React Ecosystem Updates – August 2025: Next.js 15.4, React Native Node-API, TypeScript 5.9

🚀 React Updates

Next.js 15.4 Released

Next.js 15.4 brings major performance, stability, and Turbopack enhancements, paving the way for Next.js 16.

• Turbopack Ready – next build now passes all 8,298 tests; production-ready.

• Stability & Performance – Optimizations across Next.js and Turbopack.

• Next.js 16 Preview – Features like cacheComponents, Partial Prerendering (PPR), and improved App Router.

• New DevTools – Inspect routes, toggle loading components, forward logs to terminal for AI debugging.

• Deployment Adapters (Alpha) – Custom build/deploy targets support.

Other React Highlights:

• Remix 2.17 – Now in maintenance mode; create-remix redirects to create-react-router.

• React 19.1.1 – Stability-focused bugfix release.

• React Hook Form 7.61 – New compute prop for useWatch() hook.

• TanStack Router – Multiple updates, including selective SSR, Seroval-based serialization, and disableGlobalCatchBoundary.

• TanStack Query 5.82/5.83 – New mutationOptions for more flexible mutations.

• @vitejs/plugin-rsc – First-class React Server Components support in Vite.

• shadcn 2.8 – Local JSON import for components, themes, and hooks.

• React Email 4.1 – Separate preview server package.

📱 React Native Updates

Node-API Support

A community effort is adding Node.js’s Node-API to React Native:

• Cross-Platform Native Code – Integrate C, C++, Rust, Swift with RN.

• Hermes Integration (WIP) – Upstreaming Node-API support into Hermes.

• Prebuilt Native Modules – Faster builds, code sharing with Node.js, Deno, Bun.

Precompiled React Native for iOS in 0.81

• Build Times – RNTester builds are 10× faster, Expo Go sees ~37% speed-up.

• Opt-In – Enabled via RCT_USE_PREBUILT_RNCORE=1.

• Expo SDK 54 – Will default to precompiled RN.

Unistyles 3.0

• C++ Core – Built with Nitro Modules, avoiding re-renders.

• Scoped Themes & Variants – Powerful style system with Reanimated integration.

• Web Support – Custom parser without RN Web dependency.

Other RN News:

• Screens 4.13 – Native bottom tabs for Android & iOS.

• Reanimated 4 – Stable CSS-like declarative animations.

• Radon IDE 1.9 – Enterprise-level tooling improvements.

• React Native AI 0.2 – Apple Foundation Model enhancements.

⚙️ Node.js & Tooling Updates

• Node.js v24.4.0 – Latest current release with security patches coming soon.

• Metro 0.83 – Stability & performance improvements; requires Node 22.14.

• Bun v1.2.19 – pnpm-style isolated node_modules, interactive dependency updates.

• Deno 2.4 – Returns deno bundle, improved Node API support.

• Corepack 0.34 – Drops Node 18 & 23 support.

• Undici 7.12 – HTTP client improvements.

🔀 Ecosystem News

TypeScript 5.9 Released

• Simplified tsc --init – Modern defaults with module: "nodenext" and target: "esnext".

• import defer – Delays side effects until module is used.

• Stable Node.js Modules – New module node20 target.

Other Ecosystem Updates:

• Biome 2.1 – Faster scanner, better type inference.

• Astro 5.12 – TOML content loader support.

• Rspack 1.4.8 – Rust watcher improves HMR by ~10%.

• esbuild 0.25.6 – Better tree-shaking, CSS selector support.