This Month in React

Transcript and show notes

TMiR on Bluesky

  • (00:00) - This Month in React - November Episode (SM)
  • (00:13) - Intro
  • (01:00) - New releases
  • (01:04) - [BetterAuth 1.4](https://www.better-auth.com/blog/1-4)
  • (02:47) - [Immer 11](https://github.com/immerjs/immer/releases/tag/v11.0.0), [RTK 2.11](https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/releases/tag/v2.11.0)
  • (06:00) - [Storybook 10](https://storybook.js.org/blog/storybook-10/)
  • (06:22) - [0.1 version of Remix team’s “event interaction” package](https://github.com/remix-run/remix/tree/main/packages/interaction)
  • (08:04) - Main content
  • (08:08) - [Ecosystem panel](https://gitnation.com/contents/panel-discussion-the-future-of-react-and-its-ecosystem) discussion of React Foundation at React Summit NY
  • (14:46) - React Concurrent Stores: [Polyfill](https://github.com/thejustinwalsh/react-concurrent-store), [React-Redux POC](https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/2263)
  • (17:52) - React Router and transition usage
  • (18:08) - [Matt Brophy and Ricky discussing nuances of behavior, use with React Router](https://github.com/reactwg/async-react/discussions/5)
  • (22:53) - [The State of TanStack, Two Years of Full-Time OSS](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-2-years)
  • (25:57) - [TanStack DB 0.5](https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-db-0.5-query-driven-sync)
  • (31:01) - [Tanner teasing a WIP TanStack Start RSC implementation](https://x.com/tannerlinsley/status/1983999424486633931)
  • (32:25) - State of the web ecosystem
  • (33:13) - [Cloudflare November outage postmortem](https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/)
  • (36:10) - ["What if people don't want to create things"](https://macwright.com/2025/10/21/what-if-they-dont-want-to.html)
  • (39:39) - [“When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?”](https://webtechnology.news/when-everyones-a-developer-how-do-we-promote-the-web-platform-over-react/)
  • (45:53) - Related, [“Dead Framework Theory”](https://aifoc.us/dead-framework-theory/) from last month
  • (48:12) - [Alex Russell’s latest stats on web devices and network budgets](https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/)
  • (51:48) - Npm attack, [Shai-Hulud round 2](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-hitting-zapier-ensdomains)
  • (52:06) - [Analysis of its evolution in code](https://www.aikido.dev/blog/bugs-in-shai-hulud-debugging-the-desert) from Sept
  • (55:23) - [Our plan for a more secure npm supply chain](https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/our-plan-for-a-more-secure-npm-supply-chain/) from September
  • (55:29) - [NPM update on token management changes](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-05-npm-security-update-classic-token-creation-disabled-and-granular-token-changes/)
  • (55:34) - ⚡ Lightning round ⚡
  • (55:38) - [TS 6.0 hopefully Feb 2026, 7.0 (native) soon after](https://bsky.app/profile/danr.bsky.social/post/3m5fz3vw2z22s) (more details in the [TypeScript.fm](https://share.transistor.fm/s/ad05eae6) podcast)
  • (56:03) - [Latest TC39 proposal updates](https://bsky.app/profile/robpalmer.bsky.social/post/3m62djhwj3k2i)
  • (56:32) - [Chrome (and other browsers) wants to remove XSLT from the web platform](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/CxL4gYZeSJA/m/yNs4EsD5AQAJ?pli=1)
  • (57:14) - [“Your URL is Your State”](https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html), and [David K’s “Goodbye, useState” talk](https://gitnation.com/contents/goodbye-usestate)
  • (57:46) - [Aiden Bai’s “React Grab” util](https://www.react-grab.com/)
  • (58:39) - [Creating a custom Node module loader to import from Bittorrent](https://evanhahn.com/node-torrent-import/)
  • (59:22) - [Ryan Carniato’s stream on researching “async signals”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ori9xZhvNlc)
  • (59:33) - [Details of building Node’s TS type stripping support](https://satanacchio.hashnode.dev/the-summer-i-shipped-type-stripping)
  • (59:58) - [The Web Animation Performance Tier List](https://motion.dev/blog/web-animation-performance-tier-list)
  • (01:00:14) - Conferences ([React](https://react.dev/community/conferences), [Javascript](https://confs.tech/javascript))
  • (01:00:22) - CFPs
  • (01:01:01) - [React Paris](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLICWs7vpK5fuMkZyJk4GyDtZBs08NMKJ0eIOOZBUxo98beQ/viewform) ([Also a community survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0pjOsMo0z3fvhv9EhgvUBWA4CdIcsivOCQi8wBmiNc_yXPQ/viewform))
  • (01:01:12) - [JSWorld](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfv3GuXwsDyR42XsvJwfFsN4SKjy8WvKtqYp_nEK0yhzVNP1g/viewform) CFP closes Dec 31, notifies by Feb 1
  • (01:01:18) - Ending

Creators and Guests

Host
Mark Erikson
An engineer maintaining Redux and Redux Toolkit, working at Replay.io to make smarter AI chat bots and debuggers using time travel.
Producer
Carl Vitullo
Solopreneur just vibing, posts are probably bullshit. Community lead at Reactiflux, the largest chat community of React professionals.

What is This Month in React?

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