This Week In React #199: shadcn, Next.js, Remix, RN-WebGPU, React-Three-Fiber, Re.Pack, Super Apps, RN-macOS, EAS...

Hi everyone!

Cyril and Matthieu from Theodo Apps (formerly BAM) here 👋, standing in for Seb to bring you the latest news from the React and React Native worlds.

This week, shadcn has released a new CLI, and we've noticed other nice things that are currently cooking, like support for the use() hook in React Query.

The React Universe Conf starts tomorrow, we're expecting React Native announcements that we will discuss next week!

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⚛️ React

Shadcn introduces a new CLI

It’s significantly more powerful and flexible:

shadcn add can now install components, themes, hooks, utils, dependencies…
It supports for multiple React frameworks (Next.js, Remix, Vite, Laravel)
It can update your tailwind config instead of overriding it
Components can be imported directly from urls

More details in 🐦 this twitter thread.

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👀 TanStack Query PR - Add support for React.use(): React Query plans to return a promise that you can use(), making it easier to integrate with Suspense in a performant way. It’s more convenient than usePrefetchQuery and more parallel than useSuspenseQuery.
👀 Remix Route Convention Evolution: The new routes.ts we evoked last week will allow you to skip filesystem-based routing, or simplify using the convention of your choice.
🐦 Next.js 15 may be released soon without waiting for React 19 to be stable, and without requiring React 19 for the pages router. It will include major Turbopack improvements.
🐦 Render on Fetch vs Fetch on Render: Theo shares a graphical visualization of different React rendering patterns. An associated video is available to deep dive.
📜 Introducing @svg-use: Greatly explains how SVG-in-JS (notably SVGR in React) is convenient for theming and distribution, but is not ideal in terms of performance and duplication. The <use href> pattern is a good alternative but requires manual plumbing, so the author created a toolchain to automate it.
📜 Build-time Components: Greatly illustrated article explains the benefits of React Server Components for MDX users looking to make their content interactive. Client components and build-time Remark/Rehype plugins have limitations, and RSCs offer the best of both.
📜 Using Server Functions and TanStack Query: TanStack Start is almost ready to use, and has a compelling data fetching approach, with “server fns” integrated with react-query and routing (for prefetching), fully typesafe of course.
📜 What the heck is atomic state management?: A refresher on how to use Jotai “the right way” and the benefits it brings.
📜 Component testing in Storybook: Storybook promotes component testing as a complement to end-to-end testing, offering speed and reliability with browser fidelity for better UI test coverage.
📜 The Complete Developer Guide to React 19: A 2-part series on what’s coming in React 19, including useTransition, useActionState, useOptimistic, use, Server Components, Server Actions, ref as a prop, Diffs for Hydration Errors, Improved error reporting, Context as a provider, useDeferredValue initial value & more.
📜 Easy RAG for TypeScript and React Apps: Build a RAG system in TypeScript and React by processing text documents, generating embeddings, and utilizing a vector database for semantic search to answer user queries.
📜 Blending Markdown and React components in NextJS
📜 Higher Order Components (HOCs) in React: What They Are and How To Use Them
📜 Comprehensive React Testing: Handling API Calls with Mock Service Worker
📜 Using the inert attribute in React
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📦 Midday V1 - Starter kit based on Next.js, Turborepo, Shadcn & more
📦 Bulletproof-React - scalable React architecture repo - now updated with Next.js examples
📦 Astro 4.15 - Astro Actions, Use rewrites for i18n fallbacks, libSQL remotes in @astrojs/db, Timeout option in client:idle, Swap helpers for ViewTransitions
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📱 React-Native

At the time we’re writing this, the React Native Core Contributor Summit is happening in Wrocław.

It will be followed by the React Universe conf on Thursday and Friday. A lot of exciting talks are planned, and you can follow along on Youtube. Some highlights: A new debugger, The New Architecture, Expo DOM Components, Static Hermes.

So we will probably have more React Native news for you next week!