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TanStack DB in beta, Shopify Horizon open sourced, FlashList v2 out, Rozenite - new RN DevTools, Chakra MCP Server, Sentry, Liquid Glass in React Native, NitroImage 0.5

Hello React & ReactNative devs,

Last week was full of exciting developments. The major highlights include:

• TanStack DB is now in BETA.

• Shopify Horizon is now open source.

• FlashList v2 has been released.

• A new plugin framework for React Native DevTools - Rozenite — and many more updates.

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⚛️ All the Hot React Updates 🚀

1. TanStack DB is now in BETA! — the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query.

2. Shopify announced that Horizon is now open source. (Horizon, a new generation of first-party Shopify themes).

3. Chakra UI Launch Week has wrapped up, introducing the Chakra UI MCP Server, which connects the entire Chakra UI design system to your AI workflow, along with features like Copy as Markdown in the docs, one-click StackBlitz launches, and much more.

4. New release from Adobe React-spectrum, featuring support for async loading and infinite scrolling.

5. StorybookJS released storybook v9.1, featuring an improved upgrade command, auto-abort play functions on HMR, and many more.

6. ForesightJS released v3.3, now supports Full Touch Device Support!

7. StyleX released v0.15, introducing significant improvements to media query handling, dynamic styles optimization, and improvements to the linter, types, and documentation.

8. Ant Design just released antd@5.26.7, fixing the issue with cursor positioning.

9. Hayden Bleasel introduced the new shadcn Stories component in Kibo UI.

10. Eytan Seidman introduced the Next Gen Dev Platform, now in Early Access.

11. Raphaël released ReactRouter Hono server v2.17.0, adding support for Vite 7.

12. Dominik (@TkDodo) published a new Blog — The Useless useCallback

13. Waku v0.23.7 is out—fixes several bugs.

14. Zustand v5.0.7 has landed—now leveraging useCallback for smoother hook handling.

15. Frontend Masters published a new Blog — Liquid Glass on the Web 🚀

16. What's New in Astro - July 2025 Update Published.

17. TanStack Devtools is now in alpha—thanks to Alem Tuzlak’s hard work.

18. TanStack now uses Clerk for auth—a complete user management solution.

19. Pedro Martins has just dropped a detailed guide on — Generating Dynamic SEO Images with Vercel OG (Satori) for Tanstack Start, Astro & Laravel.

20. You can now debug code using Sentry MCP Server with Cursor AI—a detailed blog published.

21. Sentry just launched new issue detectors, featuring Large HTTP payloads, Consecutive HTTP requests & many more.

22. New Sentry blog published — Learn how to write evals (evaluation tests) that look and feel like regular unit tests.

23. Tobias Koppers introduced a PR with the Initial MCP implementation. Thanks to Seb for posting about it.

24. Want to give a talk at Next.js Conf this October? The call for proposals is now open.

25. Addressing Source Code Leaks Across the Ecosystem – A Retrospective — Blog published by Sapphi.

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⚛️ All the Hot React Native Updates

1. Mustafa Ali from Shopify announced FlashList v2 — a complete rewrite for New Architecture that's faster, more precise, and easier to use than ever.

2. Szymon Chmal just launched Rozenite—a plugin framework for React Native DevTools—now live in alpha! It features full TypeScript support, compatibility with Expo, React Native CLI, and RNEF, plus device-scoped panels. More tools coming soon: better network monitor, Redux DevTools, Re.Pack support, and more.

3. Catalin Miron dropped 7 new animations on animatereactnative.com.

4. Liquid Glass is now in React Native & Expo apps — just rebuild your apps with the latest Xcode Beta. The Callstack team is cooking up a liquid glass effect 🚀.

5. Nativewind has been accepted to Vercel ’s OSS (Open Source) program!

6. NitroImage 0.5.0 is now stable! It includes a full rewrite that separates NitroImage (core type) from NitroWebImage (web image loader), which means you can now use NitroImage as a dependency in other libraries to get instances of Image or use the Image type freely and type-safely.

7. React Native Version Bumper just launched! One-click version bumping + Git automation + platform sync + visual dashboard, all in VS Code!

8. The Callstack team introduced react-native-sandbox, which lets you run multiple instances of React Native. This means you can now build large-scale "super apps" by loading different application features as independent JavaScript bundles. — Sandbox (Link).

9. Mike (CTO & Founder at Callstack) published a detailed blog on On-Device Text Embeddings in React Native with the Apple NLP Framework.

10. Struggling with time zones in your React Native app? Check out Callstackio’s new timezone hermes fix, which just landed in React Native v0.80.2.

11. Time to say goodbye to legacy architecture in React Native.

12. Maciej fixed an annoying bug in React Native! — Dismissing a modal used to make the focus jump to the first element on the screen (Now solved) ✅.

13. Evan is building an agent to create stunning Expo Router apps and pinpoint the most impactful UI components to add.

14. Expo is hosting an official Expo event in a couple of weeks 💯.

15. Iwo Plaza ran WebGPU in the terminal 🚀

16. Rit3zh released expo-ios-popover-tip, an Expo module with native iOS Popover Tip via SwiftUI & TipKit.

17. New expressive loading indicators @rn-nui/loading-indicator released by Andrew Sidorchuk for React Native Android. iOS is still using ActivityIndicator.

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1. AI SDK 5 introduces type-safe AI chat in a fully revamped release—a game-changer.

2. Introducing Kiro, an all-new agentic IDE that has a chance to transform how developers build software.

3. New version of Cursor is out!

4. Claude Code (Command-line AI) is now super easy to use — install agents, commands, MCPs, and templates with a single command.

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🏕️ Extras You Shouldn’t Miss

1. Tailwind Plus has now vanilla JS support — which means every single UI block is now fully functional, interactive, and accessible.

2. Shopify introduced a new theme code editor.

3. Learn how to build an AI agent in 175 lines of Python.

4. TypeScript 5.9 is now available!

5. Use Claude Code as your Video Editor. Thariq published how you can do that.

6. Oskar wrote a Neovim plugin that smoothly integrates xcode-build-server into the editor.

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