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Yet Another React Lightbox — Works with React 16.8+, 17 and 18, supports numerous input methods, preloads images, supports video slides, zooming, and a high level of customization and there’s an online playground so you can see how it (sc)rolls. GitHub repo.

Reactylon: A React Framework for XR — A framework that builds upon Microsoft’s Babylon.js 3D engine and React to offer a way to create immersive extended reality experiences on the Web. Write 3D scenes in JSX and Reactylon makes them a (virtual) reality – the docs include numerous live demos with code. GitHub repo.

What Engineers Get Wrong About Communication — Learn and avoid mistakes like forgetting about your users and hoarding information.

🤖 react-native-ai: On-Device LLM Execution in React Native — Provides first-class compatibility with the Vercel AI SDK, allowing you to use familiar functions like streamText and generateText but with locally run models.

The Mega April React Labs Update — Every once in a while, the React team drops a ‘Labs’ post where they bring us up to speed with some major new features and what the team is working on. Here, we learn about two new features ready to try out today in react@experimental: View Transitions and the <Activity> component. There are several other features in...

Storybook 9 Beta — A strong step forward for the popular UI ‘frontend workshop’ with numerous experimental features from Storybook 8 becoming stable. v9 has a strong focus on component testing with interaction, visual, and accessibility testing out of the box. React Native support is another big win.

What Does 'use client' Do? — Dan continues his recent stream of insightful posts with a shorter, more practical look at how to think about the use client and use server directives React Server Components introduced and how they let you elegantly structure a client/server app as “a single program spanning two environments” – a concept that Dan thinks could easily outlive React and...

New Course: Next.js Fundamentals, v4 — Master Next.js with Scott Moss. Learn React Server Components, Server Actions, dynamic routing, authentication, caching, and edge functions. Create a modern React app, deploy it to Vercel, and level up your skills.

Frimousse: A Lightweight, Unstyled, and Composable Emoji Picker for React — The picker is accessible and won’t display any emojis that aren’t supported on the device. You can explore some demos here.

React Compiler Enters Release Candidate Stage — With a plan first unveiled in early 2024, React Compiler has been undergoing a lot of development since and is now here in a ‘stable and near-final’ form, pending a final release in the coming months. The team has also been collaborating with the swc project and experimental swc support is included as part of this release.

Impossible Components — Dan Abramov continues with his series of ‘big picture’ posts with a look at the idea of so-called ‘impossible’ components that mix server-only and client-only features and how React Server Components can help bridge that divide, culminating in an example you can experiment with for yourself.

Tailwind vs Linaria: A Performance Investigation — Linaria offers a way to write CSS directly in JS but get real CSS files at build-time.

Unbork Your Laravel App (Live) — Laravel is so in right now. Join us for a hands-on session using a demo app to track errors, replay sessions, trace slowdowns, and maybe even let the robots help. RSVP here.

Spectacle: Create Sleek React-Powered Presentations — A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code, add interactive elements, scrollable code blocks, graphics effects, and more.

React Three Map 1.0: Bring 3D Objects into 2D Maps — A bridge between React Three Fiber with react-map-gl that can result in intriguing results like this.

ChartDB: Open Source Database Schema Diagram Editor — Create a new schema from scratch or quickly import your existing one. Supports Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, and more, and is built using React. You can deploy it for yourself or try an online demo here. AGPL licensed.

Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. A lot to enjoy here!

Agent Hooks: Hooks That Bring Agents Into Your App — You could wire this sort of thing together yourself, but it provides an interesting abstraction.

react-photo-sphere-viewer: A Component to View Photo Spheres — This is one of those cases where a live demo is valuable. It’s basically a way to navigate specially-taken 360 degree photos (think Google Street View - kinda).

RedwoodJS Evolving into Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK — The full-stack React-based framework is shaking things up with the existing GraphQL-oriented framework becoming Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK being a more general app abstraction set to be explained properly in the coming weeks.

Creating an AI Chat Experience with React and OpenAI — If you’d rather create your own streaming chat UI for OpenAI’s models (such as for the new API-only GPT 4.1 models) Robin has some pointers for getting started.

Fastify + React – 7x Faster than Next.js? — Node’s Fastify framework has a mature plugin for Vite integration (explained in detail here), including @fastify/react which just hit version 1.0 and makes it easy to create fast, featureful (though obviously less so than Next.js) React apps atop Fastify. How fast? Very, it seems.

React Day: Free Online Event with Expert Talks on Modern React — Join Frontend Nation’s React Day on April 29 - a FREE online event with top experts like Kent C. Dodds, Tejas Kumar, & more. Get real-world insights into performance, UI for AI, & modern frontend techniques. Get your free ticket now.

JSX Over the Wire — Dan Abramov builds on last week’s epic React for Two Computers with thoughts on the evolution of passing data from server to client, contrasting traditional REST endpoints with a BFF approach that builds screen-specific ViewModels mirroring React’s component tree. An enjoyable train of thought for anyone interested in how and why client/server apps are organized the way they are...