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

Transcript and links 𐄁 Creators & Guests Mark Erikson - Host Carl Vitullo - Producer ★ Support this podcast ★ Reply on Bluesky (00:00) - This Month in React July 2026 (01:27) - New releases (01:29) - Vite+ Beta (02:41) - TypeScript 7.0 released (03:56) - Open PR for “content mappers” to typecheck templates other than JSX (04:57) - Johnson Chu made a compatibility layer to drop-in for unsupported tools (05:18) - OXC type-aware linting stable (06:00) - NPM v12 and new security defaults (07:00) - Dependabot supports a configurable delay (07:37) - More React RSC security tweaks for 19.x (08:06) - Main Content (08:07) - React org updates (08:22) - “Leadership Council” and Working Group structure on the new team page (11:11) - Stub governance docs for the Leadership Council (14:37) - Rick Hanlon update on the React team using a “stage” process internally (15:39) - Pete Hunt and Nick Schrock join Vercel to run Frameworks/Next and Agent DX (17:16) - Poimandres published a charter (20:20) - For instance, WebGL text rendering (21:30) - React-alikes (21:40) - Octane from Dominic Gannaway (28:27) - Ryan Carniato: "React’s staying power is because of complacency" (29:12) - “Do people think FE innovation is dead? (30:31) - Parallel articles on Solid 2.0 with async, and Remix 3 (32:22) - "no benchmark […] has captured the relationship between reactivity and rendering" (35:04) - ReactBench to measure AI code quality from Aidan Bai (36:37) - Alex Russell thinks everyone is screwing up state management (47:41) - Aurora Scharff rewrote the Suspense docs page to cover how it works (48:22) - And a post on RSC performance patterns (48:41) - TanStack removed RSCs from the website (51:04) - Mark is experimenting with perf improvements for RTK v3 (57:36) - Making referential stability a type (59:17) - Porffor native compiler upcoming alpha (59:39) - Perry cross-compiles Claude Code bundle (01:00:17) - Marker (01:02:04) - Goodbye, forever, probably. (01:08:41) - Conferences (01:08:53) - Sep 11: ZurichJS, Switzerland (01:09:14) - Sep 25-26: React Alicante, Spain