#440 — August 20, 2025
☀️ We’re back after a week’s break, though I’m starting to think we should have taken two weeks off, as it has been quiet in React land. That means a tight and tidy issue for today – enjoy! :-)
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Peter Cooper, your editor
Together with
⚛️ React Status
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.
Lee Robinson
Next.js 15.5 Released — Next.js 15.5 includes Turbopack builds in beta, stable Node.js middleware, TypeScript improvements, next lint deprecation, and deprecation warnings in preparation for Next.js 16.
Gubler and Sandberg (Vercel)
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
▶ 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.
Shruti Kapoor
React Native 0.81 Released — React Native gains Android 16 support (say hello to mandatory edge to edge views) and targets it by default. v0.81 also introduces precompiled iOS builds for up to 10x faster builds.
Zilberman, Zaidman, et al.
💡 Related to the above, a two-week beta period for Expo SDK 54 has just begun, complete with React Native 0.81 and React 19.1.
📺 Three Amazing New TanStack Query Features Jack Herrington
📄 React Cache: It’s About Consistency – “I want to make the case for appreciating cache as more than just a memoization and optimization technique for network data fetching, but instead as an API that guarantees consistency across an entire RSC render.” Ryan Toronto
📄 Server and Client Component Composition in Practice Aurora Scharff
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries
🗓️ A Comparison of Six React Calendar Components for 2025 — Whether you need something that ‘just works’, something that can be heavily branded/themed, or you need the full Google Calendar style experience, Matt has some options for you.
Matt Abrams (Builder)
🤖 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. GitHub repo.
React ChatBotify Team
Secure Your AI Agents So That You Can Protect Your Users — Whether you have a B2B or B2C use case, Auth0 is a full IdP that provides robust security like MFA and continuous threat monitoring.
Auth0 sponsor
React Cosmos 7.0: Sandbox for Developing & Testing UI Components — A React-only tool for developing and testing UI components in isolation. It’s explained in more depth here.
Ovidiu Cherecheș et al.
React Native WebGPU — A React Native WebGPU implementation using Dawn. Currently a technical preview.
William Candillon
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Waku 0.25 – The minimal React framework introduces the concept of ‘slice components’ – a new approach to fine-grained component rendering.
-
✋ React Native Gesture Handler 2.28 – Exposes platform native touch APIs. Now with React Native 0.81 support.
-
🗓️ React Date Picker 8.6 – Simple date picker component. (Demo.)
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♟️ React Chessboard 5.5 – Render chess boards. (Examples.)
-
React Slick 0.31 – A React component port of Slick Carousel.
-
Enact 5.2 – App development framework built atop React.
📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript
A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:
-
Porffor is a novel ahead-of-time compiler for JavaScript that can compile both to WebAssembly and native binaries. It can now also be used to run JavaScript apps on AWS Lambda without long ‘cold start’ times.
-
TypeGPU is a new TypeScript library that enhances the WebGPU API, allowing resource management in a type-safe, declarative way. It can be used with React Native too, via react-native-webgpu.
-
📺 TC39’s Daniel Ehrenberg took part in ▶️ an informative 47-minute interview where he spoke about how the TC39 committee works and how you can have your say on the future of JavaScript.
-
pnpm 10.15 has been released.
Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon.
A Cooperpress publication.
#440 — August 20, 2025
☀️ We’re back after a week’s break, though I’m starting to think we should have taken two weeks off, as it has been quiet in React land. That means a tight and tidy issue for today – enjoy! :-)
__
Peter Cooper, your editor
Together with
⚛️ React Status
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.
Lee Robinson
Next.js 15.5 Released — Next.js 15.5 includes Turbopack builds in beta, stable Node.js middleware, TypeScript improvements, next lint deprecation, and deprecation warnings in preparation for Next.js 16.
Gubler and Sandberg (Vercel)
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
▶ 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.
Shruti Kapoor
React Native 0.81 Released — React Native gains Android 16 support (say hello to mandatory edge to edge views) and targets it by default. v0.81 also introduces precompiled iOS builds for up to 10x faster builds.
Zilberman, Zaidman, et al.
💡 Related to the above, a two-week beta period for Expo SDK 54 has just begun, complete with React Native 0.81 and React 19.1.
📺 Three Amazing New TanStack Query Features Jack Herrington
📄 React Cache: It’s About Consistency – “I want to make the case for appreciating cache as more than just a memoization and optimization technique for network data fetching, but instead as an API that guarantees consistency across an entire RSC render.” Ryan Toronto
📄 Server and Client Component Composition in Practice Aurora Scharff
🛠 Code, Tools & Libraries
🗓️ A Comparison of Six React Calendar Components for 2025 — Whether you need something that ‘just works’, something that can be heavily branded/themed, or you need the full Google Calendar style experience, Matt has some options for you.
Matt Abrams (Builder)
🤖 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. GitHub repo.
React ChatBotify Team
Secure Your AI Agents So That You Can Protect Your Users — Whether you have a B2B or B2C use case, Auth0 is a full IdP that provides robust security like MFA and continuous threat monitoring.
Auth0 sponsor
React Cosmos 7.0: Sandbox for Developing & Testing UI Components — A React-only tool for developing and testing UI components in isolation. It’s explained in more depth here.
Ovidiu Cherecheș et al.
React Native WebGPU — A React Native WebGPU implementation using Dawn. Currently a technical preview.
William Candillon
-
Waku 0.25 – The minimal React framework introduces the concept of ‘slice components’ – a new approach to fine-grained component rendering.
-
✋ React Native Gesture Handler 2.28 – Exposes platform native touch APIs. Now with React Native 0.81 support.
-
🗓️ React Date Picker 8.6 – Simple date picker component. (Demo.)
-
♟️ React Chessboard 5.5 – Render chess boards. (Examples.)
-
React Slick 0.31 – A React component port of Slick Carousel.
-
Enact 5.2 – App development framework built atop React.
📢 Elsewhere in JavaScript
A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader JavaScript landscape, in case you’ve missed them:
-
Porffor is a novel ahead-of-time compiler for JavaScript that can compile both to WebAssembly and native binaries. It can now also be used to run JavaScript apps on AWS Lambda without long ‘cold start’ times.
-
TypeGPU is a new TypeScript library that enhances the WebGPU API, allowing resource management in a type-safe, declarative way. It can be used with React Native too, via react-native-webgpu.
-
📺 TC39’s Daniel Ehrenberg took part in ▶️ an informative 47-minute interview where he spoke about how the TC39 committee works and how you can have your say on the future of JavaScript.
-
pnpm 10.15 has been released.
Curated by Peter Cooper and Terence C. Gannon.
A Cooperpress publication.
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