Weekly roundup covering React and React Native ecosystem news. React highlights include Octane, a compiled React-compatible framework from the creator of Inferno, TanStack dropping RSC in favor of SSR with new lightweight markdown/highlight libraries, and a StableRef type system approach for referential stability. React Native news covers RN Workers 1.0 Alpha for real multithreading via separate Hermes runtimes, WebGPU/Skia integration for zero-copy interop, RN Screens 5.0 Alpha rewrite for React Navigation v8, VisionCamera 5.2, backgroundImage stabilization in RN 0.87, and SafeAreaView improvements. Other highlights: TC39 proposals advancing (Promise.allKeyed, Error.code, import defer), npm publish-time malware scanning, Core Web Vitals measuring SPA soft navigations in Chrome 151, Playwright 1.62, and Webpack 5.109 with built-in CSS/HTML/TypeScript support.
