Dan Abramov joins the Next.js team

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Plus Vite 8.1, writing custom renderers for React, and rendering components to images.

#​480 — June 26, 2026

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Making Next.js Navigations Feel Instant Without Going Full SPA — A preview of Next.js 16.3 is available that tackles a common gripe about Server Components: sluggish navigation. New opt-in behaviors keep the server-side benefits, while making navigations feel like an SPA. They’ve also created 🤖 an agent skill to help existing projects adopt the new features.

Clark, Story and the Next.js Team

🎉 In a Bluesky thread commenting on the release, Dan Abramov revealed he's joining the Next.js team on a part-time basis!

Still Writing Tests Manually? Meticulous AI Is Here — Notion, Dropbox, Wiz and LaunchDarkly now use a testing paradigm they can’t work without. Built by former Palantir engineers, Meticulous automatically creates an evolving suite of E2E UI tests, delivering exhaustive coverage with no developer effort.

Meticulous sponsor

IN BRIEF:

  • Vite 8.1 includes a 'bundled dev mode' that makes apps with large numbers of modules boot/reload faster (testing on an app with 10,000 components showed a 15x speedup, with more modest gains on real-world apps).

  • Rsbuild 2.1 has been released and now includes the new Rust implementation of React Compiler, plus TanStack Start support.

  • Meanwhile, Rolldown and Vite have temporarily 𝕏 removed the initial Rust React Compiler integration citing a 17% increase in binary size.

Moving Linear from styled‑components to StyleX — Linear migrated its React apps away from a runtime CSS-in-JS approach for ~30% faster renders when navigating between pages. An agent-built codemod (of some 100k lines!) did the grunt work, but Kenneth is honest about what still needed a human touch.

Kenneth Skovhus

Writing Custom Renderers for React — When React 19 deprecated React Test Renderer, the React Native Testing Library maintainer built his own. The upside? We get a tour of the reconciler internals he had to wrangle along the way.

Maciej Jastrzębski (Callstack)

You Write React. You Can Ship It to the App Store This Week — One React codebase, real apps on iOS and Android. Expo handles the builds, the store, and updates. Start free.

Expo sponsor

📄 Waku’s Unique Feature: Slices – A slice is a reusable component with its own render config, and a lazy mode that loads independently, akin to Astro’s server islands. Daishi Kato

📄 How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage – The tale of how TanStack Table v9 uses far less memory than v8 on large tables. Kevin Van Cott (TanStack)

📄 Building a Video Call App with Filters in React Native Ritesh Shukla

🛠  Code, Tools & Libraries

Takumi 2.0 Beta: Render React Components to Images — A Rust-powered engine that renders JSX to images without a headless browser. v2.0 adds SVG output support, on-demand Google Fonts use, improved non-Latin character support, and new docs. There’s a v2 upgrade guide for existing users. (TanStack uses this on their site.)

Kane Wang et al.

ForesightJS 4: Predictive User Intent for Web Pages — Predicts user intent from mouse and keyboard cues to prefetch content for a snappier UX. v4.0 adds a React package with a declarative <Foresight> component.

ForesightJS, Inc.

cnfast: A Faster Drop-In Replacement for cn() — shadcn/ui ships a cn() helper to compose and merge Tailwind class names. cnfast is a faster, drop-in replacement.

Aiden Bai

🤖 Eve: Like Next.js, But for Building Agents — A new framework from Vercel that provides Next.js-esque structure for building AI-powered agents using TypeScript and Markdown.

Vercel

  • TinyBase v8.5 – Reactive data store and sync engine backend for powering apps that need to feel fast and work offline. v8.5 adds a module for rendering reactive SVG chart components in React apps.

  • React Admin 5.15 – SPA framework providing a React and Material Design frontend to REST or GraphQL APIs. v5.15 adds MUI v9 support.

  • 📊 Recharts 3.9 – React + D3 charting library. v3.9 adds new animations and a guide to using them.

  • RedwoodSDK 1.5 – The Cloudflare-based server-first React framework adds Vite 8 support.

  • React Native Reanimated 4.5 – Declarative API for smooth animations.

  • ReactUse 1.0 – A library of 160+ production-ready hooks.

  • Mantine v9.4 – Popular, extensive component suite.

📰 Classifieds

🏢 Add org context to OAuth flows: users pick an org, clients get an org_id claim.

⚛️ You compose React from components. Compose your AI backend the same way — agents as typed APIs, native TypeScript SDK, 100+ recipes. → Star on GitHub.

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem
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