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TMiR 2025-07: Vercel shakeups, new React Compiler docs

Released Friday, 1st August 2025

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TMiR 2025-07: Vercel shakeups, new React Compiler docs

Friday, 1st August 2025

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New Releases
- RN Reanimated v4
- RN Ignite toolkit v11
Main Content
- Compiler docs are merged! (live docs, and config API)
  - Expo docs say it’s “on hold”, but Evan Bacon says Expo 54 may enable the Compiler by default
  - Oh no — more function directives , “use memo” and “use no memo”
  - DIRECTIVES
  - Good thread on some history
  - Some tech discussion on the complexities of making React Compiler work with Oxlint
  - Directive prologues and JavaScript dark matter
- Node API Support for React Native
- Vercel shaking things up
- Ryan Carniato’s “react and signals”
- React Native Unistyles 3.0 Released
- React Router and RSCs: The Path Forward
- Parcel writeup for Server Components
- WIP Vite RSC plugin support
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
- Corbin’s “History of React Through Code” deep dive
- TkDodo’s thoughts on when useCallback is useless
- eslint-config-prettier compromised as part of an NPM supply chain attack
- Expo Router demo by Evan Bacon AI + RSCs + Expo Router
- Some tech details on how Meta serves React pages
- Nitro Image library for React Native
- A very hacky way to test RSC components
- A good technical dive into improving INP in a Next app
- Extra CSS Properties in React Native
- Chrome 137 adds if support in CSS
- React Devtools for Firefox may not get updated due to review restrictions
- Both oxlint and biome are investigating typed lint rule support (Biome v2, tsgolint)
- Remix v3 dev branch containing support packages
- React Native Wallet
- Deno v Oracle update
- “Content independence day” from Cloudflare (they’re blocking AI crawlers)
- Some updated Static Hermes perf numbers release available “soon”, being tested internally at Meta
- State of HTML Survey is open
Conferences (React, Javascript)
- Big Sky Dev Con Aug 2 Bozeman, MT, USA
- Kansas City Developer Conference Aug 13-14 Kansas City, KS, USA
- React Universe Conf Sept 2-4, 2025. Wrocław, Poland
- WaysConf Sept 16-17
- CascadiaJS Sept 18-19 Seattle, WA, USA
- Squiggle Conf Sept 17-18 Boston, MA, USA
- React Conf is back, Oct 7-8
- Remix Jam Oct 10 Toronto, Canada

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How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in React's development and ecosystem, upcoming conferences, and open source releases. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recordings on the last Wednesday of every month in the Reactiflux stage.Hosted by friends and veterans of the community, Mark Erikson and Carl Vitullo. They've been driving forces in the Reactiflux Discord since 2015. Mark brings his many years maintaining Redux, and Carl his experience at a half-dozen startups.

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