#434 — July 2, 2025
Together with
React Status
React Still Feels.. Foolish, and No One is Talking About It? — We wouldn’t normally feature such a provocative piece, but the React blogosphere has been very slow this week and the discussions around this article have been substantial enough (on both Reddit and Hacker News) that we’re giving it a chance. Mario illuminates some pain points around complexity in modern, rich SPA apps and how the flexibility of libraries like React can quickly lead to a convoluted mess if you’re not careful. Ultimately, though, this is not a problem exclusive to React!
Mario Brizic
😅 Now, can we please get a flood of positive articles in the other direction to feature?
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IN BRIEF:
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🧊 Reactylon is a Babylon.js-powered 3D / extended-reality framework for React we featured recently – it now has a showcase page showing off some use cases.
-
🇬🇧 React Advanced London is a React event taking place both online and in-person in London this November.
-
🤖 Anthropic has added a feature to build and share AI-powered apps directly from Claude which can have React-powered UIs.
-
The spec for ECMAScript 2025 has been approved by Ecma International and Pawel Grzybek shares some of the new language features here – hopefully coming to a JavaScript implementation near you soon..
Vercel Ship 2025 Recap — Vercel’s annual conference was taking place live as we sent React Status last week. We linked to the livestream, but now you can catch up with all the announcements in one place, including updates on their AI SDK, Fluid compute options, Vercel Sandbox, Rolling Releases feature, bot detection, and more.
Vercel
📄 No Time To Learn (Web) Framework X – How can you judge when it’s worth the time to learn something new? Wouter Groeneveld
📄 Using useOptimistic to Make Your App Feel Instant Kent C. Dodds
📄 A Study Guide to Data Fetching in React React Practice
📄 Automating Frontend Accessibility with Storybook 9 Dominic Nguyen
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries
🗓️ Time Picker: A shadcn/ui-Based Date/Time Picker Component — Simple, elegant, and feels good to use.
OpenStatus
Tuono: The React/Rust Full-Stack Framework — If you like React and Next.js but have a reason to prefer building your backend in Rust, this is for you. Tuono enables the full React server side experience in Next.js-style but atop Rust instead.
Valerio Ageno et al.
Product for Engineers Newsletter — Build better products, not just better code. Learn how to build features users love. Subscribe for free.
PostHog sponsor
react-xtermjs: Xterm.js for React — If you want to add a Xterm.js-powered terminal-style experience to your React app. Further explained in this blog post. GPL licensed.
Rémi Bonnet
-
UI Builder 2.0 – Add a Figma-style visual component to your apps to let users compose pages, emails, dashboards, and similar things no-code style.
-
AG Charts v12.0 – Broad-featured charting library with support for multiple frameworks.
-
Yet Another React Lightbox 3.24 – Modern React lightbox component
-
Schedule-X 2.35 – Material Design event calendar and date picker.
-
Ink 6.0.1 – Use React to build CLI apps.
✂︎ Deep cuts from the queue
As it’s a quieter week than usual, we’ve gone back to look through our ever-growing queue of items which haven’t yet made it into the newsletter for one reason or another. Here are some of the things that jumped out:
-
Did you know Vercel created its own font for developers (above)? It’s called Geist, it’s open licensed, and has several weights, 600+ glyphs, supports 32 languages, and has a monospaced variant too. GitHub repo.
-
📉 Josh Justice goes into depth with creating advanced line graphs in React using MUI X Charts.
-
Neobrutalism is a visually striking suite of shadcn/ui-based components with a direct, clean style.
-
How to Style a React Application walks through some thoughts on styling and why the author thinks a Tailwind-based approach beats a more classical, semantics-led one.
-
Deploying a Next.js App with Kamal 2 – Kamal is a container-based deployment tool that sprung from the Ruby world.
-
How to Create a ‘Gooey’ Search Interaction with Framer Motion
📰 Classifieds
📌 Deploy with PinMe: Host Your Front-End Without Servers. No sign-up. No cost.
⚛️ Join React Summit US to learn under the stars! Meet Addy Osmani, Amy Dutton, Tanner Linsley & more Nov 18 & 21 in NYC & online.
😎 Did You Know..?
As much as we enjoy making this newsletter, we also publish a handful of others you might not know about. You can see the latest issues of them all directly on their homepages:
💎 Ruby Weekly was our first ever newsletter, and it’s still going strong 756 issues later! Unsurprisingly it’s for Ruby and Rails enthusiasts.
💛 JavaScript Weekly covers all things JavaScript, but also the broader ecosystem, including TypeScript, WebAssembly, build tools, and AI development.
⚛️ Just round the corner from JS is Node Weekly which goes deeper into Node.js, the npm ecosystem, and other server-side JS runtimes like Deno and Bun.
👩💻 Frontend Focus covers everything that appears browser-side. CSS, HTML, accessibility, WebGPU, browser updates – it’s all in there.
🐘 Last, but not least, Go Weekly and Postgres Weekly round out the family and you probably don’t need too much of a clue to guess what they’re respectively about ;-)
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Peter Cooper, your editor
Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon.
A Cooperpress publication.
#434 — July 2, 2025
Together with
React Status
React Still Feels.. Foolish, and No One is Talking About It? — We wouldn’t normally feature such a provocative piece, but the React blogosphere has been very slow this week and the discussions around this article have been substantial enough (on both Reddit and Hacker News) that we’re giving it a chance. Mario illuminates some pain points around complexity in modern, rich SPA apps and how the flexibility of libraries like React can quickly lead to a convoluted mess if you’re not careful. Ultimately, though, this is not a problem exclusive to React!
Mario Brizic
😅 Now, can we please get a flood of positive articles in the other direction to feature?
CodeRabbit’s Free AI Code Reviews in IDE - VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf — Code Rabbit brings AI code reviews to VS Code, Cursor & Windsurf. Get line-by-line reviews, one-click fixes & codebase-aware feedback - all free in your IDE. Seamlessly integrates with git workflows. Install the extension & start reviewing!
CodeRabbit sponsor
IN BRIEF:
-
🧊 Reactylon is a Babylon.js-powered 3D / extended-reality framework for React we featured recently – it now has a showcase page showing off some use cases.
-
🇬🇧 React Advanced London is a React event taking place both online and in-person in London this November.
-
🤖 Anthropic has added a feature to build and share AI-powered apps directly from Claude which can have React-powered UIs.
-
The spec for ECMAScript 2025 has been approved by Ecma International and Pawel Grzybek shares some of the new language features here – hopefully coming to a JavaScript implementation near you soon..
Vercel Ship 2025 Recap — Vercel’s annual conference was taking place live as we sent React Status last week. We linked to the livestream, but now you can catch up with all the announcements in one place, including updates on their AI SDK, Fluid compute options, Vercel Sandbox, Rolling Releases feature, bot detection, and more.
Vercel
📄 No Time To Learn (Web) Framework X – How can you judge when it’s worth the time to learn something new? Wouter Groeneveld
📄 Using useOptimistic to Make Your App Feel Instant Kent C. Dodds
📄 A Study Guide to Data Fetching in React React Practice
📄 Automating Frontend Accessibility with Storybook 9 Dominic Nguyen
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries
🗓️ Time Picker: A shadcn/ui-Based Date/Time Picker Component — Simple, elegant, and feels good to use.
OpenStatus
Tuono: The React/Rust Full-Stack Framework — If you like React and Next.js but have a reason to prefer building your backend in Rust, this is for you. Tuono enables the full React server side experience in Next.js-style but atop Rust instead.
Valerio Ageno et al.
Product for Engineers Newsletter — Build better products, not just better code. Learn how to build features users love. Subscribe for free.
PostHog sponsor
react-xtermjs: Xterm.js for React — If you want to add a Xterm.js-powered terminal-style experience to your React app. Further explained in this blog post. GPL licensed.
Rémi Bonnet
-
UI Builder 2.0 – Add a Figma-style visual component to your apps to let users compose pages, emails, dashboards, and similar things no-code style.
-
AG Charts v12.0 – Broad-featured charting library with support for multiple frameworks.
-
Yet Another React Lightbox 3.24 – Modern React lightbox component
-
Schedule-X 2.35 – Material Design event calendar and date picker.
-
Ink 6.0.1 – Use React to build CLI apps.
✂︎ Deep cuts from the queue
As it’s a quieter week than usual, we’ve gone back to look through our ever-growing queue of items which haven’t yet made it into the newsletter for one reason or another. Here are some of the things that jumped out:
-
Did you know Vercel created its own font for developers (above)? It’s called Geist, it’s open licensed, and has several weights, 600+ glyphs, supports 32 languages, and has a monospaced variant too. GitHub repo.
-
📉 Josh Justice goes into depth with creating advanced line graphs in React using MUI X Charts.
-
Neobrutalism is a visually striking suite of shadcn/ui-based components with a direct, clean style.
-
How to Style a React Application walks through some thoughts on styling and why the author thinks a Tailwind-based approach beats a more classical, semantics-led one.
-
Deploying a Next.js App with Kamal 2 – Kamal is a container-based deployment tool that sprung from the Ruby world.
-
How to Create a ‘Gooey’ Search Interaction with Framer Motion
📰 Classifieds
📌 Deploy with PinMe: Host Your Front-End Without Servers. No sign-up. No cost.
⚛️ Join React Summit US to learn under the stars! Meet Addy Osmani, Amy Dutton, Tanner Linsley & more Nov 18 & 21 in NYC & online.
😎 Did You Know..?
As much as we enjoy making this newsletter, we also publish a handful of others you might not know about. You can see the latest issues of them all directly on their homepages:
💎 Ruby Weekly was our first ever newsletter, and it’s still going strong 756 issues later! Unsurprisingly it’s for Ruby and Rails enthusiasts.
💛 JavaScript Weekly covers all things JavaScript, but also the broader ecosystem, including TypeScript, WebAssembly, build tools, and AI development.
⚛️ Just round the corner from JS is Node Weekly which goes deeper into Node.js, the npm ecosystem, and other server-side JS runtimes like Deno and Bun.
👩💻 Frontend Focus covers everything that appears browser-side. CSS, HTML, accessibility, WebGPU, browser updates – it’s all in there.
🐘 Last, but not least, Go Weekly and Postgres Weekly round out the family and you probably don’t need too much of a clue to guess what they’re respectively about ;-)
__
Peter Cooper, your editor
Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon.
A Cooperpress publication.
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