๐จ Frontend Dev React Blog
React 19 Compiler ships stable โ no more manual memoization
The React compiler automatically memoizes components and hooks, eliminating `useMemo`, `useCallback`, and most `memo()` wrappers.
Every React codebase has performance bugs from missing memoization. The compiler fixes the entire class of problems.
๐จ Frontend Dev Tailwind Blog
Tailwind CSS v4 drops PostCSS, ships Oxide Vite engine
Tailwind v4 is rewritten in Rust (Oxide), moves configuration to CSS, and ships a first-party Vite plugin that is 10x faster.
Configuration-in-CSS is a fundamental DX improvement โ you stop context-switching between config and template files.
๐จ Frontend Dev Chrome Developers
View Transitions API Level 2 enables cross-document animations
Level 2 brings View Transitions to MPA navigation โ full-page transitions without a client-side router or JavaScript framework.
Native page transitions are the last missing piece that made SPAs feel necessary. Now MPAs can be just as smooth.