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TMiR 2025-12: Year in review, React2Shell (RCE, DOS, SCE, oh my)

TMiR 2025-12: Year in review, React2Shell (RCE, DOS, SCE, oh my)

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Full transcript at ReactifluxMain ContentReact2Shell vulnerabilityInitial announcementFollowup denial-of-service CVE and source code exposure CVEVercel bulletinCloudflareCloudflare report on exploit attemptsCloudflare outage on December 5, 2025Tech analysis: “Flight Protocol”Vuln is carefully crafted Promise deserialization + `new Function` evalPRs: Initial fixes, Promise cycles / function toString, more Promise cyclesGuillermo’s breakdownShruti’s breakdownComms critique“React is rainbow colored (function types)”What does this mean for React and RSC adoption going forward?When I go back and look at react.dev now \[…\] it feels half-finishedReact Native year in reviewMore CSS supportExpo EAS hostingRN 0.78: React 19 supportLynx launchedRN 0.79: JSC moving to Community PackageRN 0.80: Freezing the legacy architectureRN 0.81: Android 16 support for edge to edge1.0 on the horizonVega OS launchedRN 0.82: Only new architectureExpo App AwardsRN 0.83: New Devtools - no breaking changesReact year in reviewCRA deprecation, new install docs (Vite\!)Styled Components DeprecatedReleases: 19.2 (Activity, useEffectEvent), Compiler 1.0Research: View Transitions canary, perf, concurrent stores, “throw a promise” deprecated (but not merged yet)“Async React” and the ecosystemReact FoundationReact growth skyrocketsReact Router RSC support, TanStack Start WIP RSC, WakuDan’s RSC explainers (he had a bunch of things to say)Remix v3 Jam recap (not React but relevant)Mark went from frustrated (CRA) to excited (ReactConf, foundation, team efforts)⚡ Lightning round ⚡TS 7 progress updateNPM classic tokens revokedGitHub Actions planned workGithub Action pricing change and immediate about-faceStacked diffs proposal in the works?Anthropic bought BunSVG Clickjacking from Lyra (SVG filters as logic gates??)Dan Abramov’s RSC Explorer: https://rscexplorer.dev/ , https://overreacted.io/introducing-rsc-explorer/Instant-loading Github repo explorer using RSCs: Without the blue barReact Router’s Take on RSCsHow AI Coding Agents hid a Timebomb in Our App(https://acusti.ca/blog/2025/12/16/react-compiler-silent-failures-and-how-to-fix-them/)Great history of web dev: 30 Years of TagsNadia Makarevich’s latest deep dive: Bundle Size InvestigationExtensive ES2026 feature previewReact reconciler for Blender 3DThe “why” of React FiberAsync React articles from Aurora Scharff and Jack Herrington
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