TWiR (This Week in React) is a weekly newsletter providing updates, announcements, and community highlights from the React programming language ecosystem. Covering topics such as new library releases, community events, and React-related news, TWiR offers insights for React developers and enthusiasts. Subscribers can stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the React community, discover new tools and projects, and engage with the vibrant React ecosystem through TWiR's weekly summaries.

This Week In React

The newsletter reflects on the growth and progress of the React-related newsletter, highlighting subscriber increases, new writers, and income growth in 2024. Goals for 2025 include adding guest writers and producing more substantive articles. It also features a variety of updates and resources on React and React Native development, including new releases and tutorials.

This Week In React #215: Dropdown, i18n, Next.js, Remix, Astro, shadcn, StyleX, Fancy Components, Expo, Static Hermes, Skia, ExecuTorch, Kotlin, Node, Shortest, Rolldown, Rspack, pnpm...

We initially planned to return on 8th January.
But here I am a little earlier, wishing you all a Happy New Year! 🎉
With the end-of-year festivities, it’s been a quiet week for React, as you’d expect.
I also take the opportunity to share a little newsletter retrospective, and thank you once again for reading the newsletter and making all this possible.
In 2024 the newsletter went from being a sustainable project to a break-even business. This allows me to invest more in the project and improve the content. Let’s share some concrete figures from 2023 to 2024 :
📈 Subscribers: 31k ➡️ 46k - A great +15k subscribers increase this year. Not exponential as I expected, but still very nice!
👥 Writers: 1 ➡️ 4 - I’m no longer the sole writer of this curation newsletter: Benedikt, Matthieu and Cyril have backed me up when I was unavailable.
📨 Issues: 38 ➡️ 47 - Onboarding other writers allowed us to send out an email almost every week!
💰 Income: 47k€ ➡️ 99k€ ARR - We are getting good as sales, and have successfully convinced most companies we wanted to work with to sponsor us.
💸 Charges: 15k€ ➡️ 36k€ - We have increased our charges significantly this year by onboarding guest newsletter writers (14k€). The other charges are ads (12k€), SaaS (7k€) and virtual assistants (3k€).
Overall I think it has been a great 2024 year, looking forward to a promising future. I didn’t reach my ambitious goal of 50k subscribers, but I’m not too far. After the summer, it became more challenging to grow, not sure why. I still reached another important symbolic milestone: having more newsletter subscribers than Twitter followers, becoming less dependent of social platforms.
In 2025, I’d like the newsletter to be more than just a list of curation emails. I plan to onboard guest writers, paying them to produce a series of articles on topics they are passionate about. If you think you’d be a great fit, reply and say hi! 👋
If you’d like to help me realize my plans, please share the newsletter with a friend or colleague who might enjoy it, or on any social platform.