Bookmarks (123)

react-anchorme 5.0: Links Up URLs and Emails in Text — A component that uses Anchorme.js to detect linkable elements in text and create the links for them. Now supports React 19.

React Cookie Manager: A Customizable Component for Cookie Consent — A well-documented solution that will automatically block tracking if necessary and can easily be customized. You can try the live demo here, which is also an interactive page demonstrating its features.

json-edit-react: Component to Edit and View JSON/Object Data — An elegant, well presented component to take a JavaScript object, complete with nested objects, and show off the values, as well as allowing users to edit them. Has a neat demo on the homepage showing how flexible it is. GitHub repo.

Deploying a Next.js App to Production on Any Server — A popular article from last year that’s been updated for 2025 and Next.js 15.

▶  React Query API Design: Lessons Learned — You might know Dominik for all his work on React Query, TanStack Router, and his epic React Query - The Bad Parts series. Here, he walks us through the design choices made while building React Query and shares lessons and mistakes valuable to anyone building their own libraries. (30 minutes.)

Next.js 15.2.3 Released Due to Security Vulnerability — This past weekend, a new version of Next.js was released to resolve a serious security vulnerability, which could allow the skipping of middleware (including that used for authentication). Self-hosted Next.js deployments need to be upgraded immediately. The news led to a lot of responses from extensive HN threads to deep dives into the vulnerability, and criticism...

Master Chrome's DevTools — Join Jon Kuperman for this video course diving into Chrome's DevTools. You'll go beyond console.log(), learning how to inspect, debug, and audit your web apps — tracking performance, identifying bottlenecks, making performance gains, and more. Level up your DevTools skills.

Gemini: Google's AI App Adds 'Canvas' Mode for React Devs — Gemini is essentially Google’s answer to ChatGPT and now has a developer ‘canvas’ mode which can be used to create, iterate, and preview React and HTML code right in the browser. It’s free at a basic level, too, so if you have a Google account, you should get straight in.

React Trends in 2025 — Each year Robin does a post giving his opinion on what trends he sees arising over the next year. Last year, he put his money on Astro, RSCs, Vercel, and Biome – this year he points at React Server Components, shadcn/ui, TanStack Start, React Router, and more.

Next.js vs TanStack — An incisive essay from a developer who’s had enough of the Next.js approach and has found solace in the approach offered by the increasingly capable TanStack collection of tools (as well as Vite).

Bright: A React Server Component for Syntax Highlighting — Customizable and includes all of VS Code’s syntax highlighting themes, some of which are demonstrated on the page.

Typist 8.0: Tiptap-Based Rich Text Editor Component — Simple and opinionated. You can try several examples linked in the sidebar. Well suited for basic rich text situations like writing comments or messages and has a single-line mode. GitHub repo.

Meet the AI Coding Assistant Built for React — Augment gets your components, hooks, and state management. Ask anything about your frontend.

A shadcn/ui + Tailwind v4 Dashboard Example with Code — The shadcn/ui team has open-sourced an app they built to test Tailwind v4 and React 19 support. It’s a dashboard supporting custom themes, colors and scaling, along with a neat, flexible data table. The code is here.

SSR Deep Dive for React Developers — Explore step-by-step how Server-Side Rendering (SSR), pre-rendering, hydration, and Static Site Generation (SSG) work in React, their costs, performance impact, benefits, and trade-offs.

The Great ESLint v9 Migration Adventure: A Developer's Survival Guide — “Let’s just say… I’ve seen things. I hit all the bumps, took all the wrong turns, and somehow made it to the other side—so you don’t have to.”

KendoReact Free is Here, npm-Install Available! — 50+ robust KendoReact components, including React Data Grid, DatePicker and DropDownList. No sign-ups, trials, or licenses required - you can use KendoReact Free in production, to experiment, or to quickly see what it's all about!

🔎 React Native Package Checker — An online tool to check React Native packages for compatibility with the ‘New Architecture’.

How The New York Times Migrated from Enzyme to React Testing Library — A thorough look at the technical challenges and strategies the NYT used to perform a piecemeal upgrade of its React testing approach without disrupting either end users or other developers.

A Newsletter to Help Flex Your Product Muscles — Product for Engineers is a newsletter dedicated to helping improve your product skills. Get curated advice on building great products, lessons (and mistakes) they’ve learned building PostHog, and deep dives on the strategies of top startups.

Building APIs with Next.js — A detailed, official introduction to the concepts behind using Next.js’ App Router and route handlers to build public APIs you can expose to web, mobile, and third-party clients.

The URL is a Great Place to Store State in React — This is a surprisingly contentious idea and certainly suits some use cases more than others but, the author argues, “Sometimes, the best place to store state is right in the URL.”

Reimplementing Crossy Road with React Three Fiber — A well put together set of tutorials covering reimplementing the classic Crossy Road game with React Three Fiber. In both written and video form.

Instrument, Monitor, Fix: A Hands-On Debugging Class — Join us for a hands-on session where you’ll build it, watch it break, debug it, and go from “no idea what’s wrong” to fixing issues.

React Complex Tree: An Accessible Tree Component — An advanced tree component with multi-select, drag-and-drop, renaming, and keyboard controls.

Search Input Query: Search Input Query Parser and React Component — A library that can take a supplied structured search query, parse it, generate SQL, as well as a React component for entering such queries. Interesting approach.

UVCanvas: Render Shaded Canvases from React — The examples are fantastic and will give you the idea immediately - they range from clean and simple to things like look like macOS screensavers and lava-lamp-esque experiences.

⌘K: A Fast, Composable, Unstyled 'Command Menu' Control — The home page includes some neat examples in a variety of styles. GitHub repo. Needs React 18+.

Ink 5.2: Build Interactive CLI Apps using React — A terminal-based React renderer so you can build command line apps using React-style components.

Lynx: A Fresh Alternative to React Native? — I’m taking liberties with the headline, but Lynx is a new framework for building JavaScript-powered native apps that draws inspiration from React Native but aims to be more modular and flexible (and eventually framework agnostic). It comes from, and is used by, TikTok, and comes with its own QuickJS-based JavaScript engine.

PDFSlick 2.2: View and Interact with PDF Documents — A full-featured PDF viewer for React, Solid, Svelte and other JS apps. Built on top of PDF.js, it uses Zustand to provide a reactive store for documents. Demo.

🕒 react-timer-hook: A Hook to Handle Timer, Stopwatch and Time State — Provides useTimer, useStopwatch and useTime for implementing various forms of time logic/state in components.

Electron App Boilerplate App with Modern Dependencies — A basic template app that uses React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, Electron Vite, Biome, and includes a GitHub Actions release workflow.

React Data Table: Response Dynamic Table Component — Simple and clean, but flexible. Includes features like column sorting and pagination out of the box. Lots of demos and code examples. GitHub repo.

React Server Actions with Toast Feedback — Robin runs through, step-by-step, how to implement toast notifications as a way to provide real-time user feedback.

▶  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 Herrington’s 8-minute tour will change your mind.

Learn How to Enrich PostHog Events with Your User Data — In this guide, you’ll learn how to associate events in PostHog directly to users of your Next.js application. User-level event data can yield insights to inform process optimization, improve user satisfaction and drive growth.

TanStack Form v1.0: Headless, Type-Safe Form State Management — A type-safe, framework agnostic (though closely associated with React), headless and isomorphic way to create and work with forms, with this v1.0 release over two years in the making. If you already use things like Formik or React Hook Form and are wondering how it differs to those, here’s a comparison table.

React Libraries for 2025 — Each year, prolific React blogger Robin 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.

Using F# to Build React Apps: Transpiling to JS with Fable — The first in a promised series of posts on using Microsoft’s functional language F# to build React apps. Step one is to turn your JavaScript into F# by using Fable.

React Native 0.78 Released — A big release for React Native as it ships React 19 support (which requires some tweaks when upgrading) and some more minor tweaks.

📊 The State of React Native 2024 — In the last issue we linked to the results of the State of React 2024 survey, now it’s React Native’s turn. It gives a good look at what React Native developers are using in modern apps, particularly if you’re not familiar with the space, and it’s interesting to see how widely popular Expo now is.

React Officially Sunsetting Create React App — This move has been bubbling for a long time now, but the React team is now officially recommending CRA-powered apps migrate to a framework (like Next.js) or build tools like Vite.

Justd: A Set of Accessible React Components Styled with Tailwind — A self-described ‘chill set of React components’ built on top of Adobe’s popular (and highly accessible) React Aria Components.

Redux Toolkit 2.6: Now with RTK Query Infinite Query Support — The popular way to integrate Redux into a modern React app has added a much requested feature: support for infinite queries (the ability to keep fetching additional pages of data for a given endpoint).

React Explorer: A Way to Visualize any React Powered Site — A new tool from React Scan’s creator for turning React sites into interactive visualizations representing the component tree. Highly experimental and new, so your mileage (and whether or not you even find such a visualization helpful) may vary.

React D3 Tree: Interactive Tree Graph Component — Handy for things like family trees or org charts. There are a few practical examples on display here. Uses D3 for rendering. GitHub repo.

Build a Next.js Sign-Up Form with React Hook Form — Features progressive enhancement, dynamic validation, and secure password handling with Argon2.

The React Data Table I Always Wanted — A look into a particularly fast and clean shadcn/ui-based data table component (GitHub repo). You can see a live demo here.

Quicky: An Easy Way to Self-Host Next.js & Node.js Apps — A CLI tool that simplifies deployment and management of Next.js and Node projects.