Plus Temporal is truly almost here, and some big Rspack, Vitest and React Native releases. |
🦖 ..and by no means should we forget Deno whose team have published a roundup of all of Deno's progress in the past year. |
| FlexGrid by Wijmo: The Industry-Leading JavaScript Datagrid — A fast and flexible DataGrid for building modern web apps. Key features and virtualized rendering are included in the core grid module. Pick & choose special features to keep your app small. Built for JavaScript, extended to Angular, React, and Vue. Wijmo From MESCIUS inc. |
| IN BRIEF: The creator of SolidJS says that Angular and Vue are the frameworks to watch in 2025, while reflecting on JS framework progress generally. A year ago, Kelly Sutton wrote about his company's move away from React but how did it pan out? In Moving On from React, a Year Later he explains how things have gone since. JSON Query is a neat, flexible JSON querying language. The demos really sell it IMHO. The ESLint project takes a look back at ESLint's 2024 year in review. GitHub has unveiled sub-issues, issue types, and advanced search for issues. |
| RELEASES: Rspack v1.2 – Fast Rust-based Web bundler adds a peristent cache feature that improves hot start performance by up to 250%. Node v23.6.1 (Current), v22.13.1 (LTS), v20.18.2 (LTS), v18.20.6 (LTS) to resolve some security vulnerabilities. Capacitor 7.0 – Build cross-platform native apps/PWAs with web technologies. React Native 0.77 – Now with enhanced styling capabilities. Vitest 3.0 – The fast Vite-native testing framework. NestJS 11, Storybook 8.5, Unpic 1.0, Inferno 9.0 |
| Avoiding anys with Linting and TypeScript — any is TypeScript’s famous type fallback/safety hatch but if you can avoid it, you can benefit more from TypeScript’s type-checking features. Josh shares some tips to do just that. Josh Goldberg |
| 🤖 Running Inference in Web Extensions — Firefox Nightly is shipping with a new API that can let you use their AI runtime for offline machine learning tasks in Web extensions you create. It uses the previously mentioned Transformers.js and is already used in Firefox 133 to provide alt text for images in PDFs. Tarek Ziadé (Mozilla) |
| SRCL: Build React Apps with 'Terminal Aesthetics' — The homepage is a live demonstration of what SRCL has to offer. It’s a suite of React components and styling to recreate a monospaced, terminal-like atmosphere Internet Development Studio Company |
| GoReleaser v2.6 – A popular 'release engineering' tool in the Go world has just added support for Bun and Deno. React Admin 5.5 – Framework for building B2B frontend interfaces. Now with React 19 and React Router 7 support. React Scan 0.1 – Automatically scan for performance issues and eliminate slow renders in your app. 🎵 ChordSheetJS 12.0 – Library for parsing and formatting chords and chord sheets. (Demo.) Fortune Sheet 1.0 – Drop-in Excel-like spreadsheet control. ApexCharts 4.4 – Popular JS charting library. (Demos.) YouTube.js 13.0 – JS client for YouTube's private API. BlockNote 0.23 – 'Notion-style' block-based editor. |
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