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PAPAFAM Newsletter #186

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Next.js 15.4 Released (and What's Coming in Next.js 16)

Version 15.4 delivers stability improvements, most notably for Turbopack builds. The announcement also provides a look at Next.js 16:

• Cache Components (beta): A new cacheComponents flag will unify all the experimental caching features like PPR and use cache
• Turbopack Builds (beta): Turbopack for production builds is officially hitting beta
• Optimized Client-Side Routing: faster App Router navigation, thanks to smarter prefetching and better caching
• DevTools & Debugging: More power for DevTools. You'll be able to inspect your route structure and forward browser logs directly to your terminal
• Node.js Middleware (stable): The moment we've all been waiting for. Full Node.js support in Middleware is finally stable
• Deployment Adapters (alpha): An early look at custom adapters that will give you more control to deploy your app to any target
• global-not-found.tsx: easily define a global 404 page

Adding .md URLs for Raw Markdown Content in Next.js

Explains how to let users access the raw markdown of your blog posts by appending .md to the URL.

Announcing Node-API Support for React Native

A huge development for React Native. By bringing Node’s native module system into React Native, many doors are opened for code-sharing between platforms, prebuilding native modules for faster build times, and using existing Node-API compatible modules in React Native for the first time.

How to Create an NPM Package in 2025

One of JavaScript’s most essential tasks, but one with numerous steps involved if you want to follow best practices, integrate useful tools, and get things just right. Matt Pocock rounds up the overall process here.

The History of React Through Code

An epic attempt charting React’s evolution from its origins at Facebook to what we know and use today. It sheds light on React’s core philosophies, the motivations behind major API and feature decisions, and how it solved real problems developers were facing. This will round out your thinking about React if you weren’t using it from the earliest days.

react-easy-crop: A Component for Interactive Image Cropping

Supports any image format (and even videos) along with dragging, zooming, and rotations. GitHub repo.

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Principles by Ray Dalio

One of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals...Read More