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Published on 25.02.2026
TLDR: React, React Native, and JSX are no longer owned by Meta. The React Foundation has officially launched under the Linux Foundation with eight platinum founding members including Amazon, Microsoft, Vercel, and Meta itself.
Link: The React Foundation: A New Home for React
TLDR: One Cloudflare engineer directed AI to build vinext, a drop-in Next.js replacement built on Vite, in under a week for about $1,100 in tokens. It builds up to 4.4x faster and produces bundles 57% smaller than Next.js 16.
Link: How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
TLDR: Daniel Saewitz argues that in the AI era, comprehensive test suites and well-documented APIs, once hallmarks of quality open source, now make it trivially easy for competitors to clone your work. Tests have become the new competitive moat.
Link: Tests Are The New Moat
TLDR: Aurora Scharff demonstrates how to build reusable UI components (TabList, EditableText) that internalize async coordination using useTransition and useOptimistic, so consumers just pass a value and an action prop.
Link: Building Design Components with Action Props using Async React
TLDR: TkDodo explains why custom hooks are the wrong abstraction for TanStack Query configurations, and why queryOptions combined with simple object spreading is the correct, type-safe, composable approach.
Link: Creating Query Abstractions
TLDR: Kent C. Dodds migrated his 42,000-line, 330,000-word website from Remix v2 to React Router v7, along with dozens of other dependency upgrades, using Cursor's AI agents with background processing and overnight runs.
Link: How I used Cursor to Migrate Frameworks
TLDR: Sergio Xalambri argues that React Router loaders and actions should be treated as integration points, not units to test in isolation. Test your business logic separately and use E2E tests for the full flow.
Link: React Router Loaders and Actions as Integration Points
TLDR: A developer stripped Next.js from a project and rewrote it in plain HTML/JS with AI assistance, only to discover that framework conventions serve as critical "instructions for AI" that prevent code organization drift.
Link: Removing Next.js Taught Me Why Frameworks Are Still Essential Even for AI
TLDR: useTransition causes two renders (one immediate with isPending=true, one deferred), is designed for CPU-bound work not network requests, and should never wrap the input state itself, only the expensive derived state.
Link: React's useTransition: The hook you're probably using wrong
TLDR: Next.js now ships version-matched documentation inside the next package at node_modules/next/dist/docs/, and generates AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files to direct AI coding agents to accurate, up-to-date API references.
Link: Guides: AI Coding Agents
TLDR: Dictionary compression with Zstandard and Brotli is now shipping in Chrome and Node.js, enabling up to 90% reduction in JavaScript bundle transfer sizes for returning users by using previous responses as compression dictionaries.
Link: Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
TLDR: Oxfmt, the Rust-powered code formatter from the OXC project, has reached beta with 100% Prettier JavaScript/TypeScript conformance, 30x faster performance, and support for 20+ file formats including built-in Tailwind CSS class sorting.
Link: Oxfmt Beta
TLDR: A new CSS property, border-shape, redefines the geometry of an element's border box so that backgrounds, borders, outlines, and box shadows all follow custom shapes. Currently testable in Chrome Canary 146+.
Link: border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web
TLDR: Josh Comeau explains how to implement sprite-based animations using CSS object-fit, object-position, and the steps() timing function, showing when sprites are the right choice over procedural animations.
Link: Sprites on the Web
TLDR: React Native now officially supports Meta Quest VR devices, running on Meta Horizon OS (an Android-based OS) with Expo Go available on the Meta Horizon Store for rapid development iteration.