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Introducing the React Foundation

Over the years, concerns have arisen over who ‘owns/controls’ React, what might happen if that were to change, etc. It was announced at React Conf 2025 that control of React and React Native will be moved from Meta to an independent foundation, backed initially by several corporate members including Amazon, Expo, Meta, and Microsoft.

The Birth of Prettier

The author takes us back ten years to the genesis of Prettier, the popular opinionated, deterministic code formatter he co-created with James Long. Prettier effectively introduced and popularized the practice of fully-automated AST-based code formatting in the JavaScript ecosystem.

The History of Core Web Vitals

Addy tells the story behind Core Web Vitals, a popular set of metrics for measuring Web performance and its impact on user experience.

React Frameworks and Server-Side Features: Beyond Client-Side Rendering 

Covers newer React patterns like Server Components and Server Functions, showing how they move work to the server, cut down client JavaScript, and provide safer, simpler ways to fetch data or run server logic from client components

15 Recent Node.js Features That Can Replace Popular npm Packages

Many features that once required third-party packages are now built into the runtime itself.

mochi-motion 

An animation library built on top of Framer Motion that gives you smooth, spring-based scroll animations

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