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src/content/blog/2025/04/01/react-labs-what-we-have-been-working-on-april-2025.md

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-April 1, 2025 by [Ricky Hanlon](https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii), Lauren Tan, Mofei Zhang, Jordan Eldredge, Jack Pope, Matt Carroll
+April 1, 2025 by [Ricky Hanlon](https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii), and [Matt Carroll](https://twitter.com/mattcarrollcode).
 
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 <Intro>
 
-In React Labs posts we write about projects in active research and development. We’ve made significant progress since [React Conf](/blog/2024/05/22/react-conf-2024-recap), including releasing [React 19](/blog/2024/12/05/react-19) and the [React Compiler beta](/blog/2024/10/21/react-compiler-beta-release), and we’d like to share what we’re working on now.
+In React Labs posts we write about projects in active research and development. In this post, we're sharing two new experimental features that are ready to try today, and updates on other areas we're working on now.
 
 </Intro>
 
@@ -33,13 +33,11 @@ Today, we're excited to release docs for three new experimental features ready f
 
 We're also sharing updates on new features currently in development:
 - [React Performance Tracks](#react-performance-tracks)
+- [Compiler IDE Extension](#compiler-ide-extension)
 - [Automatic Effect Dependencies](#automatic-effect-dependencies)
 - [Fragment Refs](#fragment-refs)
-- [React Compiler](#react-compiler)
-- [IDE extension](#ide-extension)
 - [Concurrent stores](#concurrent-stores)
 
-
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 # New Experimental Features {/*new-experimental-features*/}
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 </Sandpack>
 
+---
+
 # Features in development {/*features-in-development*/}
 
 ## React Performance Tracks {/*react-performance-tracks*/}
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 Once we solve those issues, we'll publish experimental docs and share that it's ready to try.
 
+---
 
+## Compiler IDE Extension {/*compiler-ide-extension*/}
 
-## Compiler IDE Extension {/*ide-extension*/}
-
-This week [we shared](/TODO) the React Compiler release candidate, and we're working towards shipping the first semver stable version of the compiler in the coming months.
+Earlier this week [we shared](/blog/2025/04/21/react-compiler-rc) the React Compiler release candidate, and we're working towards shipping the first semver stable version of the compiler in the coming months.
 
 We've also begun exploring ways to use the React Compiler to provide information that can improve understanding and debugging your code. One idea we've started exploring is a new experimental LSP-based React IDE extension powered by React Compiler, similar to the extension used in [Lauren Tan's React Conf talk](https://conf2024.react.dev/talks/5).
 
 Our idea is that we can use the compiler's static analysis to provide more information, suggestions, and optimization opportunities directly in your IDE. For example, we can provide diagnostics for code breaking the Rules of React, hovers to show if components and hooks were optimized by the compiler, or a CodeLens to see [automatically inserted Effect dependencies](/#automatic-effect-dependencies).
 
 The IDE extension is still an early exploration, but we'll share our progress in future updates.
 
+---
+
 ## Automatic Effect Dependencies {/*automatic-effect-dependencies*/}
 
 When we released hooks, we had three motivations:
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 Our hope is that automatically inserting dependies is not only easier to write, but that it also makes them easier to understand by forcing you to think in terms of what the effect does, and not in component lifecycles. 
 
+---
+
 ## Fragment Refs {/*fragment-refs*/}
 
 Many DOM APIs like those for event management, positioning, and focus are difficult to compose when writing with React. This often leads developers to reach for Effects, managing multiple Refs, or APIs like `findDOMNode` (removed in React 19).
@@ -12959,6 +12963,8 @@ We are exploring adding refs to Fragments that would point to a group of DOM ele
 
 Fragment refs are still being researched. We'll share more when we're closer to having the final API finished.
 
+---
+
 ## Gesture Animations {/*gesture-animations*/}
 
 We're also researching ways to enhance View Transitions to support gesture animations such as swiping to open a menu, or scroll through a photo carosel. 
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 We have an approach we believe will work well, which may introduce a new API to trigger gesture transitions, but we're currently focused on shipping `<ViewTransition>` and re-visit gestures after it ships.
 
+---
+
 ## Concurrent stores {/*concurrent-stores*/}
 
 When we released React 18 with concurrent rendering, we also released `useSyncExternalStore` so external store libraries that did not use React state or context could [support concurrent rendering](https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/70) by forcing a sync render when the store is updated.
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-_TODO: Thanks_
+_TODO: Thanks to [Dan Abramov](https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov), [Lauren Tan](https://bsky.app/profile/no.lol), [Jack Pope](https://jackpope.me), [Jason Bonta](https://threads.net/someextent), [Jordan Brown](https://github.com/jbrown215), [Jordan Eldredge](https://bsky.app/profile/capt.dev), and [Mofei Zhang](https://threads.net/z_mofei) for reviewing this post.

src/content/blog/index.md

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 <BlogCard title="React Labs: What We've Been Working On – April 2025" date="April 1, 2025" url="/blog/2025/04/01/react-labs-what-we-have-been-working-on-april-2025">
 
-In React Labs posts we write about projects in active research and development. We’ve made significant progress since React Conf, including releasing React 19 and the React Compiler beta, and we’d like to share what we’re working on now.
+In React Labs posts we write about projects in active research and development. In this post, we're sharing two new experimental features that are ready to try today, and sharing other areas we're working on now.
 
 </BlogCard>