---
title: "This Week In React #289: Base UI, shadcn, Vinext, Next.js WS, ChatGPT, Takumi, Shaders, Unlayer Elements"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-react-289-base-ui-shadcn-vinext-next-js-ws-chatgpt-takumi-shaders-unlayer-elem-fhvtt3z7q
source_url: https://thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/289
type: article
source: "This Week In React"
published: 2026-07-08T18:50:32.159Z
updated: 2026-07-09T06:21:11.296Z
tags: ["react", "typescript", "nextjs", "react-native", "shadcn"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 4
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# This Week In React #289: Base UI, shadcn, Vinext, Next.js WS, ChatGPT, Takumi, Shaders, Unlayer Elements

**[This Week In React](https://daily.dev/sources/twir)** · 10 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Weekly roundup covering React and React Native ecosystem news. Key highlights: Base UI becomes the default headless library in shadcn, replacing Radix; Vinext 1.0 Beta brings Next.js on Vite from Cloudflare; React Native 0.87 RC removes many deprecated APIs in a major cleanup; React Navigation 8 progress report introduces Suspense-enabled navigation and data loaders. TypeScript 7.0 officially launches with up to 16x faster type-checking via a Go port. ES2026 is officially approved by Ecma International, and HTTP gains a new QUERY method as an IETF Proposed Standard. Numerous library releases across both ecosystems are also covered.

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> This Week In React 289: Base UI, shadcn, Vinext, Next.js WS, ChatGPT, Takumi, Shaders, Unlayer Elements | RN cleanup, Navigation, Agents, Sniffler, Metro, Tapflow, ADK, Voltra, WebView, Iso, Audio | TypeScript, ES2026, HTTP QUERY, Node.js
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> Things are relatively calm on the React side this week, but it's still worth highlighting Base UI becoming the default headless lib in shadcn, and Vinext getting close to production-ready.
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