r/reactjs • • Mar 15 '26

Meta Announcement: Requesting Community Feedback on Sub Content Changes

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We've had multiple complaints lately about the rapid decline in post quality for this sub.

We're opening up this thread to discuss some potential planned changes to our posting rules, with a goal of making the sub more useful.

Mod Background

Hi! I'm acemarke. I've been the only fully active mod for /r/reactjs for a few years now. I'm also a long-standing admin of the Reactiflux Discord, the primary Redux maintainer, and general answerer of questions around React and its ecosystem.

You don't see most of the work I do, because most of it is nuking posts that are either obvious spam / low quality / off-topic.

I also do this in my spare time. I read this sub a lot anyways, so it's easy for me to just say "nope, goodbye", and remove posts. But also, I have a day job, something resembling a life, and definitely need sleep :) So there's only so much I can do in terms of skimming posts and trying to clean things up. Even more than that: as much as I have a well-deserved reputation for popping into threads when someone mentions Redux, I can only read so many threads myself due to time and potential interest.

/u/vcarl has also been a mod for the last couple years, but is less active.

What Content Should We Support?

The primary issue is: what posts and content qualifies as "on-topic" for /r/reactjs?.

We've generally tried to keep the sub focused on technical discussion of using React and its ecosystem. That includes discussions about React itself, libraries, tools, and more. And, since we build things with React, it naturally included people posting projects they'd built.

The various mods over the years have tried to put together guidelines on what qualifies as acceptable content, as seen in the sidebar. As seen in the current rules, our focus has been on behavior. We've tried to encourage civil and constructive discussion.

The actual rules on content currently are:

  • Demos should include source code
  • "Portfolios" are limited to Sundays
  • Posts should be from people, not just AI copy-paste
  • The sub is focused on technical discussions of React, not career topics
  • No commercial posts

But the line is so blurry here. Clearly a discussion of a React API or ecosystem library is on topic, and historically project posts have been too. But where's the line here? Should a first todo list be on-topic? An Instagram clone? Another personal project? Is it okay to post just the project live URL itself, or does it need to have a repo posted too? What about projects that aren't OSS? Where's the line between "here's a thing I made" and blatant abuse of the sub as a tool for self-promotion? We've already limited "portfolio posts" to Sundays - is it only a portfolio if the word "portfolio" is in the submission title? Does a random personal project count as a portfolio? Where do we draw these lines? What's actually valuable for this sub?

Meanwhile, there's also been constant repetition of the same questions. This occurs in every long-running community, all the way back to the days of the early Internet. It's why FAQ pages were invented. The same topics keep coming up, new users ask questions that have been asked dozens of times before. Just try searching for how many times "Context vs Redux vs Zustand vs Mobx" have been debated in /r/reactjs :)

Finally, there's basic code help questions. We previously had a monthly "Code Questions / Beginner's Thread", and tried to redirect direct "how do I make this code work?" questions there. That thread stopped getting any usage, so we stopped making it.

Current Problems

Moderation is fundamentally a numbers problem. There's only so many human moderators available, and moderation requires judgment calls, but those judgment calls require time and attention - far more time and attention than we have.

We've seen a massive uptick in project-related posts. Not surprising, giving the rise of AI and vibe-coding. It's great that people are building things. But seeing an endless flood of "I got tired of X, so I built $PROJECT" or "I built yet another $Y" posts has made the sub much lower-signal and less useful.

So, we either:

  • Blanket allow all project posts
  • Require all project posts to be approved first somehow
  • Auto-mod anything that looks like a project post
  • Or change how projects get posted

(Worth noting that we actually just made the Reactiflux Discord approval-only to join to cut down on spam as well, and are having similar discussions on what changes we should consider to make it a more valuable community and resource.)

Planned Changes

So far, here's what we've got in mind to improve the situation.

First, we've brought in /u/Krossfireo as an additional mod. They've been a longstanding mod in the Reactiflux Discord and have experience dealing with AutoMod-style tools.

Second: we plan to limit all app-style project posts to a weekly megathread. The intended guideline here is:

  • if it's something you would use while building an app, it stays main sub for now
  • if it's any kind of app you built, it goes in the megathread

We'll try putting this in place starting Sunday, March 22.

Community Feedback

We're looking for feedback on multiple things:

  • What kind of content should be on-topic for /r/reactjs? What would be most valuable to discuss and read?
  • Does the weekly megathread approach for organizing project-related posts seem like it will improve the quality of the sub?
  • What other improvements can we make to the sub? Rules, resources, etc

The flip side: We don't control what gets submitted! It's the community that submits posts and replies. If y'all want better content, write it and submit it! :) All we can do is try to weed out the spam and keep things on topic (and hopefully civilized).

The best thing the community can do is flag posts and comments with the "Report" tool. We do already have AutoMod set up to auto-remove any post or comment that has been flagged too many times. Y'all can help here :) Also, flagged items are visibly marked for us in the UI, so they stand out and give an indication that they should be looked at.

FWIW we're happy to discuss how we try to mod, what criteria we should have as a sub, and what our judgment is for particular posts.

It's a wild and crazy time to be a programmer. The programming world has always changed rapidly, and right now that pace of change is pretty dramatic :) Hopefully we can continue to find ways to keep /r/reactjs a useful community and resource!


r/reactjs • • Sep 10 '26

News React 19.3

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r/reactjs • • 15h ago

Show /r/reactjs Introducing TanStack Redact

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r/reactjs • • 1h ago

Needs Help I have to make a leitner system flash card app using React stack need advice on how to go about it

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How I can make a shuffle system witn leitner boxes on React?


r/reactjs • • 4h ago

Show /r/reactjs Built a real-time 3D Cyber Command Center with React and CesiumJS — handling state syncing across dynamic WebGL layers

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Hey everyone,

I built an interactive 3D tactical command center using React and CesiumJS to track real-time global telemetry feeds.

Key React implementation details:

• Canvas & WebGL Integration: Synced Cesium's render loop with React state without triggering unnecessary re-renders during high-frequency telemetry updates.

• Custom Hooks: Encapsulated live ADS-B flight feeds, orbital satellite calculations (SGP4), and threat feeds into dedicated streaming hooks.

• Performance: Avoided standard React DOM nodes for map markers; batched updates directly into Cesium primitive collections to maintain a smooth 60 FPS.

• Dynamic Telemetry: Global fiber optic lines, data centers, and live GNSS interference zones rendered dynamically.

Looking for feedback on React state management patterns when handling high-frequency WebGL data streams!

(Live demo link added in the comments below)


r/reactjs • • 16h ago

News Wasp web framework v1.0 is coming: the roadmap and what changes

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r/reactjs • • 14h ago

Show /r/reactjs Build a functioning component to edit and save real Excel files

2 Upvotes

I was building a web app and wanted Excel files to live within it and be fully modifiable / saveable, but couldn't find anything open source that fully fit the bill. I ended up building the repo below.

Basically full Excel functionality in our React app including:

  • Import .xlsx and csv file, export to .xlsx
  • Fully preserves existing Excel formatting
  • Real-time calc that's a heavily modified fork of ironcacl
  • Formulas and calculations
  • Multiple worksheets
  • All the formatting options you'd use on day-to-day basis
  • Fully open source

https://github.com/pixelsmasher13/gridpath. Please let me know if you end up trying it out.


r/reactjs • • 15h ago

Arrivo: loading states for React that play where your content will land, then hand the real elements back

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Skeleton screens always felt like a guess to me: grey bars in roughly the right shape, then the real content pops in somewhere slightly different.

So I built Arrivo. While loading is true, an effect plays exactly where your content will land. When it turns false, the real elements are revealed in place.

Demo : https://tuancuongpham.github.io/arrivo/ 

Code: https://github.com/tuancuongpham/arrivo

npm i u/brottin/arrivo

import { Reveal } from '@brottin/arrivo';

import { halftone } from '@brottin/arrivo/effects';

<Reveal effect={halftone} loading={isLoading}>

  <ArticleCard post={post} />

</Reveal>

How it works:

  • Your content stays in the DOM, hidden with visibility, so nothing shifts when it lands.
  • Each wrapper gets one canvas overlay. Text lines are measured with Range rects and images are read from the page, so the effect draws the real shape of your content instead of a guess.
  • An effect is two draw functions, idle() and reveal(p). One shared requestAnimationFrame loop drives every instance, off-screen ones pause, and reduced motion turns every reveal into a 150 ms fade.
  • Zero runtime dependencies, about 8.5 KB gzipped for the core and 0.7 to 3.4 KB per effect, tree-shaken.

The 13 effects: split-flap, redacted, quadtree mosaic, CMYK halftone, CRT tune-in, ink (with 8 threshold maps), particle swarm, darkroom, Tetris, fuse (with a Lunar New Year mode), equalizer, thermal and snowfall.

It's 0.1.0, so feedback is very welcome, especially on where you'd actually use something like this and where it would be too much.


r/reactjs • • 17h ago

News I'm building Pimolu UI, a React component library, would love your feedback!

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Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on Pimolu UI, an open-source React component library focused on clean design, customization, and smooth interactions.

I wanted to share my first motion showcase, featuring some of the components, their interactions, and examples of interfaces you can build with them.

My goal is to make building modern, consistent UIs easier while keeping components flexible and developer-friendly.

This is still a work in progress, and I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts!

  • What do you think of the design and animations?
  • Is there anything you'd improve?
  • What would make you consider using a new UI library?

🌐 Website: https://pimolu.com

Any feedback is appreciated! 🚀


r/reactjs • • 1d ago

Show /r/reactjs 3 new components. 4 distinct styles. One more reason to make the web less boring. ✨

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Just added 3 new components to Ovio, bringing the collection to 20 animated React components. Each available in 4 styles: Minimal, Craft, Retro, and Toy.

Built on the shadcn registry model, Ovio is for developers who want their websites to feel a little less ordinary, with motion and interactions that go beyond the usual UI.

The motion layer for developer websites.

Explore Ovio → https://ovioui.vercel.app


r/reactjs • • 1d ago

Resource I built a Redux Toolkit inspired state management library from scratch

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I recently created a complete tutorial where I build a Redux Toolkit-inspired state management library from scratch using React and JavaScript.

The goal is to understand how Redux-style state management works internally instead of only using the package.

In the tutorial, I implement:

  • A custom createStore function
  • Store Provider
  • Reducers and actions
  • Subscribers and listeners
  • useSyncExternalStore
  • useSelector and custom store hooks
  • Redux DevTools integration
  • createSlice
  • combineReducers
  • shallowEqual
  • Thunk functionality
  • Final testing and debugging

YouTube tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucUJ-5COjg

I would appreciate feedback from the community, especially on the library design, API structure, and any improvements that could make this project more reliable or easier to use.

Please note: this is an educational project designed to understand Redux and state management concepts internally. It is not intended to replace the official Redux Toolkit.


r/reactjs • • 2d ago

Needs Help I really need some pointers

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I read a few books on JavaScript and coding in general

This was in late 2025 and a few months later I started writing react js,
Ai has gotten so good at writing code, it is way better than I am.

I have pretty okay fundamentals of coding that I have been able to spin up some interesting projects with Ai.

But if you ask me what some parts of the code does, I have very little idea about it.

How can I catch up with so many years old coding experience and survive in this field if Ai learns 20x faster.


r/reactjs • • 2d ago

Needs Help Please help me understand Zod schema transformations

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r/reactjs • • 2d ago

I've been working on a canvas-powered timeline library for React, Vue and TypeScript

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r/reactjs • • 2d ago

I made a small headless library for handling form submissions in React / Next.js

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Hey everyone,

I kept writing the same code for every form in my projects: react-hook-form setup, a try/catch around the server action, mapping server errors back onto the fields, a loading state, stopping double submits, a toast, refreshing the data, resetting the form... and doing it again for every add/edit/delete dialog.

So I pulled all of that into a small package called **submitly**.

It’s headless, so it doesn’t render anything. You keep your own components (shadcn, Radix, Base UI, plain inputs, whatever you use).

What it does:

* `useCrudForm`: react-hook-form + schema validation + your action in one hook

* Works with any Standard Schema library: Zod 3/4, Valibot, ArkType

* Server errors get mapped to the right fields automatically (nested ones like [`items.0.name`](http://items.0.name) too)

* Ignores double submits while a request is in flight

* Locks the dialog while saving, so the user can’t close it halfway through a request

* `useCrudAction` for delete/toggle buttons, with the same behavior

* One provider where you plug in your own toast, router and refresh logic

* Next.js helpers: `runAction` for server actions (validates again on the server, revalidates on success, turns thrown errors into a clean result), and it handles `redirect()` from server actions properly

* Also works in plain React + Vite (there’s an example with React Router + TanStack Query)

* Around 3 kB gzipped, typed end to end, tested on React 18 and 19

Quick example:

const { form, onSubmit, isSubmitting } = useCrudForm({

schema,

defaultValues: { name: "" },

action: createProduct,

onSuccess: () => closeDialog(),

});

It’s still early (0.x), so I’d really like feedback: what’s missing, what’s confusing, or what you’d do differently.

Docs: https://submitly-docs.vercel.app

GitHub: https://github.com/toony10/submitly

If you find it useful, a star on GitHub would mean a lot. Thanks for reading 🙏


r/reactjs • • 2d ago

Needs Help Web Application Hosting (React)

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Hello. Does anyone know how to host a web application built with React—both the frontend and the backend?


r/reactjs • • 2d ago

I made a small headless library for handling form submissions in React / Next.js

0 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I kept writing the same code for every form in my projects: react-hook-form setup, a try/catch around the server action, mapping server errors back onto the fields, a loading state, stopping double submits, a toast, refreshing the data, resetting the form... and doing it again for every add/edit/delete dialog.

So I pulled all of that into a small package called submitly.

It’s headless, so it doesn’t render anything. You keep your own components (shadcn, Radix, Base UI, plain inputs, whatever you use).

What it does:

  • useCrudForm: react-hook-form + schema validation + your action in one hook
  • Works with any Standard Schema library: Zod 3/4, Valibot, ArkType
  • Server errors get mapped to the right fields automatically (nested ones like items.0.name too)
  • Ignores double submits while a request is in flight
  • Locks the dialog while saving, so the user can’t close it halfway through a request
  • useCrudAction for delete/toggle buttons, with the same behavior
  • One provider where you plug in your own toast, router and refresh logic
  • Next.js helpers: runAction for server actions (validates again on the server, revalidates on success, turns thrown errors into a clean result), and it handles redirect() from server actions properly
  • Also works in plain React + Vite (there’s an example with React Router + TanStack Query)
  • Around 3 kB gzipped, typed end to end, tested on React 18 and 19

Quick example:

const { form, onSubmit, isSubmitting } = useCrudForm({
  schema,
  defaultValues: { name: "" },
  action: createProduct,
  onSuccess: () => closeDialog(),
});

It’s still early (0.x), so I’d really like feedback: what’s missing, what’s confusing, or what you’d do differently.

Docs: https://submitly-docs.vercel.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/toony10/submitly

If you find it useful, a star on GitHub would mean a lot. Thanks for reading 🙏


r/reactjs • • 3d ago

News This Week In React #302: Next.js, React Router, DevTools, Security, shadcn, Hydrogen, Vinext, Mutative, R3F | RN 0.88, Expo 58, Navigation, FastImage, Screens, Device Hub, Edge to Edge | TypeScript, PHP, CrUX, Rsdoctor, Astro

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r/reactjs • • 3d ago

Show /r/reactjs Real-time two-player games on Firestore with no game server: how I did it and what I’m unsure about

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I built Honest Mailbox (my project, link at the bottom), a couples app with a draw-and-guess game, Four in a Row and card decks. All game logic is pure functions on the client, and security rules decide who can touch a game. Drawings are stored as compact strings on a 0–1000 grid, split into chunks so no single write gets big.

Open questions:

  • Each stroke is a separate Firestore write. Is that fine at two-user scale, or should I batch?
  • Is client-side scoring acceptable when both players are trusted partners?
  • Would you use rules-only access control for something like this?

r/reactjs • • 3d ago

Needs Help Invalid hook call error when using react-leaflet

4 Upvotes

Hello again everyone. I have been trying to using the react binding for the Leaflet API. I followed the documentation but I keep running into this error:

Invalid hook call. Hooks can only be called inside of the body of a function component. This could happen for one of the following reasons:
1. You might have mismatching versions of React and the renderer (such as React DOM)
2. You might be breaking the Rules of Hooks
3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app

This is my Map component. It is the child component of my main App component.

import { MapContainer, TileLayer, useMap, Marker, Popup } from 'react-leaflet'


function MyComponent() {
  const map = useMap();
  console.log('map center:', map.getCenter())
  return null;
}


const Map = () => {
    return ( <MapContainer center={[50.5, 30.5]} zoom={13}>
      <MyComponent />
    </MapContainer>);
}
 
export default Map;

I am not sure whether it has something to do with muddled dependencies because I am pretty sure I installed leaflet and leaflet react in the terminal

  "dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/dom": "^10.4.2",
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^6.9.1",
    "@testing-library/react": "^16.3.3",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
    "leaflet": "^1.9.4",
    "react": "^19.3.1",
    "react-dom": "^19.3.1",
    "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
    "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
  }

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.


r/reactjs • • 4d ago

Show /r/reactjs I built a free page-layout extension for TipTap: A4 pages, tables that split across pages, PDF export

11 Upvotes

I needed Word-style pages in a TipTap editor. The official Pages extension is a paid add-on, and the community ones I tried injected global CSS that broke my tables. So I wrote my own and open-sourced it.

Demo: https://text-editor-react-neon.vercel.app/ Repo (MIT): https://github.com/HuyPhan1232203/Text-editor-react npm: npm install tiptap-a4-pagination

How it works

  • It measures the top-level blocks and inserts spacer decorations where a block would cross the bottom of a page. The document is never modified, so getHTML() / getJSON() stay clean.
  • Tables split between rows, never inside a rowspan, and the header row repeats at the top of the next page.
  • Floated images (text wrapping) and CSS margin collapsing are handled.
  • The page-break math is a pure function, so it's unit tested.
  • About 5 KB gzipped, TipTap 3 only.

The full editor (React 19 + TipTap 3) also has

  • Google Docs paste that keeps headings, checklists, tables and indents
  • PDF export through the browser's print dialog (no server) that keeps the editor's page breaks and puts page numbers in the footer
  • Image resize and text wrap, KaTeX math (lazy-loaded), autosave to IndexedDB, optional real-time collaboration over WebRTC (?room=name)
  • Lighthouse: 100 on desktop

Known limitations

  • A single paragraph taller than the remaining space moves to the next page as a whole; it is never split.
  • A table row taller than a page overflows.

I'd love feedback on the API, and on documents that break the layout. Paste a long Google Doc or a big table into the demo to try it.


r/reactjs • • 4d ago

Show /r/reactjs describe-me – living component docs generated from the Vitest tests you already have

2 Upvotes

I've been building describe-me, a Vitest plugin plus a viewer that turns component tests into docs. It records the DOM after every render and interaction of a test and shows the frames as a browsable catalog: each describe is a group, each it a story, each step a frame. No story files, so the docs cannot drift from the component: if they would, the test fails.

Short demo (23 s): https://github.com/grzehub/describe-me#readme

What's new in 0.11:

Live: a link to a test mounts the component for real, in your project's own Vite, exactly as the test's arrange phase set it up. You click and type in it, and vi.fn() props show their calls.

Foundations: it reads the design system your tests load (CSS custom properties, Tailwind 4, shadcn/ui, Material UI, or a theme module) and shows the tokens, light and dark, with WCAG contrast of color pairs.

Works in browser mode and in jsdom, with Testing Library and user-event. React 18 and 19, Vitest 4 and 5. It's early and React-only for now; the Limitations page lists every known limit.

Try it in StackBlitz: https://stackblitz.com/github/grzehub/describe-me/tree/main/examples/stackblitz

Example viewers:
shadcn/ui: https://grzehub.github.io/describe-me/examples/shadcn/,
Material UI: https://grzehub.github.io/describe-me/examples/mui/

Docs: https://grzehub.github.io/describe-me/

The question I'd most like answers to: does "tests as the source of stories" fit how your team writes component tests, or do you keep states in tests that you'd never want in docs?


r/reactjs • • 4d ago

Resource I built a modern Electron boilerplate with React 19, TanStack Router, and Rust-powered tooling

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r/reactjs • • 4d ago

Discussion Next.js isr behaviour related confusion

2 Upvotes

I know next.js isr behaviour and how it basically does the caching etc but I just realised that next.js isr is cache control with proprietary swr api that refreshes the data.

Now, I am confused because I would like to know if the same thing can be manually done with react router with self managed cache control https header with rtk query. Rtk query has a window of 1 minutes after which it fires the revalidation or something like that, haven't gone into that details but must be possible in one way or another.


r/reactjs • • 5d ago

Discussion Is graftcode better version of gRPC or its more like Next.js or tRPC

5 Upvotes

Anyone? Any thoughts?