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
TMiR 2026-09: React 19.3; a eulogy to software engineering?
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Mark Erikson (https://tmir.transistor.fm/people/mark-erikson) - Host
Carl Vitullo (https://tmir.transistor.fm/people/carl-vitullo) - Producer
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(00:00) - 2026-09: React 19.3; a eulogy to software engineering?
(01:08) - New Releases
(01:09) - Redux has a unified docs site now
(03:39) - React-Redux `useSignalSelector` hook alphas
(04:13) - Vite+ 1.0
(06:10) - Vitest 5
(06:30) - Vinext 1.0
(07:01) - Lovable OJ vite-mostly-compatible dev server
(07:37) - Preact 11
(08:23) - MSW 3
(09:28) - React Router 8.4
(09:47) - Remix 3 RC
(10:43) - Shopify bought Tailwind
(11:01) - Jotai 3
(11:59) - Poimandres Glyph typography engine
(13:05) - Vidact
(14:14) - Tanner Linsley’s Redact
(15:19) - TMiR has a new website!
(16:31) - Sponsored by Cloudways Velocity
(17:32) - Main content
(17:34) - React 19.3 is out!
(17:45) - View Transition support
(18:43) - Fragment Refs
(19:43) - `use(browser())` API
(21:30) - Oops bundle is bigger
(22:37) - bundlejs.org
(23:52) - React Devtools 8.0
(25:25) - "React Now Rusted All The Way Out"
(26:10) - React concurrent store prototyping???
(27:23) - A eulogy for the software engineer | Dave Kiss
(30:42) - We are all product engineers now | Laurie Voss
(41:25) - "Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?" | Brooks Lybrand
(41:50) - "How do you care when nobody else does?" | François Best
(42:23) - “What motivates you to build software for others anymore?” | Sebastien Lorber
(46:04) - AI Contribution Policies
(56:05) - Lightning rounds
(56:07) - Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Laurie Voss
(59:19) - Agent hacking swarms
(59:48) - Schema Benchmarks 7 month update
(01:00:37) - State of Devs 2026
(01:02:50) - some quick misc thoughts about why MCP is so much better than CLIs | Rhys Sullivan
(01:05:43) - The Grand Unifying Architecture of Frontend | Ryan Carniato
(01:06:52) - Simon Willison: 2026 in LLMs So Far
(01:07:35) - Shopify switching from React Native to native apps
(01:08:07) - Discord migrated to RN New Architecture
(01:08:31) - Conferences (React, Javascript)
(01:08:34) - React India, Oct 30
(01:08:43) - React Summit NY, Nov 17
(01:08:49) - React Day Berlin, Dec 4
28 Aug 2026
TMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?
Transcript and URLs (https://www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/tmir-2026-08) 𐄁 Creators & Guests
Mark Erikson (https://tmir.transistor.fm/people/mark-erikson) - Host
Carl Vitullo (https://tmir.transistor.fm/people/carl-vitullo) - Producer
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(00:00) - tmir-2026-08
(00:55) - New releases
(01:02) - Waku 1.0 (RC)
(03:01) - Preact 11.0.0-rc.1
(03:56) - Mobx 7.0
(04:32) - Next 16.3
(06:55) - React Native 0.87
(07:47) - TanStack Table 9
(09:25) - TC39 “Composites” proposal (~ replaces Records and Tuples)
(10:44) - Solid 2.0 RC
(13:39) - Bun 1.4
(17:18) - Github stacked PRs in public preview
(21:38) - Main Content
(21:42) - React core-ish
(21:49) - New ReactDOM `use(browser())` API
(22:47) - React Foundation website updated
(23:18) - Big Next.js AMA in /r/reactjs
(23:49) - React Compiler support in OXC
(25:21) - Biome and Bun 1.4 have initial support as well
(25:45) - The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
(32:36) - Scott Tolinski’s “True Cost of AI Coding” survey and video
(37:51) - Josh Goldberg stepped back from OSS work
(40:53) - Software Stewardship Lab announced (Daniel Roe et al)
(42:11) - Humanity in OSS
(46:47) - Cursor switched from Solid to React
(47:46) - Lovable moved off Next to TanStack Start
(49:00) - Ryan Carniato’s async Solid articles
(49:33) - Slew of Github competitors: Tangled, Cloudflare Artifacts, Netlify Source, Cursor Origin
(55:55) - Git at Any Scale
(57:14) - Lightning round
(57:16) - npm.report
(57:51) - Supplier Security Questionnaire, Andrew Nesbitt
(58:58) - Everything I own, owned, Chaz Schlarp
(01:02:33) - The sorry state of Skill distribution
(01:03:46) - Conferences
(01:03:48) - ZurichJS Sep 11
(01:04:47) - React Alicante Sep 23-24
(01:05:09) - Outro
12 Aug 2026
TMIR July 2026: React-alikes, GOVERNANCE, and state management
Transcript and links (https://www.reactiflux.com/transcripts/tmir-2026-07) 𐄁 Creators & Guests
Mark Erikson (https://tmir.transistor.fm/people/mark-erikson) - Host
Carl Vitullo (https://tmir.transistor.fm/people/carl-vitullo) - Producer
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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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