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How busy professionals stay on top of the React ecosystem. We give you a 1 hour recap of the latest news and nuance in React's development and ecosystem, upcoming conferences, and open source releases. New episodes the first week of every month, with live recordings on the last Wednesday of every month in the Reactiflux stage. Hosted Mark Erikson (Redux maintainer), Carl Vitullo (startup veteran), and Mo Khazali (head of mobile at Theodo). See something for us? Post to #tech-reads-and-news
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May 7, 2026
<p><a href="https://www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/tmir-2026-04">Transcript</a></p><p><strong> <a href="https://donate.stripe.com/14A4gyfrP5YS0Za6HbfMA04" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast ★">★ Support this podcast ★</a> </strong><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yfqlzwi66ubgasg5z6pjiudc/post/3mlc4wrt36g2k" title="Reply on Bluesky">Reply on Bluesky</a><br> <br></p><ul><li>(00:00) - This Month in React April</li> <li>(00:26) - Introductions</li> <li>(02:36) - What convinced you AI code tools were worth using?</li> <li>(04:24) - Using early ChatGPT for DB migrations </li> <li>(06:59) - Watching AI use a command-line</li> <li>(08:16) - Background chat agents</li> <li>(08:58) - Staying very hands-on while using AI tools</li> <li>(11:00) - Driving AI closely without reading its code</li> <li>(17:50) - Mark's workflow; OpenCode with CodeNomad UI, plus IDE+git UI. Opus 4.6 on API</li> <li>(20:39) - Swizec's workflow, latest Cursor on Opus</li> <li>(23:58) - Carl's workflow, mostly ClaudeCode but looking at custom orchestrators</li> <li>(25:23) - Exploring fully autonomous agents</li> <li>(28:08) - Mark's AI debugging work in React core</li> <li>(31:42) - Value of providing more context</li> <li>(33:58) - AI-owned documentation</li> <li>(37:09) - Using good engineering practices still matters?</li> <li>(40:47) - How do you know the right code to make?</li> <li>(42:49) - Good communication still matters</li> <li>(45:13) - What will "review" look like in the future?</li> <li>(46:17) - Automating functionality tests with deployment practices</li> <li>(51:49) - What behaviors belong to the agent, and what fundamentally can't be part of the agent?</li> <li>(56:17) - Impacts of LLMs on software engineering?</li> <li>(01:03:22) - A superpower right now is a domain expert who can kind of code</li> </ul><br>
March 3, 2026
<p><a href="http://reactiflux.com/transcripts/tmir-2026-02">Transcript and links</a></p><p></p><ul><li>(00:00) - This Month in React February 2026</li> <li>(01:46) - New releases</li> <li>(01:50) - [TS 6.0 beta](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-beta/)/! (last TS impl release; stricter defaults)</li> <li>(02:34) - [Yarn 6 preview](https://yarn6.netlify.app/blog/2026-01-28-yarn-6-preview/) (rewritten in Rust)</li> <li>(02:52) - [Electrobun](https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/) (Tauri alternative)</li> <li>(03:31) - [React Native Gesture Handler v3](https://blog.swmansion.com/introducing-gesture-handler-3-0-hook-based-api-deeper-reanimated-integration-more-9185b0c8e305) </li> <li>(04:20) - [Next polyfills improved WebStreams and upstreaming to Node](https://vercel.com/blog/we-ralph-wiggumed-webstreams-to-make-them-10x-faster)</li> <li>(05:25) - [Webpack 2026 roadmap](https://webpack.js.org/blog/2026-04-02-roadmap-2026/)</li> <li>(05:53) - [Lodash maintenance roadmap](https://socket.dev/blog/inside-lodash-security-reset)</li> <li>(07:07) - [Gatsby React 19 support](https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/reference/release-notes/v5.16/) , [styled-components RSC support](https://styled-components.com/releases#styled-components@6.3.0)</li> <li>(07:54) - [npmx.dev](https://npmx.dev/) (alternate NPM site UI)</li> <li>(08:43) - [eslint-plugin-react-render-types](https://github.com/HorusGoul/eslint-plugin-react-render-types) (typed children)</li> <li>(09:54) - Main Content</li> <li>(09:55) - React Core updates:</li> <li>(09:56) - [React Foundation officially launched](https://react.dev/blog/2026/02/24/the-react-foundation)</li> <li>(12:28) - Docs updates: [/`useActionState/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8284) (merged), [/`use/`](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8305) and [RSC sandboxes](https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/8300) (wip)</li> <li>(14:23) - [React Native 0.84 released](https://reactnative.dev/blog/2026/02/11/react-native-0.84)</li> <li>(17:47) - [Hermes WASM support](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2023821160241393839) , [Hermes Node compat CLI](https://x.com/tmikov/status/2024609186936660170)</li> <li>(18:43) - “State of…” survey results</li> <li>(18:43) - [State of JS 2025 results](https://2025.stateofjs.com/en-US)</li> <li>(19:06) - [State of React 2025 results](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US)</li> <li>(19:51) - [Aurora Scharff’s conclusion](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/conclusion/)</li> <li>(20:44) - [Josh Comeau’s takes on the results](https://bsky.app/profile/joshwcomeau.com/post/3mf642css6227)</li> <li>(21:28) - [API pain points](https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/features/#main_apis_pain_points)</li> <li>(21:53) - [State of React Native 2025](https://results.2025.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/)</li> <li>(24:29) - [How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week](https://blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/)</li> <li>(29:52) - CloudFlare v Vercel beef</li> <li>(35:42) - Carl Vitullo monologs about AI Agents</li> <li>(42:27) - AI productivity and impacts on our attention</li> <li>(44:42) - ["wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and went home"](https://x.com/rvivek/status/2026385957596111044)</li> <li>(47:26) - [Bits AI SRE | Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/product/ai/bits-ai-sre/)</li> <li>(51:04) - [ThoughtWorks opines on AI productivity impacts](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/14/thoughtworks/)</li> <li>(01:00:28) - ⚡ Lightning round ⚡</li> <li>(01:00:37) - [“Wall Street Raider” game modernization](https://www.wallstreetraider.com/story.html) (and uses Preact)</li> <li>(01:01:16) - [Github Stacked Diffs preview](https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2019817235163074881) , [faster Issues search](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-29-improved-search-for-github-issues-in-public-preview/)</li> <li>(01:02:08) - [Josh Comeau: Sprite animations](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/)</li> <li>(01:02:26) - [Interop 2026](https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026), ([WebKit](https://webkit.org/blog/17818/announcing-interop-2026/), [Igalia](https://www.igalia.com/news/interop-2026.html))</li> <li>(01:03:38) - Conferences ([React](https://react.dev/community/conferences), [Javascript](https://confs.tech/javascript))</li> </ul><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yfqlzwi66ubgasg5z6pjiudc/post/3mg4zxws7vo2z" title="Reply on Bluesky">Reply on Bluesky</a><br> <br><strong> <a href="https://donate.stripe.com/14A4gyfrP5YS0Za6HbfMA04" rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast ★">★ Support this podcast ★</a> </strong>
February 5, 2026
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