🤔 The State of React in 2025

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🤔 The State of React and the Community in 2025
React in 2025 is still a giant, but it's no longer the comfortable go-to it once was. While React 19 brought big technical wins like Server Components and new hooks, the community's been split. Frustrations around framework favoritism, Vercel’s influence, and mixed messaging in docs have ignited debates about the direction of the ecosystem.

Despite this, React remains dominant, flexible, and deeply entrenched in modern web development. But how it evolves, and how transparently it communicates, will shape its long-term legacy.

🚢 Sail a boat through your project’s file system. Yes, really.
A developer with 6 years of React experience just dropped Gitlantis, a 3D VSCode extension built with React and Three.js. You sail a boat through an ocean where lighthouses and buoys represent your project's file system. Check out the Gitlantis web demo.

🔍 React Dev recreates Apple’s Liquid Glass Effect
Someone recreated Apple's "liquid glass" visual effect in React, and it looks stunning. The open-source project liquid-glass-react offers realistic refraction, edge highlights, and elastic motion, all customizable and easy to use. Perfect for adding that high-end Apple polish to your UI.
🔗 Check it out on GitHub

💾 Connect any React application to an MCP server in three lines of code
Connecting a React app to an MCP server now takes just three lines of code thanks to use-mcp. Open-sourced by Cloudflare, this hook handles transport, sessions, and OAuth out of the box. It powers tools like the AI Playground, making remote AI integrations incredibly easy for developers.

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🧠 AI & General Programming

🌩 Root Cause of the June 12, 2025 Google Cloud Outage
The root cause of the June 12 Google Cloud outage? A null pointer crash loop from a misconfigured policy deployed globally in seconds. A new quota check feature, launched without a feature flag or error handling, let a blank policy slip through, breaking binaries everywhere.

💸 I Don't Want to Pay a Subscription To Program
Rian Hunter captures a growing unease in the dev world: as LLMs become essential tools, should programming efficiency come with a monthly fee? He compares it to suddenly being charged to play piano or do carpentry, skills becoming paywalled tools.

🧠 The Grug Brained Developer: A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained
The Grug Brained Developer is a brutally honest, hilarious guide to surviving software development with humility and a good club. Grug warns of spirit demons like complexity, abstraction, and overzealous testing shamans. His mantra? "Keep it simple, say no often, and debug with logs and humor."

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