React Daily: Weekly Recap - Legacy Cleanup and Stability Improvements
React eliminated the legacy Paper renderer for React Native while fixing critical stability issues in Strict Mode and server-side rendering. The team also enhanced the ESLint plugin and improved error handling across multiple components.
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- Show: React Daily
- Published: 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M39S
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This is React Daily for the week of April 13th through 20th, 2026. 17 PRs merged, 17 additional commits this week.
Starting with major infrastructure changes. The React Native team completed a significant cleanup by removing the Paper legacy renderer entirely. This massive change deleted over 4,700 lines of code across 35 files, eliminating outdated Paper source files and backward-compatibility branches. The removal streamlines…
Moving to stability fixes. The team resolved critical issues with Strict Mode behavior. Effects are now properly double-invoked during hydration, ensuring consistency between createRoot and hydrateRoot. A similar fix addresses Fast Refresh scenarios where newly mounted components weren't triggering double Effect…
Server-side rendering received important fixes. The Fizz server now prevents reentrant task completion from calling completeAll multiple times, which was particularly problematic in Node.js environments. Additional reentrancy protections were added to guard against similar edge cases in task finishing.
The ESLint plugin for React Hooks saw two releases this week. Version 7.1.0 removed deprecated experimental rules, followed quickly by 7.1.1 which…
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