This Month in React

Reactiflux; with Mark Erikson, Mo Khazali, and Carl Vitullo

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 Mark Erikson (Redux maintainer), Carl Vitullo (startup veteran), and Mo Khazali (head of mobile at Theodo). See something for us? Post to #tech-reads-and-news

  1. 17h ago

    TMIR July 2026: React-alikes, GOVERNANCE, and state management

    Transcript and links 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React July 2026 (01:27) - New releases (01:29) - Vite+ Beta (02:41) - TypeScript 7.0 released (03:56) - Open PR for “content mappers” to typecheck templates other than JSX (04:57) - Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools (05:18) - OXC type-aware linting stable (06:00) - NPM v12 and new security defaults (07:00) - Dependabot supports a configurable delay (07:37) - More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x (08:06) - Main Content (08:07) - React org updates (08:22) - “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page (11:11) - Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council (14:37) - Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally (15:39) - Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX (17:16) - Poimandres published a charter (20:20) - For instance, WebGL text rendering (21:30) - React-alikes (21:40) - Octane from Dominic Gannaway (28:27) - Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency" (29:12) - “Do people think FE innovation is dead? (30:31) - Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3 (32:22) - "no benchmark […] has captured the relationship between reactivity and rendering" (35:04) - ReactBench to measure AI code quality from Aidan Bai (36:37) - Alex Russell thinks everyone is screwing up state management (47:41) - Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works (48:22) - And a post on RSC performance patterns (48:41) - TanStack removed RSCs from the website (51:04) - Mark is experimenting with perf improvements for RTK v3 (57:36) - Making referential stability a type (59:17) - Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha (59:39) - Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle (01:00:17) - Marker (01:02:04) - Goodbye, forever, probably. (01:08:41) - Conferences (01:08:53) - Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland (01:09:14) - Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain

  2. Jul 2

    TMiR 2026-06: React Compiler is getting rusty, what does AI mean for engineering culture

    Transcript and URLs ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React: June News Roundup (00:11) - Intros (02:24) - [React Router 8](https://remix.run/blog/react-router-v8) (05:29) - [Babel 8](https://babeljs.io/blog/2026/06/16/8.0.0/) (07:05) - [Astro 7](https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/) (09:03) - [TS 7.0 RC](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-rc/) (09:31) - ESM only, no programmatic API right now (10:31) - [Nub JS](https://nubjs.com/), from Zod creator (14:03) - [Legend List 3.0 with DOM support](https://x.com/jmeistrich/status/2059922504320225316) (14:34) - [TSRX revamped the syntax](https://tsrx.dev/blog/rethinking-tsrx) (16:18) - React Core news (16:22) - [React Compiler in Rust is rolling out](https://bsky.app/profile/sebastienlorber.com/post/3moibsmtqjk2x) (16:47) - [PR was merged after testing at Meta and improved](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173#issuecomment-4608356402) (17:24) - [Oxlint, SWC, RSPack, Next all integrating](https://bsky.app/profile/sebastienlorber.com/post/3moibsmtqjk2x%20) (17:40) - [Rolldown tried integrating directly but removed due to binary size increase](https://x.com/evanyou/status/2069593612153987373) (18:08) - [Bun tried optimizing the Rust Compiler code](https://gist.github.com/Jarred-Sumner/84df369c35216f40d61d1ea9f95771c2) (18:47) - Other core improvements (19:07) - [Fragment Refs have been documented](https://react.dev/reference/react/Fragment#fragmentinstance) in canary (21:31) - React DevTools MCP tools, including [component tree](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36597) and [perf analysis](https://github.com/react/react/pull/36598) APIs (22:18) - React Foundation progress (22:29) - There’s a(n early) [react.foundation](https://react.foundation/) website, advertising funding for maintainers and community groups (25:30) - They’re gonna have a booth at [Chain React at the end of July](https://chainreactconf.com/) (26:01) - [Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering) (32:36) - [AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less](https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline) (40:41) - Christoph Nakazawa posted his [“Modern Engineering Values” and how he uses AI](https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values) (42:31) - [Cloudflare bought VoidZero](https://voidzero.dev/posts/voidzero-cloudflare) (43:34) - NPM / security updates (43:38) - [Github Actions allows enforcing pinned action SHAs](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-15-github-actions-policy-now-supports-blocking-and-sha-pinning-actions/) (44:11) - [GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst](https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html) (45:17) - [NPM 12 will disable install scripts and Git deps by default](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/) (46:15) - Code optimization still matters! (46:43) - [TanStack Table cut memory in v9 by 90% on large lists by optimizing JS objects](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-memory-performance) and [optimized TS perf](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-table-v9-typescript-performance) (47:15) - [Pierre Diffs was significantly optimized](https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs) - has to handle virtualization, syntax highlighting, source loading (48:27) - [CompileCat is a new optimizing compiler to improve JS execution after bundling](https://github.com/isaac-mason/compilecat), similar to Closure Compiler. ([the RSPack team says they’re working on something similar](https://x.com/jiahan_c/status/2065630866668453898) ) (51:12) - [Mark’s React-Redux /+ signals draft perf PR](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2318) and [updated React-Redux benchmarks repo](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux-benchmarks) (52:41) - [Aurora Scharff’s preferred RSC component architecture](https://aurorascharff.no/posts/component-architecture-for-react-server-components/) (53:24) - [Lovable projects now use TanStack Start by default](https://lovable.dev/blog/building-apps-using-tanstack-start)

  3. Jun 6

    TMiR 2026-05: Who even is on the Core team anymore, TanStack got pwn'd bad

    Transcript and URLs ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - Interview (00:55) - Some podcast meta (01:49) - New Releases (01:51) - [TS v7 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-7-0-beta/) (05:15) - [Rolldown 1.0](https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-rolldown-1-0) (06:51) - [Fate 1.0](https://fate.technology/posts/fate-1.0) (09:48) - Main Content (09:56) - React Core (10:09) - React team status after Meta layoffs? (14:59) - [React Compiler port to Rust still in progress](https://x.com/poteto/status/2056865079543681329), latest [PR](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/36173) (15:54) - [Tanner Linsley is "projecting" React](https://tannerlinsley.com/posts/projecting-react) (it's definitely not a fork) (21:38) - [Tests are the new moat](https://saewitz.com/tests-are-the-new-moat) (23:32) - [Brooks Lybrand thoughts on React + community after React Miami](https://brookslybrand.com/posts/react-miami-2026.html) (25:04) - [TanStack is exploring how to expose Server Components](https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components) (27:19) - [Who Owns the Tree](https://tanstack.com/blog/who-owns-the-tree) (27:31) - [RSCs in TanStack](https://frontendmasters.com/blog/react-server-components-in-tanstack/) (28:12) - [Remix v3 beta preview](https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview) (28:35) - Both Remix and TanStack are exploring "what if no React"? (36:11) - [TSRX](https://tsrx.dev/), a variant on JSX (41:52) - Security! Everything is compromised (42:04) - [TanStack Router compromised](https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem), and [Socket analysis](https://socket.dev/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised-mini-shai-hulud-supply-chain-attack) (46:58) - [TanStack followup with followup hardening](https://tanstack.com/blog/incident-followup) (47:10) - [Nx monorepo tool compromised](https://nx.dev/blog/nx-console-v18-95-0-postmortem) as a result (52:02) - React2Shell recaps from [Lachlan Davidson](https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/) and [Sylvie](https://sylvie.fyi/posts/react2shell/) (52:25) - [Next 16.2.5 and more React CVEs](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v16.2.5) (53:19) - [NPM adds “staged packages”](https://docs.npmjs.com/staged-publishing) and [E18E adds guidance](https://e18e.dev/docs/publishing.html#staged-packages) (54:50) - [PNPM 11 defaults to min release age](https://socket.dev/blog/pnpm-11-adds-new-supply-chain-protection-defaults), NPM 12 will [block by default](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/868) (57:59) - [Review your GH Actions, people!](https://github.com/e18e/ecosystem-issues/issues/266) (59:13) - Mark posted his big AI blog posts. [Part 1: Fears and Journey](https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-1-fears-opinions-journey/) (01:08:39) - Outro

  4. May 7

    Mark & Carl talk with Swizec Teller about using AI at work

    Transcript ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React April (00:26) - Introductions (02:36) - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using? (04:24) - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations (06:59) - Watching AI use a command-line (08:16) - Background chat agents (08:58) - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools (11:00) - Driving AI closely without reading its code (17:50) - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API (20:39) - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus (23:58) - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators (25:23) - Exploring fully autonomous agents (28:08) - Mark's AI debugging work in React core (31:42) - Value of providing more context (33:58) - AI-owned documentation (37:09) - Using good engineering practices still matters? (40:47) - How do you know the right code to make? (42:49) - Good communication still matters (45:13) - What will "review" look like in the future? (46:17) - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices (51:49) - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent? (56:17) - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering? (01:03:22) - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code

  5. Mar 3

    TMiR 2026-02: CloudFlare remakes Next with AI; Vercel big mad. We talk too much about AI Agents

    Transcript and links (00:00) - This Month in React February 2026 (01:46) - New releases (01:50) - [TS 6.0 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-beta/)/! (last TS impl release; stricter defaults) (02:34) - [Yarn 6 preview](https://yarn6.netlify.app/blog/2026-01-28-yarn-6-preview/) (rewritten in Rust) (02:52) - [Electrobun](https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/) (Tauri alternative) (03:31) - [React Native Gesture Handler v3](https://blog.swmansion.com/introducing-gesture-handler-3-0-hook-based-api-deeper-reanimated-integration-more-9185b0c8e305) (04:20) - [Next polyfills improved WebStreams and upstreaming to Node](https://vercel.com/blog/we-ralph-wiggumed-webstreams-to-make-them-10x-faster) (05:25) - [Webpack 2026 roadmap](https://webpack.js.org/blog/2026-04-02-roadmap-2026/) (05:53) - [Lodash maintenance roadmap](https://socket.dev/blog/inside-lodash-security-reset) (07:07) - [Gatsby React 19 support](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/release-notes/v5.16/) , [styled-components RSC support](https://styled-components.com/releases#styled-components@6.3.0) (07:54) - [npmx.dev](https://npmx.dev/) (alternate NPM site UI) (08:43) - [eslint-plugin-react-render-types](https://github.com/HorusGoul/eslint-plugin-react-render-types) (typed children) (09:54) - Main Content (09:55) - React Core updates: (09:56) - [React Foundation officially launched](https://react.dev/blog/2026/02/24/the-react-foundation) (12:28) - Docs updates: [/`useActionState/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8284) (merged), [/`use/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8305) and [RSC sandboxes](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8300) (wip) (14:23) - [React Native 0.84 released](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2026/02/11/react-native-0.84) (17:47) - [Hermes WASM support](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2023821160241393839) , [Hermes Node compat CLI](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2024609186936660170) (18:43) - “State of…” survey results (18:43) - [State of JS 2025 results](https://2025.stateofjs.com/en-US) (19:06) - [State of React 2025 results](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US) (19:51) - [Aurora Scharff’s conclusion](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/conclusion/) (20:44) - [Josh Comeau’s takes on the results](https://bsky.app/profile/joshwcomeau.com/post/3mf642css6227) (21:28) - [API pain points](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/features/#main_apis_pain_points) (21:53) - [State of React Native 2025](https://results.2025.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/) (24:29) - [How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week](https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/) (29:52) - CloudFlare v Vercel beef (35:42) - Carl Vitullo monologs about AI Agents (42:27) - AI productivity and impacts on our attention (44:42) - ["wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and went home"](https://x.com/rvivek/status/2026385957596111044) (47:26) - [Bits AI SRE | Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/product/ai/bits-ai-sre/) (51:04) - [ThoughtWorks opines on AI productivity impacts](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/14/thoughtworks/) (01:00:28) - ⚡ Lightning round ⚡ (01:00:37) - [“Wall Street Raider” game modernization](https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html) (and uses Preact) (01:01:16) - [Github Stacked Diffs preview](https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2019817235163074881) , [faster Issues search](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-29-improved-search-for-github-issues-in-public-preview/) (01:02:08) - [Josh Comeau: Sprite animations](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/) (01:02:26) - [Interop 2026](https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026), ([WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/17818/announcing-interop-2026/), [Igalia](https://www.igalia.com/news/interop-2026.html)) (01:03:38) - Conferences ([React](https://react.dev/community/conferences), [Javascript](https://confs.tech/javascript)) Reply on Bluesky ★ Support this podcast ★

  6. Feb 5

    TMiR 2026-01: Oops more CVEs. AI has React "skills", Astro exits and Tailwind struggles

    Full transcript and links ★ Support this podcast ★

  7. 12/31/2025

    TMiR 2025-12: Year in review, React2Shell (RCE, DOS, SCE, oh my)

    Full transcript at Reactiflux Main Content React2Shell vulnerabilityInitial announcementFollowup denial-of-service CVE and source code exposure CVEVercel bulletinCloudflareCloudflare report on exploit attemptsCloudflare outage on December 5, 2025Tech analysis: “Flight Protocol”Vuln is carefully crafted Promise deserialization + `new Function` evalPRs: Initial fixes, Promise cycles / function toString, more Promise cyclesGuillermo’s breakdownShruti’s breakdownComms critique“React is rainbow colored (function types)”What does this mean for React and RSC adoption going forward?When I go back and look at react.dev now \[…\] it feels half-finishedReact Native year in reviewMore CSS supportExpo EAS hostingRN 0.78: React 19 supportLynx launchedRN 0.79: JSC moving to Community PackageRN 0.80: Freezing the legacy architectureRN 0.81: Android 16 support for edge to edge1.0 on the horizonVega OS launchedRN 0.82: Only new architectureExpo App AwardsRN 0.83: New Devtools - no breaking changesReact year in reviewCRA deprecation, new install docs (Vite\!)Styled Components DeprecatedReleases: 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent), Compiler 1.0Research: View Transitions canary, perf, concurrent stores, “throw a promise” deprecated (but not merged yet)“Async React” and the ecosystemReact FoundationReact growth skyrocketsReact Router RSC support, TanStack Start WIP RSC, WakuDan’s RSC explainers (he had a bunch of things to say)Remix v3 Jam recap (not React but relevant)Mark went from frustrated (CRA) to excited (ReactConf, foundation, team efforts)⚡ Lightning round ⚡ TS 7 progress updateNPM classic tokens revokedGitHub Actions planned workGithub Action pricing change and immediate about-faceStacked diffs proposal in the works?Anthropic bought BunSVG Clickjacking from Lyra (SVG filters as logic gates??)Dan Abramov’s RSC Explorer: https://rscexplorer.dev/ , https://overreacted.io/introducing-rsc-explorer/Instant-loading Github repo explorer using RSCs: Without the blue barReact Router’s Take on RSCsHow AI Coding Agents hid a Timebomb in Our App(https://acusti.ca/blog/2025/12/16/react-compiler-silent-failures-and-how-to-fix-them/)Great history of web dev: 30 Years of TagsNadia Makarevich’s latest deep dive: Bundle Size InvestigationExtensive ES2026 feature previewReact reconciler for Blender 3DThe “why” of React FiberAsync React articles from Aurora Scharff and Jack Herrington ★ Support this podcast ★

  8. 11/30/2025

    TMiR 2025-11: Cloudflare outage, ongoing npm hacks, React Router is getting RSCs

    Transcript and show notes TMiR on Bluesky [00:13] Intro[01:00] New releases[01:04] BetterAuth 1.4[02:47] Immer 11, RTK 2.11[06:00] Storybook 10[06:22] 0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package[08:04] Main content[08:08] Ecosystem panel discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY[14:46] React Concurrent Stores: Polyfill, React-Redux POC[17:52] React Router and transition usage[18:08] Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router[22:53] The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS[25:57] TanStack DB 0.5[31:01] Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation[32:25] State of the web ecosystem[33:13] Cloudflare November outage postmortem[36:10] "What if people don't want to create things"[39:39] “When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?”[45:53] Related, “Dead Framework Theory” from last month[48:12] Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets[51:48] Npm attack, Shai-Hulud round 2[52:06] Analysis of its evolution in code from Sept[55:23] Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain from September[55:29] NPM update on token management changes[55:34] ⚡ Lightning round ⚡[55:38] TS 6.0 hopefully Feb 2026, 7.0 (native) soon after (more details in the TypeScript.fm podcast)[56:03] Latest TC39 proposal updates[56:32] Chrome (and other browsers) wants to remove XSLT from the web platform[57:14] “Your URL is Your State”, and David K’s “Goodbye, useState” talk[57:46] Aiden Bai’s “React Grab” util[58:39] Creating a custom Node module loader to import from Bittorrent[59:22] Ryan Carniato’s stream on researching “async signals”[59:33] Details of building Node’s TS type stripping support[59:58] The Web Animation Performance Tier List[01:00:14] Conferences (React, Javascript)[01:00:22] CFPs[01:01:01] React Paris (Also a community survey)[01:01:12] JSWorld CFP closes Dec 31, notifies by Feb 1[01:01:18] Ending (00:00) - This Month in React - November Episode (SM) (00:13) - Intro (01:00) - New releases (01:04) - [BetterAuth 1.4](https://www.better-auth.com/blog/1-4) (02:47) - [Immer 11](https://github.com/immerjs/immer/releases/tag/v11.0.0), [RTK 2.11](https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.11.0) (06:00) - [Storybook 10](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-10/) (06:22) - [0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package](https://github.com/remix-run/remix/tree/main/packages/interaction) (08:04) - Main content (08:08) - [Ecosystem panel](https://gitnation.com/contents/panel-discussion-the-future-of-react-and-its-ecosystem) discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY (14:46) - React Concurrent Stores: [Polyfill](https://github.com/thejustinwalsh/react-concurrent-store), [React-Redux POC](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2263) (17:52) - React Router and transition usage (18:08) - [Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router](https://github.com/reactwg/async-react/discussions/5) (22:53) - [The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-2-years) (25:57) - [TanStack DB 0.5](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-db-0.5-query-driven-sync) (31:01) - [Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation](https://x.com/tannerlinsley/status/1983999424486633931) (32:25) - State of the web ecosystem (33:13) - [Cloudflare November outage postmortem](https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/) (36:10) - ["What if people don't want to create things"](https://macwright.com/2025/10/21/what-if-they-dont-want-to.html) (39:39) - [“When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?”](https://webtechnology.news/when-everyones-a-developer-how-do-we-promote-the-web-platform-over-react/) (45:53) - Related, [“Dead Framework Theory”](https://aifoc.us/dead-framework-theory/) from last month (48:12) - [Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets](https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/) (51:48) - Npm attack, [Shai-Hulud round 2](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-hitting-zapier-ensdomains) (52:06) - [Analysis of its evolution in code](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/bugs-in-shai-hulud-debugging-the-desert) from Sept (55:23) - [Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain](https://github.blog/...

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