Welcome to Issue #9! If there was ever a week that felt like a "new chapter" for our community, this is it. The biggest news: The React Foundation is officially here. By moving React to a neutral, open-governance model under the Linux Foundation, the core team is ensuring that React belongs to the community for the next decade and beyond. But the excitement doesn't stop at governance. React Native is officially coming to Meta Quest, meaning your skills as a React developer now extend into the world of VR and AR. On the infrastructure front, the "Platform Wars" are heating up—Cloudflare just launched ViNext to optimize Next.js, while Vercel published a guide on how to migrate away from Cloudflare. With the stable release of Expo SDK 55 and architectural masterclasses from TkDodo, we’ve got a packed issue to help you navigate these massive shifts.

📰 Article

Creating Query Abstractions

TkDodo explores the architectural art of wrapping TanStack Query. Learn how to create maintainable data-fetching layers that hide implementation details while keeping your UI components clean and type-safe.

By TkDodo

react • tanstack • typescript

📰 Article

React Native Comes to Meta Quest · React Native

The boundaries of React Native have expanded into 3D space. Meta and the React Native team have officially launched support for Meta Quest, allowing developers to build immersive VR/AR experiences using the same React patterns they use for mobile.

By React Native Team

react-native

📰 Article

How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week

One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

By Steve Faulkner

ai • cloudflare workers • workers ai • developers • developer platform

📰 Article

Migrate to Vercel from Cloudflare | Vercel Knowledge Base

As the platform wars heat up, Vercel has released a comprehensive technical guide for teams looking to migrate their projects from Cloudflare Pages and Workers over to the Vercel ecosystem.

By Vercel Team

react • nextjs

📰 Article

5 OTA Update best practices every mobile team should know

Deploying code directly to users' devices is a responsibility. Expo outlines five critical strategies for managing OTA updates, from versioning safeguards to automated rollback triggers.

By Ishika Chakraborty

react-native • expo

📢 News

Introducing npm i chat – One codebase, every chat platform - Vercel

Chat SDK is now open source and available in public beta. It's a TypeScript library for building chat bots that work across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear — from a single codebase.

By Vercel Team

react • nextjs

📢 News

The React Foundation: A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation – React

A historic milestone: The React team has announced the formation of the React Foundation. By moving React to a neutral, non-profit home under the Linux Foundation, the project ensures long-term sustainability, open governance, and a collaborative future beyond Meta.

By Matt Carroll

react

📢 News

Expo SDK 55 - Expo Changelog

Moving out of beta, Expo SDK 55 is now stable. This release cements the New Architecture as the default, introduces massive improvements to EAS Update bytecode diffing, and refines the overall developer experience for 2026.

By Alan Hughes, Brent Vatne

react-native • expo