React Weekly Issue 156

Welcome to the 156th issue of React Weekly — your weekly roundup of the most useful news, tools, tutorials, and discussions from the React ecosystem.

This week in React: React’s governance takes a major step forward with the launch of the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation, signaling broader ecosystem stewardship. Meanwhile, portability and platform debates heat up with Cloudflare’s experimental vinext project. Across the stack, developers are refining abstractions, tightening type safety through OpenAPI and schema-driven approaches, and expanding React Native into new device categories. The ecosystem continues its steady cadence of tooling and component updates, reflecting a mature but still fast-moving platform.

• The React Foundation Launches: React, React Native, and JSX are now stewarded by an independent foundation under the Linux Foundation, with major ecosystem players on the inaugural board and Seth Webster as executive director.

• Cloudflare’s vinext: An experimental, Vite-based reimplementation of Next.js’s API surface designed to run apps in alternative environments like Cloudflare Workers, sparking discussion around portability and security tradeoffs.

• Expo SDK 55: Updates to React Native 0.83 and React 19.2, a revamped default template, removal of legacy architecture support, and optional Hermes v1 support.

• React Native on Meta Quest: Official support for building immersive apps for Meta’s Quest devices using React Native, with guidance from Meta and Callstack engineers.

• Creating Query Abstractions: Why wrapping useQuery in custom hooks can be the wrong abstraction, and how the queryOptions API improves type inference and flexibility.

• OpenAPI-Driven React: Use OpenAPI as the source of truth to eliminate frontend-backend type drift, combining Hey API, MSW, and Zod for type-safe data flows.

• Action Props with Async React: A look at building design components that embrace async workflows through action-based props.

• Preparing Next.js for AI Coding Agents: Official guidance on structuring Next.js projects to work effectively with AI-powered development agents.

• JSON Schema-Driven Forms in React: Building dynamic, schema-driven forms to reduce duplication and centralize validation logic.

• Yoopta Editor 6.0: A MIT-licensed, headless rich text editor for building block-based, Notion-style experiences in React, with plugins and UI components included.

• react-native-enriched-markdown 0.3: Native Markdown rendering for React Native apps, now with GFM and full RTL support.

• React PDF 10.4: Adds customizable rendering colors for displaying PDFs within React applications.

• React DayPicker 9.14: Continued updates to the customizable date picker component.

• ReactToPrint 3.3: Enhancements to the library that enables printing React component content.

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