React

React Now Rusted All The Way Out

Master.dev describes switching a 1,036-file React Router codebase from the Babel-based React Compiler to the new Rust-native version available via oxc, achieving a 17.6x speedup in the compiler phase and a 2.4x overall build improvement. The post also covers how to migrate using both the official Vite plugin and an alternative for React Router framework mode.

Blog post · React · Rust · Vite · JavaScript

The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development

Nolan Lawson surveys how AI coding agents are reshaping frontend web development, noting that prominent educators are stepping back, that frontend code is riskier to automate than database migrations, and that React's overrepresentation in training data is driving 'agent experience' to outweigh developer experience in framework selection decisions.

Opinion · Frontend Development · AI · Web Development · React