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Presentations: The State of React and the Community in 2025

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This is a post in the Presentations series.

Slides and video for my talk on how React has been developed and current concerns in the community

I spend a lot of time reading (and participating in) discussions in the React community, across many different sites. Over the last few years I've seen an increasing amount of frustration and concerns from the community, questions about the motivations and intent behind React's development, and a growing disconnect between how the React team wants React to be used, and how the ecosystem is using React in practice.

I've put together this talk to explain and clarify what I'm seeing argued about. My goal is to answer questions, provide background context and explanation, highlight places where I'm seeing disconnects, and hopefully point out ways that things can be improved going forward.

React Summit 2025 🔗︎

I first did this talk at React Summit in June 2025. Here's the slides:

The State of React and the Community in 2025 - slides 🔗︎

I'll link the video of that talk as soon as it's available.

I also got to participate in a follow-up panel discussion on "The State of React". I'll link the video of that panel once it's available as well.

More Details: "The State of React and the Community" Post 🔗︎

Along with the talk, I've published an extensive post on "The State of React and the Community in 2025". This post goes into further details on the same topics, including more background and explanations of the pain points and concerns.

Hopefully this adds more depth to the limited amount of material I was able to cover in the talk!

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