TMiR 2026-07: React-alikes, GOVERNANCE, and state management
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- (00:00) - This Month in React July 2026
- (01:27) - New releases
- (01:29) - Vite+ Beta
- (02:41) - TypeScript 7.0 released
- (03:56) - Open PR for “content mappers” to typecheck templates other than JSX
- (04:57) - Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools
- (05:18) - OXC type-aware linting stable
- (06:00) - NPM v12 and new security defaults
- (07:00) - Dependabot supports a configurable delay
- (07:37) - More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x
- (08:06) - Main Content
- (08:07) - React org updates
- (08:22) - “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page
- (11:11) - Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council
- (14:37) - Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally
- (15:39) - Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX
- (17:16) - Poimandres published a charter
- (20:20) - For instance, WebGL text rendering
- (21:30) - React-alikes
- (21:40) - Octane from Dominic Gannaway
- (28:27) - Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency"
- (29:12) - “Do people think FE innovation is dead?
- (30:31) - Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3
- (32:22) - "no benchmark […] has captured the relationship between reactivity and rendering"
- (35:04) - ReactBench to measure AI code quality from Aidan Bai
- (36:37) - Alex Russell thinks everyone is screwing up state management
- (47:41) - Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works
- (48:22) - And a post on RSC performance patterns
- (48:41) - TanStack removed RSCs from the website
- (51:04) - Mark is experimenting with perf improvements for RTK v3
- (57:36) - Making referential stability a type
- (59:17) - Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha
- (59:39) - Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle
- (01:00:17) - Marker
- (01:02:04) - Goodbye, forever, probably.
- (01:08:41) - Conferences
- (01:08:53) - Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland
- (01:09:14) - Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain
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Mark Erikson
An engineer maintaining Redux and Redux Toolkit, working at Replay.io to make smarter AI chat bots and debuggers using time travel.
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Carl Vitullo
Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux, the largest chat community of React professionals.