#​758 — October 24, 2025

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Vitest 4.0 Released: The Vite-Native Testing Framework — The Vite-powered, Jest-compatible testing framework introduces visual regression testing, makes its ‘Browser Mode’ stable (for running tests in a browser directly), adds Playwright Traces support, and more. Still unsure? You can compare it with other test runners here.

VoidZero and Contributors

💡 Starting from Angular 21, Vitest will become Angular's default test runner, replacing Karma and Jasmine.

The Most Customizable Auth for JavaScript Developers — See how FusionAuth gives you total customization freedom without building from scratch. Create fully branded login experiences that integrate with any JS stack. Downloadable and self-hostable. Watch the free on-demand webinar.

FusionAuth sponsor

Next.js 16 Released — Launched alongside this week’s Next.js Conf (you can ▶️ watch the livestream here), the popular React framework gains explicit caching components, an MCP server for AI-assisted debugging, both Turbopack and React Compiler support go stable, and more.

Lai, Story, Markbåge, and Neutkens

▶  The Nordic.js 2025 Talk Videos — Nordic.js took place earlier this month and they’ve just shared the videos of a fantastic set of talks. Some highlights include Christoph Porteneuve talking about ES2026 and ES2027, Kyle Simpson on passkeys, and Sara Vieira diving into writing an emulator in JavaScript.

Nordic.js

IN BRIEF:

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  It's been a decade since we mentioned Backbone.js regularly, but it was a big deal in the pre-React era. Panphora looks at React vs Backbone in 2025 and ponders how much progress we've made in 15 years.

  
  


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  The Deno team shares some updates about its Deno Deploy platform.

  
  


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  There's just one week left to take the State of JavaScript 2025 survey.

  
  


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  The URL Pattern API is now Baseline Newly available.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Boa v0.21 – A significant release for a JavaScript engine built in Rust, including Temporal support.

  
  


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  Bun v1.3.1 – A point release following the epic Bun 1.3 release with more modest improvements across the board.

  
  


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  Biome v2.3 – The fast formatter/linter introduces Vue, Svelte and Astro support.

  
  


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  ESLint v9.38.0, Astro 5.15, pnpm 10.19, Rspack 1.6.0 Beta 1

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

Importing vs Fetching JSON — You’ve used import to load code, but what about loading JSON? Import attributes, now broadly supported across browsers, make it possible, but is there any point instead of using fetch? Jake investigates.

Jake Archibald

Rethinking Async Loops in JavaScript — Awaiting in loops runs your async operations one-by-one instead of all at once. And using map() with await? It doesn’t even wait. Matt breaks down some patterns that actually work, and why forEach with async is easy to get wrong.

Matt Smith

Build Your Apps Faster with a Ready-to-Use Backend — Forget about DevOps headaches. OneEntry gives frontend devs a ready-to-use cloud backend with built-in database, intuitive admin panel, and flexible data models that adapt to any project.

OneEntry sponsor

Building CLIs with Ace: A Bookmarks App in Node and Bun — Ace (GitHub repo) is a CLI app framework built by the AdonisJS folks that you might not have encountered before.

Harminder Virk

Solving NYT's Pips Puzzle with TypeScript — I love doing the New York Times’ various puzzles, though I’m not a huge fan of their newest one: Pips. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting puzzle to consider how to solve algorithmically.

Andrew Healey

📄 React and Remix Choose Different Futures Brendan McLoughlin

📄 One Year with Next.js App Router — Why We're Moving On Paper Clover

📄 4 Unconventional Ways to Cast in TypeScript PolyWolf

🛠 Code & Tools

Ky 1.13: Tiny, Elegant Fetch-Based HTTP Client for Browsers — Makes the Fetch API tidier to use (as shown here), and is also a good modern alternative for Axios. v1.13 adds a ‘context’ feature making it easier to create reusable API clients that can accept custom parameters.

Sindre Sorhus

JustGage 2.0: Draw and Animate Dashboard-Style SVG Gauges — A big release for a project started over a decade ago, now brought into the modern age and using native SVG APIs. There's a playground that lets you play with the options and gauge styles.

Bojan Djuricic

Wallaby v3: Smarter Testing with Result Streaming & Cached Results — New Wallaby v3 streams live results, uses cached execution for instant startup, and prioritizes active files, making JS & TS test feedback faster and smarter than ever.

Wallaby Team sponsor

Solito 5.0: A Way to Use React Native with Next.js — Solito is a wrapper around React Navigation and Next.js that lets you share navigation code when building cross-platform apps. v5.0 supports Next.js 16 and Expo 54, and also drops React Native Web as a dependency.

Fernando Rojo

[.. 🔎..] MaxIntervalCover: Compute the Optimal Subset of Non-Overlapping Intervals

Robert Eisele

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  p-limit 7.2 – Run multiple promise-returning and async functions with limited concurrency. Now .map() can accept an iterable, not just an array.

  
  


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  Repomix 1.8 – Pack an entire repository into a single, LLM-friendly file. Now with official plugins for Claude Code.

  
  


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  ESLint Markdown Language Plugin 7.5 – Lint JS/TSX code blocks in Markdown documents.

  
  

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem

A roundup of other interesting stories from the broader landscape:

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  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer continues to work on his "web dev for beginners" series with a rather epic look at CSS layout in general (above), covering Flexbox, CSS Grid, media queries and container queries. This is a fantastic, modern primer for the topic, even if you're not a beginner.

  
  


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  No video yet, but Node.js TSC member Ruy Adorno gave a talk at JSConf last week about What's New and What's Next in Node.js and has shared his slidedeck which stands well on its own.

  
  


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  Over on X, Tzvetan Milkov shows off an interesting proof of concept of React driving the Dear ImGui GUI library with the Hermes JS engine to create fully native apps.

  
  


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  SpacetimeDB is a Rust-powered database/server combo for powering real-time multiplayer games and its latest release adds support for TypeScript modules.

  
  


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  Dan Abramov shares some insights on how to fix any bug in your code. This is a daily task for most developers, but Dan explains the technique of simplifying a bug reproduction well.

  
  


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  Is /dev/null an ACID compliant database? If you squint a lot.

  
  

#​757 — October 17, 2025

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Bun 1.3: The Full-Stack JavaScript Runtime — Arriving a few hours after last week’s issue (natch!) Bun 1.3 remains the big news of the past week. Bun is a performance and DX-focused JavaScriptCore-powered runtime which, with v1.3, balances being a drop-in Node.js replacement with becoming a ‘full-stack runtime’ among other exciting developments:

• Full‑stack dev server with hot reloading built into Bun.serve
  


• Improved GC with lower idle CPU and memory usage.


• Built-in MySQL and Redis clients (alongside Postgres and SQLite).


• The ability to bundle both frontend and backend apps into a single build.


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  Code signing for Windows and macOS executables you build.


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  Isolated pnpm-esque package installs are now the default.

The Bun Team

AI Agents? Meet External Tools — Launching an AI-powered app? Make sure your agent is securely connecting with all of your external tools and APIs. Learn more about how Auth0’s Token Vault can secure your logins and agents so your users aren’t left vulnerable and exposed.

Auth0 sponsor

Announcing Vite+ / VitePlus — Originally announced at last week's ViteConf, Evan shares more details about what this extended, unified Vite-based toolchain (now in ‘early access’) is, and the motivation behind it. Unlike regular Vite, it has a commercial angle but “will be free for individuals, open source projects, and small businesses” as well as “source available.”

Evan You

Node.js v25.0.0 (Current) Released — The latest cutting edge version of Node has arrived with Web Storage enabled by default, JSON.stringify perf improvements, a new --allow-net option in the permission model, built-in Uint8Array base64/hex conversion, and WebAssembly and JIT optimizations.

Rafael Gonzaga

IN BRIEF:

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  Cloudflare Sandboxes is a new service for running untrusted JavaScript (and Python) code in a safe container-based 'sandbox' environment.

  
  


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  The Remix project's Remix Jam event took place last week, and you can now ▶️ watch the full livestream. If you want to see the reveal and demo of Remix 3, jump to 03:24:30 in the video.

  
  


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  Why is typeof null === 'object'? Piotr Zarycki goes much deeper into the history than you might expect.

  
  


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  The Lit project is joining the OpenJS Foundation.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  React Native 0.82 – It's a 'new era' as React Native now runs entirely on the New Architecture.

  
  


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  Graffle 7.3 – GraphQL client library formerly known as graphql-request. v7.3 adds CommonJS support for compatibility with Jest and non-ESM systems.

  
  


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  Skeleton v4.0 – Adaptive design system powered by Tailwind CSS. See the homepage for a preview and more.

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web — A look at WAICT (Web Application Integrity, Consistency, and Transparency), an early-stage W3C-backed effort to bring stronger ‘app store-like’ security guarantees to the Web by ensuring the code a browser runs hasn’t been modified by attackers.

Michael Rosenberg (Cloudflare)

▶  Beyond Signals — A half-hour talk from the creator of SolidJS, exploring how signals (once pioneering, now mainstream) are shaping web development, their architectural implications, but why we’re only “at the beginning of the journey” and what comes next.

Ryan Carniato

Build Smarter Web Apps with AI-Powered JavaScript UI Controls — Build enterprise apps faster with 145+ AI-ready, high-performance JS components. Start your free trial today.

Syncfusion sponsor

Lazy Fields for 30x Speedup Without Decorators or Transforms — Some clever work from the creators of the Joist ORM.

Stephen Haberman (Joist)

🌿 A Quick Tutorial on the Barnsley Fern Fractal — The Barnsley fern is a fractal that represents a plant-like fern structure.

Slicker

💡 Slicker has other examples of implementing effects in (somewhat old school) JavaScript, including the Julia set fractal, plasma, and a fire effect.

📄 Find Where a Specific Object Was Allocated in JavaScript with DevTools – A slightly convoluted Chrome DevTools trick for tracking down where a specific object was allocated. Joona Heikkilä

📄 A Modern Guide to Reading and Writing Files in Node.js – A comprehensive guide to a variety of approaches. Luciano Mammino

📄 Refactoring a Form to a Signal Form in Angular Tim Deschryver

📄 How to Get Started with GitHub Copilot CLI Andrea Griffiths (GitHub)

🛠 Code & Tools

DOMPurify 3.3: A Fast, Tolerant XSS Sanitizer for HTML — Supports all modern browsers (as well as Node.js) and is heavily tested. There’s a live demo here.

Cure53

python-node: Integrate Python ASGI Apps with Node.js — Several months ago Platformatic unveiled php-node, a way to embed PHP directly within Node apps. Now they’re tackling Python with @platformatic/python-node, a Node-native bridge that embeds a Python interpreter and speaks ASGI.

Stephen Belanger and Matteo Collina

Tiger Lake: Real-Time Data for Dashboards, Agents & Analytics — Unify Postgres and your lakehouse for live, full-context data—no pipelines, no lag.

TigerData sponsor

jsonriver: A Simple, Fast Streaming JSON Parser — A library to parse JSON incrementally as it streams in, such as from a network request or an LLM, returning a sequence of ‘increasingly complete’ values.

Peter Burns (Google)

Kaluma 1.3: A Tiny JS Runtime for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 — Can a JavaScript runtime squeeze onto an RP2350-based Raspberry Pi Pico 2? Kaluma can, all while offering some Node.js-like niceties. v1.3 is powered by the latest version of JerryScript, a lightweight JS engine for constrained environments.

Kaluma Project

Triplex: A Visual Workspace for Building React Components — Originally a commercial tool for laying out components in 3D scenes rendered with React Three Fiber, Triplex is now open source. Its scope has increased with a VS Code extension and support for regular React DOM elements and components too.

Mike Douges and Pmndrs

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  🗓️ Schedule-X 3.3 – Event calendar control. MIT licensed, but with a premium version with added features.

  
  


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  json-joy v17.55.0 – Real-time, collaborative editing algorithms and utilities for JSON data models.

  
  


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  Ky 1.12 – Simple HTTP client based upon Fetch for browsers, Node & Deno.

  
  


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  🗓️ React Date Picker 8.8 – Simple date picker component. (Demo.)

  
  


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  Faker 10.1 – Generate fabricated data to your heart's content.

  
  

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem

A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader landscape:

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  The React team has shipped v1.0 of React Compiler, a tool for automating the optimization of React apps by way of auto-memoization applied based upon analysis of their code.

  
  


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  Sebastian Lague's ▶️ Simulating Smoke video presents a fascinating look at how you might model and code a fluid simulation to emulate the behavior of smoke. It's not in JavaScript but is mostly math anyway.

  
  


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  With this week's release of Firefox 144, all major browsers now support view transitions, a neat front-end feature.

  
  


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  PostgreSQL 18 was released recently and its new asynchronous I/O subsystem yields immediate performance benefits for certain workloads, as seen in these benchmarks of Postgres 17 vs Postgres 18 performed by PlanetScale.

  
  


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  Ever heard of HTML's <output> tag?

  
  


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  🐈 Cat cams! Nothing to do with programming, but meow.camera charmed me. You might need to switch cameras to actually find a cat. Not a fan of cats? Check out the Namib Desert for some bigger critters..

  
  

#​756 — October 10, 2025

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▶  Vite: The Documentary — From the same creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js, ▶️ Angular and ▶️ React documentaries comes an up to date look at Vite, the build tool that has taken the JavaScript ecosystem by storm in recent years. Many luminaries make an appearance to tell their stories, including Evan You, Rich Harris, and Ryan Carniato. (39 minutes.)

CultRepo

💡 In related news, Vite+ (VitePlus) has appeared, a future, more commercial offering of the Vite toolchain aimed at teams. More news on this next week.

Go from Monolith to Monorepo — Join Mike North for this course on architecting maintainable, fast and light codebases. You'll learn how to refactor a codebase into a TypeScript monorepo using tools like Nx and Lerna — covering dependencies, formatting, linting, performance and more.

Frontend Masters sponsor

Introducing the React Foundation — At React Conf 2025 this week, it was announced that control of React and React Native is to be moved from Meta to an independent foundation supported by the Linux Foundation and initially backed by corporate members including Amazon, Expo, Meta, and Microsoft.

Webster, Carroll, Savona and Alpert

📺 If you'd like to catch up with React Conf, you can now watch the ▶️ day one and ▶️ day two livestream recordings on YouTube.

IN BRIEF:

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  Ready for a bit of experimental fun? Here's an implementation of pipeline-style composition (using |) in pure JavaScript thanks to Symbol.toPrimitive and some rather clever code.

  
  


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  🕹️ The JS13KGames gamedev event recently ended and here are 2025's winners for you to play or dig through the code for.

  
  


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  ⚖️ Deno, currently embroiled in a fight with Oracle over the JavaScript trademark, has served Oracle the first request for documents.

  
  


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  🤖 Mastra, a fast-growing TypeScript-based AI framework initially created by members of the Gatsby team, has raised a $13m seed round.

  
  


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  Nicholas C. Zakas shares what's coming up in ESLint v10.0.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Next.js 16 Beta – Turbopack support is now stable and the default bundler for Next.js apps, React 19.2 support is also baked in, React Compiler support is now stable, and more.

  
  


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  Playwright 1.56 – Microsoft's browser/Web automation library – now with ▶️ Playwright Agents.

  
  


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  ESLint v9.37.0, VS Code September 2025

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

The Birth of Prettier — The author takes us back ten years to the genesis of Prettier, the popular opinionated, deterministic code formatter he co-created with James Long. Prettier effectively introduced and popularized the practice of fully-automated AST-based code formatting in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Christopher Chedeau (Vjeux)

15 Recent Node.js Features That Can Replace Popular npm Packages — Many features that once required third-party packages are now built into the runtime itself.

Lizz Parody

⚡ Supercharge Postgres: 2PB Scale & 1.5T Metrics/Day — TigerData makes Postgres the fastest database for modern workloads: 2PB scale, 1.5T metrics/day, no black boxes.

TigerData sponsor

How to Group Arrays Without reduce() — A look at using Object.groupBy() and Map.groupBy()

Matt Smith

The History of Core Web Vitals — Addy tells the story behind Core Web Vitals, a popular set of metrics for measuring Web performance and its impact on user experience.

Addy Osmani

📄 How to Add Fast, Client-Side Search to Astro Static Sites – JavaScript to the rescue! Ivan Chepurin

📄 Shipping Node.js Packages in 2025 – A dense and helpful slidedeck from a talk given at last week's NordicJS event. Joyee Cheung

📄 How to Animate WebGL Shaders with GSAP: Ripples, Reveals, and Dynamic Blur Effects Andrea Biason

📄 Vue Basics: State Management in Vue David Adeneye Abiodun

🛠 Code & Tools

Viz.js 3.20: Work with Graphviz in the Browser — Graphviz is a suite of open source graph drawing tools of over 30 years’ vintage. Viz.js is a WebAssembly Graphviz build that brings its functionality into the browser. GitHub repo.

Michael Daines

EmbedPDF: A PDF Viewer That Integrates with Any JavaScript Project — No dependencies, supports any framework, and has features like themes, annotations, redaction, search, smooth scrolling, and more – all available via a dev-friendly API. See the docs or try a live demo.

EmbedPDF

🎸 AI Agent Builder with All the Features, None of the Overhead — Shipping an agent-first web app? Use our template with all premium diagramming features and cut your dev time to days.

JOINTJS sponsor

The Coinbase Design System (CDS) React Components Library — The team behind Coinbase has open sourced its component library for React and React Native. There are lots of neat effects in the components, such as this ‘rolling number’ component.

Coinbase

Icebird: Read Apache Iceberg Tables in JavaScript — Iceberg is a high performance open-source format for large analytic tables.

Hyperparam

resolve-lexicon: Resolve AT Lexicons Over the Network — Lexicon is a schema definition language used in the AT Protocol world.

Dan Abramov

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  react-map-gl 8.1 – React friendly API wrapper around MapboxGL JS. (Demo.)

  
  


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  🔮 Tarot.js 1.0 – Library for creating and managing tarot cards and decks.

  
  


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  PlayCanvas glTF Viewer 5.6 – 3D model viewer supporting glTF 2.0 and PLY.

  
  


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  Vue-multiselect 3.4 – Select/multiselect/tagging component for Vue.

  
  


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  Reactylon 3.2 – Babylon.js-powered XR framework for React.

  
  


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  Marked 16.4 – Fast Markdown compiler / parser.

  
  


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  Pixi.js 8.14 – Fast, flexible 2D WebGL renderer.

  
  


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  Javet 5.0 – Embed Node.js and V8 into Java.

  
  

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem

A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader landscape:

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  👍 The Firefox team has put together a way for you to give input on which Interop proposals matter the most to you (above). Go to the Interop Feature Ranking site (GitHub account required) and drag the web platform features that matter most for you to the top.

  
  


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  🔒 JavaScript security expert Liran Tal has put together a list of npm security best practices to consider adopting.

  
  


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  🖼️ Mirrow is an interesting way to create and animate SVGs using a custom CSS-esque DSL in an attempt to promote SVGs from merely being static assets to something you can manage in a more code-like way. Check out the Mirrow playground to experiment.

  
  


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  We've all heard of vibe coding but Simon Willison wonders if LLMs used properly to produce code that someone confidently stand behind could be considered 'vibe engineering'?

  
  


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  Talking of vibes, Heroku is taking a step into the world of AI-powered app building with Heroku Vibes.

  
  


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  Caden Parker presents a look at parallelizing cellular automata using WebGPU compute shaders.

  
  

#​755 — October 3, 2025

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The State of JavaScript 2025 Survey — Each year, Devographics runs an epic survey of as many JavaScript community members as it can and turns the results into an interesting report on the state of the ecosystem – here’s the results from 2024. If you have the time, fill it in, especially as they format it in a way where you can actually learn about stuff as you go.

Devographics

React 19.2 Released — The third release in a year for React, this time introducing new features like <Activity /> (a way to hide and restore the UI and internal state of its children), useEffectEvent, and improvements to Chrome DevTools' performance profiles so you can see more about React’s scheduling and the tree of components it’s working with. Oh, and how about partial pre-rendering?

The React Team

Don’t miss The AI Security Developers Challenge at DevSecCon on Oct 22, 2025 — Participate in the hands-on developer challenge workshop 💻at DevSecCon and get a chance to team up with industry experts from around the globe 🌎. Register for free and walk away with practical tips you can apply directly to your projects 🚀.

Snyk sponsor

IN BRIEF:

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  Monthly roundups aplenty from the Svelte project, team Astro, and Viteland!

  
  


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  It was recently discovered that Electron-based apps were causing system-wide lag on macOS 26/Tahoe due to changes in a private API. Electron 38.2, 37.6 and 36.9.2 fix the bug.

  
  


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  📺 The creators of popular documentaries ▶️ about Vue.js, ▶️ React, and ▶️ Node.js are about to release a new one about Vite. It lands next week; ▶️ here's a 1-minute teaser trailer.

  
  


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  The newly relaunched JSConf event returns to Maryland on October 14-16. Tickets are still available and they gave us a JSCONF25NEWSLETTER code which gives a discount. (Note: We have no financial relationship with the event.)

  
  


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  🤖 Google AI Studio has added the ability to generate Angular apps.

  
  


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  The release of Bun 1.3, expected yesterday, has been pushed back to next Monday.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Anime.js 4.2 – Powerful JavaScript animation engine.

  
  


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  npm-check-updates 19.0 – Find newer versions of packages dependencies than your package.json allows.

  
  


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  pnpm 10.18, Oxlint 1.19, Bun 1.2.23, Deno 2.5.3

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

How Deno Protects Against npm Exploits — The maintainers of the Deno runtime reflect on the recent npm ecosystem security issues and show off how Deno’s non-permissive explicit ‘secure by default’ model can help.

Andy Jiang

Cleaning House in Nx Monorepo: How I Removed 120 Unused Deps Safely — Another win (mostly) for Knip, a tool that helps you declutter projects by finding unused dependencies.

John James

Tests Are Dead. Meticulous Is Here — Meticulous automatically creates and maintains an E2E UI test suite with zero developer effort.

Meticulous sponsor

You Can Now Make PS2 Games in JavaScript — Last week we mentioned running JavaScript in MS-DOS but you can take it to Sony’s Playstation 2 as well using a system built upon QuickJS.

JSLegendDev

How to Detect Safari and iOS Versions from JavaScript — Naturally, progressive enhancement is the best policy, but if you need to..

Evgeniy Valyaev

Mastering npx: A Cheatsheet for npm and Node Power Users — You’ve almost certainly used the npx command to easily run a command from an npm package (either local or remote) – it’s easy to use, but npx has a couple of other features and options to keep in mind.

Liran Tal

📄 Why Next.js Falls Short on Software Engineering Harshal Patil

📄 @ts-ignore is Almost Always the Worst Option – Prefer any and @ts-expect-error, says the author. Evan Hahn

📄 I Want to Intercept Boolean Coercion for Objects in JavaScript Zach Leatherman

🛠 Code & Tools

qjs: Run JavaScript in Go using QuickJS and Wazero — A new Cgo-free JavaScript runtime option for integrating JavaScript into apps written in Go. It uses a fork of QuickJS that’s compiled to WebAssembly and then run using Wazero.

Nguyen Ngoc Phuong and Contributors

💡 If you happen to be a Go developer, we have a sister newsletter for that!

Diagramming Library for the Enterprise? Use JointJS — Cut dev time 12x with JointJS, the most feature-rich diagramming library trusted by Fortune 100 companies.

JointJS sponsor

SpaceTime 7.11: A Lightweight Timezone Library — Use this to calculate times in other timezones. Has a Moment-like API but is immutable. No dependencies. GitHub repo.

Spencer Kelly

Jeasx: A Lightweight SSR Framework That Uses JSX — A server side rendering framework built on top of JSX and Fastify. It doesn’t use React, but if you want to keep using JSX while keeping your server side lightweight, it’s an option. The JSX functionality is provided by the author’s jsx-async-runtime package. v1.9 was just released.

Maik Jablonski

📊 Vue ECharts 8.0: Vue.js Component for Apache ECharts — Apache ECharts is a popular, powerful JavaScript charting library we’ve linked many times and this project makes it easier to use in Vue.js apps. v8.0 upgrades to ECharts 6.0. GitHub repo.

GU Yiling and ECOMFE

modern-tar: Zero-Dependency Streaming tar Parser and Writer — As in the classic tar archive format.

Ayuhito

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  🗓️ Color Calendar 2.0 – Add interactive events calendars to a page.

  
  


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  Skia Canvas 3.0 – GPU-powered 2D vector canvas graphics for Node.

  
  


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  CKEditor5 47.0 – Popular commercial rich text editor framework.

  
  


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  Verdaccio 6.2 – Lightweight local private npm registry.

  
  


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  BlockNote 0.40 – 'Notion-style' block-based editor.

  
  


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  NodeBB 4.6 – Node.js based forum system.

  
  

🕰  ICYMI (Some older stuff that may catch your eye...)

🛣️ Sean C Davis runs through strategies for managing routes in JavaScript projects — good, practical advice for establishing a consistent workflow and improve overall maintainability.

🦆 Remember Duck Hunt for the NES? Well, ▶️ here's a lengthy video looking at how to recreate it in TypeScript.

🛠️ Chizaram Ken runs through a handful of reasons why your Next.js app may be slow, along with some possible fixes.

😗  And a weird note to end on..

Have you ever wanted to program by whistling? Now you can. Velato is a JavaScript-inspired esoteric language designed to be written entirely by whistling and you can give it a go in your browser right now. I struggled with it, but you might have more luck (it doesn't seem to like Safari, for starters).

Velato was built by Daniel Temkin, the author of Forty-Four Esolangs, a new book, published by MIT Press, about an artist's take on creating esoteric programming languages.