I've also put up an extensive blog post that goes into more detail on the same topics, including the history and influences of React's development, and discussions of the pain points and concerns I see in the community:

blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/reac...

Today I learned why this:

const value = useRef(null)
if (!value.current) {
value.current = init()
}

_can_ be better than:

const [value] = useState(init)

Hint: StrictMode is involved 😜

Guess it’s time to update my blogpost / write a new one.

Fresh React news here:

thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/221

In case you missed it 😘

Meet Smelter – our new toolkit for programmatic video composition! 🚀

With Smelter you can:
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💨 Hey CodePush users!

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This video is remarkable. @rileybrown.bsky.social shows you how to build a mobile app without writing a single line of code.

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This Week In React 219

⚛️
- CRA deprecated
- Next.js experimental flags
- Remix
- Tremor dashboards
- SaaS Starter
- Local-First
- JSDom
- 2n8
📱
- Windows/MacOS
- Debugging
- Shopify
- Polygen
- Reanimated
- Audio API
- SwiftUI
- BottomTabs

Read online / subscrb:
thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/219

This Week In React 215

Read/subscribe online:
thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/215

⚛️
- Dropdown
- i18n
- Next.js
- Remix
- Astro
- shadcn
- StyleX
- Fancy Comps

📱
- Static Hermes
- Expo
- Skia
- ExecuTorch
- Kotlin

This Week In React 213

Read/subscribe online:
thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/213

⚛️
- React 19
- Next.js
- React Compiler
- React Router
- Restyle
- Lingui
📱
- State of RN
- Uniffi
- Shared Objects
- Fast IO
- Sheet Transitions
- Radon

tip for React/RN library authors: if you’re creating a library that messes with refs or native handles, *please*, verify that it’s able to handle conditional rendering and refs changing over time! conditional rendering is a fundamental React feature. i don’t know how this wasn’t caught for years

🪲 In the "State of React Native" survey each year "debugging" has been the biggest pain point.

That's why @swmansion.com built Radon.

Set a reminder on youtube for the livestream next Tuesday to watch @kzzzf.bsky.social live demo the power of Radon 1.0: youtube.com/live/UeYmRKW...

React 19
Stable

react.dev/blog/2024/12...

This Week In React 211

Read/sub: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/211

⚛️
- React Router
- TanStack
- Next.js
- moveBefore
- RSC
- Vite
- cb refs
- React Aria
- Ariakit
- Meteor
- Rslib
📱
- 0.77 RC
- Screens
- Legend List
- Rapier Wasm
- Testing Library
- BottomTabs
- Cali
- Nitro
- Solito

react native 0.77 RC

Let's go

github.com/facebook/rea...

🥳 Launch Party day 5: New "secret" sauce - EAS environment variables

Today we are introducing the ability to securely store all environment variables in EAS and keep them in sync between EAS Build, EAS Update, & wherever else you need them.

Read the blog post for details: expo.dev/blog/environ...

This Week In React 210

Read online & subscribe:
thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/210

⚛️
- React 19 RC1
- Next.js
- TanStack
- React IDE?
- MistCSS
- React Scan
- PayloadCMS
- React + TS

📱
- Expo Workflows
- Universal RSC
- use dom
- Yoga JSI
- Skia
- Turbo Haptics
- TV cookbook
- FastIO

X in rn docs

where is #bsky?

reactnative.dev/showcase