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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Aug 12

🚨 It’s here!

After a year in the making, the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course is officially LIVE! 🚀

Build & Ship Modern Production-ready apps with Next.js through 7+ real projects, 50+ interactive demos, quizzes & exercises

→ nextjscourse.dev

🎈 Use code LAUNCHPARTY to get 50% off (ends Friday!)

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 8h

I didn’t, thanks for letting me know! With other platforms penalizing us for using links I just kinda assumed that BlueSky would be the same

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 9h

Catch the full interview on my Youtube channel 🎥
dub.sh/dan-interview

Tech Experts Chat - YouTube

Catch me interview folks I truly admire in the Tech industry and learn from them.

dub.sh

Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 9h

I sat down with @danabra.mov, one of the core React team members since the early days

We talked about,
✔️ React Server Components and Modern React
✔️ the Next.js App Router
✔️ Burnout and how the React community has evolved - both technically & personally

I learned a lot & you will too

🎥 link below

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 15d

Amazing I'll be there!

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dan @danabra.mov · 17d

i think the @react.dev Compiler team could include more of this type of messaging. i'm being a bit inflammatory here (and Haskell may not the best analogy), but the principle of "pure things are safe to move around" is fundamentally simple and has been known for decades. teach it to new generation!

You may not like it, but React is basically Haskell.

The React Compiler works for the same exact reason that compilers for pure programming languages are able to make non-trivial optimizations.

If your code is composed of pure functions, it is safe to re-order their computation, or save the result for some inputs and reuse it for later for same inputs. This is not some kind of a “workaround” or a hack — it’s one of the most exciting consequences of the functional programming paradigm which has been known and used for decades.

Purity and idempotency make it safe to move stuff around without changing the final outcome. Following the "rules of React" is just ensuring your code is safe to move around like this.

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 20d

Full breakdown with the latest news is here:
dub.sh/react-19.2-...

🍿 Stop Infinite Re-renders with React 19.2 Feature

This week was huge for web dev 🚀. React 19.2 just landed with fixes for some of the most annoying bugs, Sonnet 4.5 dropped with major AI upgrades,...

dub.sh

Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 20d

React 19.2 useEffectEvent ✨

Ever add a handler inside an effect, put it in the dependency array & suddenly… re-renders forever?

That’s usually because your handler changes identity every render so the effect keeps tearing down & setting up again

useEffectEvent fixes this! 💪

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Dominik Sumer @dominiksumer.com · 25d

decided to revamp the auth pages a bit with this animated and interactive chart from the Vemetric dashboard ✌️

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 29d

Read the full issue here and make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out next week.

dub.sh/0qU6MDA

🍿 Underrated Caching Trick, My Next.js Conf Talk Reveal

I’ve got some fun news to share 🎉 I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the official Next.js Conf 💖. I’m one of the featured speak...

dub.sh

Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · 29d

Last week’s Snack: Underrated Caching Trick ⚡🍿

🚀 Cache Components in Next.js 16
🎨 Tailwind child selectors @DavidKPiano
🔥 @tan_stack Start v1 Release Candidate
⚡ ai-sdk-zustand → state mgmt + debugging for AI SDK @pontusab

One email. All the latest news + learn something new!

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dan @danabra.mov · Sep 26

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 27

It is still so funny 😂

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · Sep 27

It's been 5 years since this video ✨

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · Sep 25

Over on the second channel I sat down to chat with @theadminbar.com about WordPress! I haven't touched WordPress in almost a decade, so I had a lot of questions about how things have changed over the past 10 years... and of course, I had to ask about the drama

Full episode 👉 youtu.be/-DyeqFQILZ4

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · Sep 24

This Week In React 251 - By @tboba.pl & @piaskowyk.bsky.social

🍿 Read/subscribe: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/251

⚛️ React
- TanStack Start 1.0 RC
- React Router RSC
- React ESLint plugins
- Vite
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📱 RN
- Nitro Modules/Fetch
- Live Activity
- localStorage
- Workflows TestFlight

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · Sep 24

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

Whimsical Animations

Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 24

This snack was part of my Frontend Snacks 🍿 newsletter, a weekly roundup of frontend tips, tools, and news (in snack-sized form).

If you enjoyed this, you’ll love the full issue
→ dub.sh/underrated-... 🚀

🍿 Underrated Caching Trick, My Next.js Conf Talk Reveal

I’ve got some fun news to share 🎉 I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be speaking at the official Next.js Conf 💖. I’m one of the featured speak...

dub.sh

Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 24

Stop Refetching the Same Data 🍿

Why make your users wait for the same work again and again? That’s where "use cache" comes in.

Mark a route, component, or function as cacheable → repeat work is skipped, your app feels faster ⚡

Watch your TTFB drop with use-cache!

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 24

I'm buying for sure! Good luck Josh, I'm sure this launch will be massive as I love how you breakdown complex topics plus animations make everything very magical so folks would want to learn that!

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · Sep 24

This year, the State of JS survey is coming early!

Go take it now! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

State of JavaScript 2025

Take the State of JavaScript survey

survey.devographics.com

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 23

It's official!! 🥳

I'll be giving a talk at the official @nextjs Conf on October 22nd ✨

My topic is "Architecting and Scaling my Custom Course Platform on Next.js"

Can't wait and hope to see you there! If you'll be in SF, would love to hang so let me know :)

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 19

I just moved to Italy 🇮🇹

If you are in Italy or EU, let me know and would love to hang!

Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 10

These micro interactions are beautiful✨

Why bother with modals for confirmation when you can use inline real estate?

Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 9

P.S. Want to go deeper? This is just one of the concepts we explore hands-on in the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course where we build 7+ real-world apps and tackle performance, server components, caching, and more.

dub.sh/nextjs-full...

The Modern Full Stack Next.js Course

An online course that teaches you modern full-stack NextJS and how to build Production-Ready apps to take your web development skills to the next level.

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Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com · Sep 9

Stop Freezing Your UI 🍿

Imagine you go to a restaurant 👩‍🍳 a server comes to take your order but until your food is ready, you're frozen

That's the reality in your browser 😅

If you press a button, your entire UI freezes, unless you fix this, you won't be able to do anything.

Enter useTransition 👇

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