Plus what stage 2.7 means, Angular goes standalone, and how to create a tiny JS app container image. |
| An SSR Performance Showdown — Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most popular libraries. The first attempt faced negative feedback due to implementation issues, but the showdown has been improved and re-run. Matteo Collina |
| Announcing Vue 3.5 — While v3.5 is a minor release, it’s one Vue users will love, with big performance and memory usage improvements in its reactivity system. With no breaking changes, upgrade and watch memory consumption drop. Evan You |
| WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS — WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible and easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes instead of months. It's trusted by hundreds of high-growth startups such as Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, and Webflow. WorkOS |
| Inside ECMAScript: JavaScript Standards Get an Extra Stage — After nine years of annual updates, TC39 has tweaked the process to make rolling out new features faster and smoother. The so-called ‘Stage 2.7’ has been around for a while, but this is a neat primer to what it represents. Mary Branscombe (The New Stack) |
| IN BRIEF: ⭐ Vercel goes deep into what's new in React 19. 💰 Alpine.js creator Caleb Porzio shares his tale of passing $1m on GitHub Sponsors. Bye NgModules, the future of Angular is standalone! Angular v19 will make standalone: true the default for components, directives, and pipes. This is already the recommended best practice, however. Angular's product lead, Minko Gechev, has also shared a little about what it means to mange the Angular project. OpenAI has switched ChatGPT from Next.js to a Remix-based app, according to Remix's Ryan Florence on X. 🇵🇱 Poland's WarsawJS community is holding a 10th anniversary meetup on September 11. They invite you to ▶️ watch live on YouTube. 🤖 Lee Robinson shows off ▶️ the latest enhancements to Vercel's v0, an AI-based tool for creating apps and components from prompts you supply. |
| RELEASES: Node.js v22.8.0 (Current) – Adds a new API for enabling on-disk code caching at runtime, as well as options to set thresholds for code coverage success. Astro 4.15 – The popular content site framework stabilizes Astro Actions, a solution for fully type-safe backend functions. Jimp 1.3 – Pure JS image processing library for Node. Turborepo 2.1, Puppeteer 23.3, Mermaid 11.1 |
| ▶ Behind the Scenes: The Making of VS Code — A detailed conversation with two of the popular editor's principal engineers on what makes it tick. VS Code is surely one of the world's most widely distributed JavaScript-powered apps. Holland, Rieken and Pasero (Microsoft) |
| How to Use React Compiler — The compiler feature in React 19 is generating a lot of buzz — this “complete guide”, as described by this author, covers much of what you'll need to get started. Tapas Adhikary |
| Redwood v8.0 Released — A long standing, opinionated React & GraphQL (and/or RSC) full-stack framework that covers all the bases for professional dev teams with best-in-class tool support. v8.0 introduces a background jobs system, Docker support, and easier SSR and RSC setup. Redwood Team |
| Belt: A New Tool for Starting React Native Apps — A CLI tool for starting a new React Native app that takes various mundane decisions away from you and uses tooling and conventions established by a productive app development team. Thoughtbot |
| Tinybase 5.2 – Powerful reactive data store for local‑first apps. Now with Postgres support (which can even work in-browser!) jsdoc-to-markdown 9.0 – Generate Markdown docs from JSDoc-annotated code. LogTape 0.5 – No-dependency logging lib for Deno, Node, Bun & browsers. Plasmo 0.89 – Imagine Next.js but for building browser extensions. JsonTree.js 3.0 – Customizable tree views for JSON data. Poku 2.6 – Cross-platform JavaScript test runner. Faker 9.0 – Generate large amounts of fake data. |
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