Rspack 1.0: The Rust-Powered JavaScript Bundler — Far from being ‘yet another bundler’ with its own approach and terminology to learn, Rspack prides itself on being webpack API and ecosystem compatible, while offering many times the performance. The team now considers it production ready and encourages you to try your webpack-based projects on it.

Rspack Contributors

Front-End System Design — Learn to create scalable, efficient user interfaces in this extensive video course by Evgennii Ray. Explore the box model, browser rendering, DOM manipulation, state management, performance and much more.

Frontend Masters sponsor

How to Create an NPM Package in 2024 — Sounds simple, but there are a lot of steps involved if you want to follow best practices, introduce useful tools, and get things just right. Matt Pocock walks through the process here, and there’s a 14-minute screencast too, if you’d prefer to watch along.

Matt Pocock

JS Dates are About to Be Fixed — Handling dates and times is famously a painful area for programmers and JavaScript hasn’t done a lot to make it easier. Libraries like Moment.js help a lot, but Iago looks at how the Temporal proposal and its features will begin to help a lot more over time.

Iago Lastra

Weekly Chats on the Art and Practice of Programming — Your home for weekly conversations with fascinating guests about how technology is made and where it’s headed.

The Stack Overflow Podcast sponsor

JavaScript Generators Explained — Jan was frustrated by the quality of documentation and articles explaining generators in JavaScript, and set out to explain things in a way that a more advanced developer could appreciate.

Jan Hesters

Implementing a React-a-Like from Scratch — While it's unlikely you'll actually want to do this, at least thinking about it can prove instructive as to what’s going on in React’s engine room.

Robby Pruzan

Learn Role-Based Access Control and Simplify Permissions Management — Enhance security and streamline access by managing user roles with Clerk Organizations.

Clerk sponsor

TypeScript 5.6 Release Candidate — As always, Daniel presents an epic roundup of what’s new. We’ll focus more on it next week though, as the final release is anticipated to land next Tuesday (September 3).

Daniel Rosenwasser (Microsoft)

Vuestic UI 1.10: A Vue.js 3.0 UI Framework — Features 60 customizable and responsive components and with the v1.10 release it’s gained a significant bundle size optimization, a custom compiler that improves build time performance, and other minor enhancements. GitHub repo.

Vuestic UI

✅ Bye Bye Bugs — Get 80% automated E2E test coverage for mobile and web apps in under 4 months with QA Wolf. With QA cycles complete in minutes (not days), bugs don’t stand a chance. Schedule a demo.

QA Wolf sponsor

Material UI v6: The Popular React UI Design/Component System — At ten years old, the popular design system has its latest major release. There's a focus on improved theming, color scheme management, container queries, and React 19 support. There are revamped templates to be inspired by, too.

García, Bittu, Andai, et al.

npm-check-updates 17.0: Update package.json Dependencies to Latest Versions — That is, as opposed to the specified versions. It includes a handy -i interactive mode so you can look at potential upgrades and then opt in to them one by one.

Raine Revere

Code Hike 1.0: Turn Markdown into Rich Interactive Experiences — Aimed at use cases like code walkthroughs and interactive docs, Code Hike bridges the gap between Markdown and React when creating technical content that takes full advantage of the modern web.

Rodrigo Pombo

Calendar.js: A Calendar Control with Drag and Drop — A responsive calendar with no dependencies, full drag and drop support (even between calendars), and many ways to manage events with recurring events, exporting, holidays, and more.

William Troup