Catching up with React Summit US: Day 1

Today became a full rest + learning day thanks to betterment days that my company provides 3 days a year, and I spent it catching up with the all talks from React Summit US 2025: Day 1.

It turned into one of those rare days where you slow down but still feel creatively recharged.

A few themes stood out across the talks:

• The future of React is leaning heavily into compilers, cross-platform DOM, and React Server Components.

• Frameworks like TanStack Start and Redwood SDK are challenging the classic SSR/SPA split.

• DX vs UX conversations, and the realization that RSC shipped through frameworks, not React itself.

• New AI-powered workflows, from design-to-code pipelines to editor integrations, showing how quickly the tooling is evolving.

• Talks around why reading code still matters, and how AI accelerates execution but can never replace taste or intention.

• Design for one React idea was interesting, meaning that no context, syntax change but a unified format for React Web or for React Native as an example. I'm curious about it's practical usage.

A random but important discovery

Today I also learned something unexpectedly useful:

👉 You can toggle JavaScript enabled/disabled state easily using a Chrome extension.

Why do I care?
Because I’ve been wondering how oneweek.dev behaves especially for SEO but I was so lazy to priotize. And… surprise:

It’s not visible at all when JS is disabled.
Zero content.
Just a blank page.

Not great for a simple static site.

It should render without JavaScript, this happens because one layout uses use client at the top, I probably dragged a client component too high in the tree.

This means:

• crawlers with no JS → get nothing
• page preview tools → get nothing
• SEO → suffers quietly

I've quickly fixed it between sessions but I need to take a look further for our other websites.

More detailed notes will come later in a full blog post, but for today, this was exactly the reset I needed.

A quiet day of absorbing new ideas, thinking ahead, and getting inspired again. Tomorrow I will be able to watch the second day live.