Plus bringing JavaScript to Unity, Tauri 2.0, and JavaScript's bundling story. |
VoidZero: A Next-Generation Toolchain for JavaScript — Not content to have merely created Vue.js and Vite, JavaScript powerhouse Evan You has unveiled his latest adventure: a $4.6m funded company building an open-source unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. With his track record, this is as good an attempt as it gets. Evan You |
Run GitHub Actions Up to 2x Faster at Half the Cost — Blacksmith runs your GitHub Actions substantially faster by running them on modern gaming CPUs. Integrating Blacksmith is a one-line code change. 100+ companies like Ashby, Superblocks, and Slope use Blacksmith to help developers merge code faster. Blacksmith |
IN BRIEF: 😍 Build tool Vite has a snazzy new homepage just in time for ViteConf. The Svelte team shares everything that's new with Svelte lately. 🕹️ OneJS is an attempt to bring JavaScript scripting into the Unity game engine. ▶️ Here's a screencast showing it off. 🎂 The Knip code decluttering tool celebrates two years with a new release containing a revamped auto-fix mechanism for automatically removing unused exports and files from your code. Congratulations to Ulises Gascón for becoming the newest TC39 Delegate. |
RELEASES: Eleventy / 11ty 3.0 – Node.js-powered static site generator. Tabulator 6.3 – Popular interactive table / data grid control. Jiti 2.0 – Runtime TypeScript and ESM support for Node.js. pnpm 9.12 – The alternative, efficient package manager. |
▶ Bundling: The Past, Present and Future — A history lesson on bundlers, why they’re used, the problems they solve, the current ecosystem, and a look at the potential future for these tools. Devon Govett |
🤖 assistant-ui: React Components for AI Chat — It doesn’t just give you the interface components, but has integrations for Vercel AI, Langchain, and talking to other common LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI), enabling you to build your own in-house AI chat system quickly. Examples. Simon Farshid |
🗓️ Schedule-X 2.3 – Material Design event calendar and date picker. Summernote 0.9 – Simple WYSIWYG editor atop Bootstrap and jQuery. ng-dnd 4.0 – Drag and drop solution for Angular. (Demos.) Prisma 5.20 – Popular ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. React95 v9.0 – Make React apps that look like Windows 95. Vaul 1.0 – Elegant drawer component for React. Eruda 3.4 – A console/devtools for mobile browsers. BlockNote 0.16 – 'Notion-style' block-based editor. | |