S2 · E8Aug 29, 2025 · 56 min
New releases
TS 5.9
TS 6.0 may make `strict` and change other defaults
React Native 0.81
Next 15.5
Preact 11 beta
Hydration 2.0
Bun 1.2.21
Native YAML support. Definitely not going to cause any problems
Tanstack DB beta
Ghost v6
Main Content
React API changes / updates
React deprecating the “throw a promise” Suspense trigger method
Discussion between Dan, Dominik, and Ricky about how to support multiple React versions (if at all)
Joe Savona: “no useContext in useMemo, the compiler addresses this”
Github discussion with Joe about why no context selectors API or signals, research into data modeling, and why “concurrent stores” are the current focus area
PR for “concurrent stores” skeleton
Third-party `react-concurrent-store` ponyfill package
Devtools Suspense Timeline
Lee Robinsons’s “Reflections on the React Community” wrap-up post
Remix doing its own component model??
Remix 3 and the End of React-Centric Architectures
Popular nx packages compromised on npm
Last month eslint-plugin-prettier maintainers were targeted, this is a much broader attack
⚡ Lightning round ⚡
React Strict DOM vs React Native for Web in 2025
Faster JSON.stringify()
Node 22.18 unflags TS type-stripping support
Waku switches to Vite’s WIP RSC support
Rari, a fast React framework with RSC support built with Rust
Selecting values from query results, as well as The Useless useCallback
TS+ postmortem (Effect-TS experimental TS fork)
React useTransition update ordering details
“A Clock that Doesn’t Snap”, Techniques for fixing hydration of values like dates
React Cache: It’s about consistency
Self-hosting Next at scale
Server and Client Component Composition in Practice
Conferences (React, Javascript)
React Universe Conf Sept 2-4, 2025. Wrocław, Poland
WaysConf Sept 16-17
CascadiaJS Sept 18-19 Seattle, WA, USA
https://squiggleconf.com/ Sep 18
React Alicante Oct 2-4
React Conf is back, Oct 7-8 Las Vegas, NV, USA
Remix Jam, Oct 10, Toronto ON, CA
(00:00) - This Month in React - August 2025
(00:47) - New releases
(00:51) - [TS 5.9](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-9/)
(02:50) - [TS 6.0 may enable /`strict/` by default](https://bsky.app/profile/robpalmer.bsky.social/post/3lxar2cp5rs2p) and [change other defaults](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues?q=milestone%3A%22TypeScript%206.0.0%22)
(03:46) - [React Native 0.81](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2025/08/12/react-native-0.81)
(05:40) - [Next 15.5](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-15-5)
(07:10) - [Preact 11 beta](https://github.com/preactjs/preact/releases/tag/11.0.0-beta.0)
(07:39) - [Hydration 2.0](https://github.com/preactjs/preact/issues/4442)
(07:52) - [Bun 1.2.21](https://bun.com/blog/release-notes/bun-v1.2.21)
(08:54) - Native YAML support. Definitely not going to [cause any problems](https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell)
(10:21) - [Tanstack DB beta](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-db-0.1-the-embedded-client-database-for-tanstack-query)
(11:30) - [Ghost v6](https://ghost.org/changelog/6/)
(13:09) - Main Content
(13:13) - React API changes / updates
(13:24) - [React deprecating the “throw a promise” Suspense trigger method](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/34032)
(16:20) - Discussion between Dan, Dominik, and Ricky about [how to support multiple React versions (if at all)](https://bsky.app/profile/tkdodo.eu/post/3lv4rhr4mrs2i)
(17:43) - Github discussion with Joe about [why no context selectors API or signals, research into data modeling, and why “concurrent stores” are the current focus area](https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/119#issuecomment-3214971470)
(21:25) - [PR for “concurrent stores” skeleton](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/33215)
(23:13) - [Third-party /`react-concurrent-store/` ponyfill package](https://github.com/thejustinwalsh/react-concurrent-store)
(26:39) - Lee Robinsons’s [“Reflections on the React Community”](https://leerob.com/reflections) wrap-up post
(31:18) - [Remix doing its own component model??](https://x.com/mjackson/status/1954975322157486408)
(36:46) - [Remix 3 and the End of React-Centric Architectures](https://thenewstack.io/remix-3-and-the-end-of-react-centric-architectures/)
(37:21) - [P...
