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React Native v0.85 introduces a new Shared Animation backend, enhancing the animation capabilities of applications. Upcoming features like <ViewTransition> and Skia Graphite promise to further improve user experiences.

When you paste your perfectly formatted article and what happens? The headers show literal ## symbols. Bold text keeps the asterisks. Code blocks lose all formatting. Tables? They just break completely.

Next.js 16.2 comes with significant performance improvements, including a ~400% faster next dev startup and ~50% faster rendering thanks to a React core RSC contribution.

YouTube iframes can be pretty heavy, leading to a noticeable hit on load time and Core Web Vitals, especially LCP and CLS.

Annotate Image is a JavaScript image annotation library that creates Flickr-style comment annotations on images. You can draw rectangular regions on any image and attach interactive hotspots and notes to those regions. Version 2.0 is a complete TypeScript rewrite that works standalone with vanilla JavaScript or integrates with jQuery, React, and Vue. It's ideal for building photo galleries, design review tools, or any application requiring collaborative image markup.

When applications grow, state becomes messy, components break, and small changes ripple into unexpected bugs. This is where many learners realize that knowing React syntax is not the same as knowing how React applications are built.

Teams often use customer and user interchangeably until it breaks alignment. Here's how separating the two clarifies research, prioritization, and messaging across B2C, B2B, and B2B2C products.

By how much? Well, that would depend on the value of the <length> argument provided. Thomas Walichiewicz, who proposed :near(), suggests that it works like this: button:near(3rem) { /* Pointer is within 3rem of the button */ } For those wondering, yes, we can use the Pythagorean theorem to measure the straight-line distance between two elements using JavaScript ("Euclidean distance" is the mathematical term), so I imagine that's what would be used behind the scenes here.

Hi everyone! This week, we saw a lot of activity on X about the new AI skills system. Personally, what excited me most is the new Firefox release that unlocks interesting things for React developers. The React Native ecosystem is also super active, with many interesting releases. And I'm sure Expo 55 beta will drop just after we send our email 😅, so make sure to check their blog because it's coming soon. Don't miss the next email! As always, thanks for supporting us on your favorite platform:

Every embedded video comes with a real cost to page load performance. Each player loads extra resources, whether the user ever hits play or not, as Chris Coyier noted in his blog post on "YouTube Embeds are Bananas Heavy and it's Fixable". The approach of using in that article works well when the video appears further down on the page and loads outside of the initial viewport. If the video is directly in the initial viewport, it can still cause a cumulative layout shift (CLS).

Chris Coyier demonstrates how to maintain a video's state across different pages using CSS view transitions. He notes that this is fairly easy to do with same-page view transitions, but with multi-page view transitions you'll need to leverage JavaScript's pageswap event to save information about the video's state in sessionStorage as a JSON string (works with audio and iframes too), and then use that information to restore the state on pagereveal. Yes, there's a tiiiiny bit of audio stutter because we're technically faking it, but it's still super neat.