React Goes Independent: Inside the New React Foundation
About this episode
It’s been a big week for React devs as the annual React Conf just wrapped up in Las Vegas.
The biggest news? React and React Native are moving out from under Meta to a new React Foundation with an independent technical governance structure. The React Foundation’s mission will be to support the React community and ecosystem, and a board of directors will steer it going forward.
Also in time for React Conf, React 19.2 dropped, and it brings new features like partial pre-rendering, a new useEffectEvent hook, and an <Activity/> component that lets devs prioritize rendering tomaintain state and make navigation faster.
Not to be outdone, Cloudflare announced a new RPC protocol called Cap’n Web, which is a pure TypeScript implementation. What makes Cap’n Web unique is that it supports bi-directional calling, promise pipelining, and lets users design RPC interfaces that look like regular JavaScript APIs.
Chapter Markers:
- 03:18 - React Foundation
- 07:10 - React Compiler 1.0 and React 19.2
- 17:13 - Cap’n Web
- 24:19 - Opera Neon
- 27:16 - The EU is considering cookie law changes
- 31:43 - The Internet Archive hits 1 trillion pages
- 33:33 - What’s making us happy
Links:
- Paige - Cap’n Web pure TypeScript RPC system
- Jack - Introducing the React Foundation
- TJ - React 19.2
- European policymakers may be fixing the cookie banner headache they created
- Opera wants you to pay $20 per month for its new AI browser
- Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
What Makes Us Happy this Week:
- Paige - The Terminal List: Dark Wolf TV series
- Jack - Fender Acoustasonic guitar
- TJ - Portable stadium seat addition
Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube.
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