TMiR 2026-07: React-alikes, GOVERNANCE, and state management

  1. New releases
    1. Vite+ Beta
    2. TypeScript 7.0 released
    3. open PR for “content mappers” to integrate other language syntax
  2. Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools
    1. OXC type-aware linting stable
      1. NPM v12 and new security defaults
      2. Dependabot supports a configurable delay
      3. More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x
  3. Main Content
    1. React org updates
      1. “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page
      2. Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council
      3. Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally
      4. Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX
      5. Poimandres published a charter (original announcement)
        1. An example initiative
    2. React-alikes
    3. Octane from Dominic Gannaway
      1. Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency"
      2. Follow-up: “Do people think FE innovation is dead? Would explain why there’s resistance to move past old React.”
    4. Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3
    5. Cross-framework benchmark measuring reactivity
    6. Aiden Bai released ReactBench to measure AI code quality
      1. Alex Russell blasts “state management” (and most of the React ecosystem) in favor of sync engines
      2. Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works
      3. And a post on RSC performance patterns
    7. TanStack removed RSCs from the website
  4. Mark’s making progress on some React-Redux perf prototyping and thinking about RTK 3.0
    1. Making referential stability a type
    2. Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha
    3. Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle
    4. Vercel releases scriptc native compiler
    5. Goodbye, forever, probably.
  5. Conferences (React, Javascript)
    1. Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland
    2. Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain

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