo.
tscircuit Inc.
Master Modern React — Join Brian Holt for this extensive course and discover how to sharpen your production-ready skills and build high-performance apps — utilizing the latest React 19+ features such as server components, suspense, transitions, and more.
Frontend Masters sponsor
Static as a Server — If you’ve ever wondered how so-called ‘server’ components can ship as static assets, Dan does a good job at clearing the confusion and showing you how to prerender them at build time so you can serve everything from a CDN for free.
Dan Abramov
IN BRIEF:
-
TanStack Query’s maintainer has unveiled an RFC to collapse several overlapping methods into just two:
query()andinfiniteQuery()to make it more intuitive when fetching data imperatively. -
🗣️ The folks over on the React sub-Reddit got to discussing whether the future of React in 2025 is still bright.
-
eslint-plugin-react-you-might-not-need-an-effect might be our favorite project name this month. It’s an ESLint plugin to catch unnecessary use of
useEffect. -
🤖 Vercel has introduced a one-click AI crawler/scraper filter for Vercel hosted apps.
▶ Building a Weather App with GitHub Copilot’s Agent Mode — While tools like Cursor and Windsurf might be getting most of the press, VS Code and GitHub Copilot’s new ‘agent mode’ make a very powerful combination. Microsoft’s Rob Lourens and GitHub’s Cassidy Williams share a brief (4 minute) look at what’s possible.
Visual Studio Code Team
Introducing Clerk Billing — Set up subscriptions in your B2B or B2C app without writing custom payment code or building your own UI.
Clerk sponsor
📄 No, React Context is Not Causing Too Many Renders – The author tries to counter a commonly held belief. David Johnston
📄 Concurrent Optimistic Updates in React Query Dominik Dorfmeister
📄 Dependency Inversion in React: Building Truly Testable Components Christian Ekrem
📄 Towards React Server Components in Clojure, Part 2 Roman Liutikov
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries
React Chrono 2.7: Dynamic, Interactive Timeline Component — Supports horizontal, vertical, and vertical alternating timelines, complete with keyboard accessibility, support for nested timelines, auto-playing timelines slideshow-style, and more. Good docs too. v2.7 improves its search and animation features.
Prabhu Murthy et al.
Bippy: A Toolkit for Hacking into React Internals — Bippy pretends to be React’s devtools to get access to various internals, without any code modifications needed. It’s used as part of Aiden’s higher-level React Scan tool.
Aiden Bai
Basecoat: shadcn/ui’s Magic, But Minus React — shadcn/ui is a popular suite of well designed React components, but if you’ve wanted to use them in other contexts too, Basecoat is for you. Basecoat ports the components to a more vanilla form you can use elsewhere.
Ronan Berder
-
React Query Builder 8.7 – A query builder component. Now with Prisma, Sequelize, and Drizzle query format support.
-
React Native Tab View 4.1 – Cross-platform tab view component.
-
BlockNote 0.30 – ‘Notion-style’ block-based editor.
-
MUI X 8.3 – Popular React component suite.
📰 Classifieds
Meticulous automatically creates and maintains an E2E UI test suite with zero developer effort. Relied on by Dropbox, Wiz, Lattice, Bilt Rewards, etc.
Build a professional design system in less than a day, using Hope AI, new model by Bit.Cloud. Enjoy reusable UI components ready for import.
📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript
A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:
-
The V8 team introduces us to explicit resource management where you can use
usingandawait usingto provide functions that are automatically called when resources go out of scope. -
Parcel v2.15.0 has been released with a new transformer and minifier for HTML and SVG that also supports converting SVGs to JSX for use in React components.
-
Brian Clark shares some best practices for creating a modern npm package.
-
PptxGenJS is a JavaScript library for creating PowerPoint presentations from code.
-
Matt Smith reminds us of the power of the spread and rest syntax
... -
Piny is a new, commercial, visual editor targeting Astro, React, Next.js and Tailwind use cases.
Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon.
A Cooperpress publication.
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