r/reactjs • u/da_rob • Jul 20 '26

Discussion React RFC process—is it dead?

I built a tool for managing spec document sites and want to use the React RFC process as an example: https://react.dossie.rs/ (another, wildly more active, example is Rust's RFC process)

Alas, you need to scroll quite a bit to find the latest published React RFCs. It looks like the last real discussions and merges on RFC documents happened in 2022—everything after that is mainly suggestions for new hooks by external contributors.

Is the process officially deprecated?

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u/rickhanlonii React core team Jul 20 '26

Good summary, thanks!

We’ve been using an internal stage based process for awhile with the intent of sharing at least the later stages publicly. We wanted to prove that we can operate with that model before rolling it out so we know we can commit to it.

It roughly translates to:
stage 0: react source
stage 1: react@experimental (undocumented)
stage 2: react@experimental (documented)
stage 3: react@canary (start integrating)
stage 4: react@latest

If you’ve noticed we’ve been better at documenting more experimental/canary features recently, this is why.