Transformers.js 2.7: ML for the Web, Now with Text-to-Speech — Transformers.js provides access to machine learning models directly in the browser for all sorts of tasks and v2.7 introduces audio generation (live demo.) The Web Speech API remains the natural choice for this task for now, but the ML approach will only continue to offer greater opportunities over time.

Joshua Lochner

🔥  Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework — It’s a spicy opinion piece but I think Jake has earned the right after his fantastic posts on CRDTs in which he focused on using vanilla JS web components rather than a system like React. Here, he explains why.

Jake Lazaroff

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Yarn 4.0 Released — Starting life as an npm alternative that resolved several of its major pain points, Yarn remains a popular choice and v4 introduces a new ‘hardened mode’ to protect you from various security issues, boasts an improved constraints engine, and has performance (almost) on par with pnpm.

Maël Nison

Node v21.1 (Current) Released with ESM Detection Feature — “The new flag --experimental-detect-module can be used to automatically run ES modules when their syntax can be detected. … We hope to make detection enabled by default in a future version..”

Michaël Zasso

Svelte by Example: A Gentle Introduction — A succinct, gentle, and code-focused introduction to Svelte and SvelteKit.

Sebastian De Deyne

'Why I Won't Use Next.js' — From the perspective of web standards to concerns about increasing complexity, Kent C. Dodds shares his opinions on why he won’t use Next.js. It’s spicy and opinionated, but always thoughtful. (In other Kent news, he’s just launched Epic Web, his new full-stack webapp development course.)

Kent C. Dodds

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Goodbye, Node.js Buffer — Given Sindre's gigantic number of libraries, he could possibly migrate half the ecosystem solo.. 😏 but he sets out a case for discouraging the use of Buffer in favor of the cross-platform Uint8Array, and explains how to make the move.

Sindre Sorhus

Changing Colors in an SVG Element with CSS and JavaScript — Almost everything inside an inline SVG image is up for modification using CSS and JS.

Kirupa Chinnathambi

ES Module Imports in Node.js and the Browser — Just a quick example/handy recap of the basic setup.

Eli Bendersky

Radix Vue 1.0: Unstyled, Accessible Components for Vue.js — An unofficial Vue port of the popular Radix UI component library. GitHub repo.

zernonia et al.

React Magic Motion: Automagical Animation for Components — Built on top of Framer Motion so you get all of its features, but with opinionated, default transitions for child components.

Etesam Ansari

No-Code Machine Learning on the Simplest Development Platform ‑ Catalyst

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background-removal: Remove Image Backgrounds in JS — Wipe away backgrounds in both Node and the browser (so there’s a live demo) without relying on third party services. It does use a large pre-trained model to do this, however, and is GPL licensed, so your mileage may vary.

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Wireit: Makes npm/Yarn Scripts Smarter, More Efficient — Working with npm run and not replacing it, Wireit extends your scripts with features like result caching, parallelization, and re-running on changes.

Google

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