🎄 It's the last issue of 2025, so we're looking back over some of the popular stories and links of the year. Also, React Status will be moving to Fridays in January 2026, as part of a reshuffle for many of our newsletters.
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Your editor, Peter Cooper |
The Top React Links of 2025 | It's the final issue of the year, so it's time to look back at what got the most engagement this year. But, first, a few bits of news: |
 Solve Enterprise Auth, Identity, and Security For Your App — Enterprise customers demand SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and audit logs that meet strict compliance standards. WorkOS offers developers a platform for shipping these features fast with a suite of easy-to-integrate APIs and a portal for streamlined customer onboarding. WorkOS |
Ready, Steady, React! | And in reverse order based upon engagement, we're off: |
| 1. React Libraries for 2025 — Each year, Robin Wieruch updates his post covering his opinionated list of essential React ecosystem libraries. He covers a lot of angles from project creation and package management through to state management, animation, form creation, auth, and i18n. He has a good nose for this sort of thing, and we look forward to a 2026 update! Robin Wieruch |
💡 Another popular item of Robin's is his annual list of React trends. He was pretty much on the money back in March. |
| 3. How to Start a React Project in 2025 — It's Robin again! There are many ways to start a React project, but Robin examines the pros and cons of a few popular approaches now that Create React App is no longer king. We expect to see TanStack Start feature more strongly in a 2026 update. Robin Wieruch |
| 4. Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh |
| 7. Impossible Components — Dan Abramov had a series of interesting 'big picture' blog posts early in 2025 and this was the most popular. He looks at the idea of so-called 'impossible' components that mix server-only and client-only features, and how React Server Components can help bridge that divide. Dan Abramov |
| 8. TanStack DB: The Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query — differential dataflow to power live, relational queries, sub‑ms incremental updates, and seamless optimistic writes. This intro post did a good job at selling the idea and the project remains under active development (though is still in beta). Kyle Mathews and Sam Willis |
| 10. Next.js vs TanStack — An incisive essay from a developer who had enough of the Next.js approach and found solace in the approach offered by the increasingly capable TanStack collection of tools (as well as Vite). I suspect more React developers will be thinking about this choice over the next year. Kyle Gill |
📺 Top React Videos of the Year |
| Videos tend to get fewer clicks than other items, probably because they require some time investment to watch and not everyone is on a suitable device. Nonetheless, five videos managed to top a thousand clickthroughs this year: |
| ▶ Figma MCP vs Claude: A UI Building Battle — Four months is almost a lifetime when it comes to AI these days, but this video from Jack remains relevant. Jack had a basic view built in Figma and wanted to turn it into working React code. He compared taking a screenshot and getting Claude Code to implement it versus using Figma's own MCP server to do the work. Jack Herrington |
| ▶ React Mock Interview: Three Devs Take on a Challenge — Kent C Dodds, Piyush Agarwal, and Jack Herrington all took on the same React development challenge to build a form complete with validation, much as if they were facing a job interview. A fun one to watch over the holidays. Shruti Kapoor |
| ▶ How to Fix Your Slow React App with React Scan — React Scan is a handy tool you can easily use against your React app to detect and surface performance related issues. If you haven't been convinced to try it so far, maybe Jack's 8-minute tour will change your mind. Jack Herrington |
| 🎁 P.S. We hope you have a great holiday season and we'll be back on Friday, January 9. |
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