⚡️ The Latest In React 

🧵 JSX Over The Wire
This post explores a new way of thinking about how server data gets into React components. Instead of fetching JSON separately and wiring up props manually, what if your API just returned your components directly? It digs into the history, the tension between Models and ViewModels, and shows how "JSX over the wire" leads naturally to ideas behind React Server Components.

➡️ Switching from Axios to RTK Query
In a recent Reddit thread, a dev asked if switching from Axios and Redux to RTK Query could actually boost their React app’s load time. Tons of great advice rolled in. A Redux maintainer even chimed in: RTK Query won’t make your API calls faster, but it will majorly clean up your app’s logic, plus, you can ditch Axios since RTK Query has its own fetch system built-in.

🆓 Free React Components for Building Editor UIs
Tiptap UI Components is a modular set of MIT-licensed React pieces to help you build rich text editors way faster on top of the headless Tiptap framework. It even includes a CLI tool to scaffold or install components with zero config. Use them out-of-the-box, customize to match your design, or slot them into your existing setup, totally optional, fully composable, and built for speed.

🖼️ View Transition API and its Integration in NextJS
The View Transition API lets you animate page state changes natively, no third-party libraries needed, and Next.js just started experimenting with it. It’s early days, with minimal docs, but it’s already making complex page animations way simpler.

NOW LIVE: Master the Advanced React Patterns Top Developers Rely On

Design patterns are the backbone of robust software development. In React, they represent critical architectural strategies that solve complex problems developers face every day.

After years of professional experience, I've uncovered the key reason developers struggle: they're never shown how real-world, large-scale React applications are actually built.

That's why I've just launched a comprehensive course that reveals the exact advanced patterns senior developers rely on every day.

Forget disconnected examples. In this course, you'll learn how to architect scalable, maintainable React applications from start to finish. You’ll gain deep understanding and practical experience in:

What We'll Dive Into:

• End-to-end type safety with tRPC

• Advanced React Query optimization

• Custom navigation with Tanstack Router

• Secure authentication workflows

• Dynamic filtering techniques

• Advanced TypeScript best practices

• Modern UI design with Tailwind and shadcn/ui

By mastering these patterns, you won't just learn React, you'll gain the kind of deep, professional-level skills that senior developers and industry leaders recognize and value.

🧠 AI & General Programming

🎩 Traits of the Best Programmers
If you want to be a truly great developer, there’s no shortcut, it’s about doing the hard, often unglamorous work. Things like reading the reference docs, breaking down tough problems, and mastering your tools. This blog post does a great job of breaking down the traits that make the best programmers.

🎭️ Default styles for h1 elements are changing
Browsers are rolling out changes to default styles for nested section headings, and it might cause issues if your site relies on them. Developers should double-check their pages to avoid unexpected bugs and Lighthouse failures. This post covers what’s changing, how to catch problems, and tips for building better-structured sites.

🔥 Google launches Firebase Studio
Firebase is leveling up. At Google Cloud Next, they announced Firebase Studio, a new cloud-based, AI-powered development environment designed to speed up building and shipping production-quality apps. Powered by Gemini, Firebase Studio pulls together tools like Genkit, Project IDX, and more into a seamless, agentic experience. So far, the reviews have been pretty good.

Quick Links

• Building Reusable Components with React 19 Actions.

• React.js AI Chat with OpenAI API.

• This is why you're not shipping.

• OpenAI introduces GPT-4.1 in the API.

This Typescript Pattern Will Allow You To Build Anything in React

In my latest video, we'll explore a powerful TypeScript pattern that can help you build anything in React.

This approach makes your types reusable and composable, enabling you to create any kind of component, regardless of where your data comes from.

Check it out below. 👇️