#​745 — July 18, 2025

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The JavaScript Date Quiz — Prepare to get irritated? JavaScript’s native date parsing features are notoriously arcane and prone to cause surprises if you step off the beaten track. So while we await the broad availability of the Temporal API, why not put your assumptions and knowledge to the test with an educational quiz?

Sam Rose

Next.js 15.4 Released (and What's Coming in Next.js 16) — A relatively small release for Next, but with updates to performance, stability, and Turbopack compatibility, and a good summary of what’s coming next in Next.js 16.

Jimmy Lai and Zack Tanner

Add SSO & SCIM with Just a Few Lines of Code — WorkOS offers clean, well-documented APIs for SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more, so you can focus on building features your users care about. Trusted by engineering teams at Cursor, Replit, Vercel, and Temporal.

WorkOS sponsor

WebAssembly: Yes, But for What? — Writing for ACM Queue, one of the contributors to multiple JavaScript and WebAssembly (WASM) implementations shares a good roundup of where WebAssembly is being used, both in the browser and server-side, and how it’s gradually finding its way into seemingly everything.

Andy Wingo / ACM

IN BRIEF:

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  Vue 3.6 Alpha has been released as a preview of what's coming up. Vapor Mode is a key addition for compiling single file components into a more efficient form.

  
  


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  React Native is gaining support for Node-API, opening up a lot of possibilities for code-sharing, build optimizations, and bringing existing packages into the React Native ecosystem.

  
  


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  The Node.js team is discussing whether to move Node to annual major releases (as opposed to twice a year now).

  
  


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  You can now run Laravel (PHP) apps within Node.js.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Nuxt v4.0 – A major DX-focused release for the popular full-stack Vue.js framework.

  
  


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  Node.js v24.4.1, v22.17.1, and v20.19.4 – To fix security vulnerabilities.

  
  


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  ESLint v9.31.0 – Four core rules have been updated to support explicit resource management.

  
  


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  Astro 5.12, Neutralinojs 6.2, OpenPGP.js 6.2

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

How to Create an NPM Package in 2025 — One of JavaScript’s most essential tasks, but one with numerous steps involved if you want to follow best practices, integrate useful tools, and get things just right. Matt Pocock rounds up the overall process here.

Matt Pocock

The History of React Through Code — An epic article charting React’s evolution from its origins at Facebook through to now. It sheds light on React’s core philosophies and the motivations behind major decisions. This is a great way to round out your thinking about, and knowledge of, React's overall story.

Corbin Crutchley

How to Build an AI Coding Rules App with Lovable — Guide AI to generate a secure, full-stack app with minimal prompts—learn how to turn ideas into working software fast.

Clerk sponsor

▶  The Untold Story of JavaScript — Two months ago, the Deno team shared A Brief History of JavaScript, a thorough timeline-based tour of JavaScript each year from 1994 till now. This video covers the same ground in just 8 minutes.

Deno

A Better Promise.all() – Utility Types and Functions — Utility types and functions that make deep promise handling more ergonomic and type-safe.

Nick Keuning

📄 Make Your Website Talk with the Web Speech API – A simple, straightforward approach. Andrew Magill

📄 How I Found a Bypass in Google's Big Anti-Adblock Update – A neat bit of JavaScript hackery (which is now fixed in Chrome). Derin Eryilmaz

📄 Building a 3D Product Configurator with Babylon.js – How to take configurable 3D models to the Web. Josh Sanderson

📄 Modern Async Iteration with Array.fromAsync() Matt Smith

🛠 Code & Tools

Tiptap v3: The Headless Rich Text Editor Framework — Tiptap provides a fantastic base for putting together powerful rich text editing experiences, and v3 includes a lot of DX improvements like being able to unmount and remount editors (ideal for dynamic UIs), ‘Markviews’ for creating custom views for text segments (marks) using your own components, an SSR mode, and more. GitHub repo.

Tiptap GmbH

✉️ Upyo: A Simple Cross-Runtime Email Sending Library — A cross-runtime email library that provides a unified, type-safe API for sending emails both on SMTP and HTTP-based (e.g. SendGrid or Amazon SES) providers. TIL that ‘upyo’ (우표) means ‘postage stamp’ in Korean.

Hong Minhee

No Breakpoints, No console.log — Just AI & Time Travel — 15x faster TypeScript and JavaScript debugging than with breakpoints and console.log, upgrading your AI agent into an expert debugger with real-time context.

Wallaby Team sponsor

Hyper Fetch: A 'Turbocharged' Fetch Library for Working with Remote APIs — A framework-agnostic, Axios and TanStack Query-inspired type-safe data-fetching framework for browser and server environments, with request lifecycle management, real-time communication, progress tracking, and codegen for Swagger/OpenAPI. GitHub repo.

Maciej Pyrc et al.

GrowField: Small, Dependency-Free Module for Making Textarea Elements Grow — Very simple. For when you’ve got a textarea input and you want it to grow as more content is added to it.

Five Fifteen

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  ESLint Markdown Language Plugin 7.0 – Lint Markdown with ESLint, as well JS, JSX, TypeScript, and more inside Markdown.

  
  


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  🖊️ Atrament 5.0 – A small JS library for natural-feeling drawing and handwriting on canvas elements.

  
  


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  xo 1.2 – JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults.

  
  


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  Wasp 0.17 – Wasp is a Rails-like framework using Node, React & Prisma.

  
  


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  Tinybase 6.4 – Powerful reactive data store for local‑first apps.

  
  


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  express-rate-limit 8.0 – Rate-limiting middleware for Express.

  
  


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  TWGL.js 7.0 – Minimalistic WebGL helper library. (Docs.)

  
  


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  Bladewind 3.1 – JavaScript UI components for Laravel apps.

  
  


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  Concaveman 2.0 – A fast 2D concave hull algorithm.

  
  


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  MUI X 8.8 – Popular React component suite.

  
  

🎁 Tiny Bonus Items

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  🔎 git-quick-stats.sh is a shell-based way to get a lot of statistics about your current Git repo.

  
  


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  A developer shares his experience of crawling a billion web pages in just 24 hours.

  
  


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  🤖 Burke Holland gives us a first look at GitHub's Copilot Coding Agent, essentially a more stand-alone, independent AI agent you can point at working on issues and PRs in your repo.

  
  


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  AWS has unveiled Amazon S3 Vectors, an add-on to its S3 object storage service that lets you store and query vectors.

  
  

#​744 — July 11, 2025

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Vercel Acquires NuxtLabs — Vercel has acquired the company that caretakes the Nuxt project and employs some of its core team – a move Vue creator Evan You is quite optimistic about. Vercel now manages, or at least supports, several key projects like Next.js, Turborepo, Svelte, and shadcn/ui. Nuxt itself remains open source and has a promising future. Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch shares a little more about the move here.

NuxtLabs / Vercel

💡 Daniel Roe, leader of the Nuxt team, answered lots of questions about the acquisition on Reddit.

FlexGrid by Wijmo: The Industry-Leading JavaScript Datagrid — A fast and flexible DataGrid for building modern web apps. Key features and virtualized rendering are included in the core grid module. Pick & choose special features to keep your app small. Built for JavaScript, extended to Angular, React, and Vue.

Wijmo From MESCIUS sponsor

A Detailed Summary of the Latest TC39 Plenary — A thorough roundup of May’s major ECMAScript committee meeting with far more detail about each proposal’s development and the decisions made than we usually get to hear about. Topics include Array.fromAsync, explicit resource management, the Temporal API, and some brainstorming around AsyncContext.

Igalia Compilers Team

IN BRIEF:

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  TypeScript 5.9 Beta has been released with support for deferred module evaluation by using import defer.

  
  


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  The Nginx HTTP server has a module (njs) for extending its functionality using JavaScript, but it only supported ES5. Now, njs uses QuickJS for a more modern, powerful experience with full ES2023 support.

  
  


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  Got some time to kill? There's one week left to submit an entry to the JS1024 annual JavaScript golfing competition. Create a cool JS or GLSL program in under 1024 bytes.

  
  


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  Oliver Stenbom reflects on the prevalence of Rust in modern JavaScript ecosystem tooling.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Node.js v24.4.0 (Current) – Note that new versions of all maintained Node.js releases are due next week due to some security vulnerabilities.

  
  


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  Oxlint 1.6 – Rust-powered linter for JS and TS.

  
  


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  VS Code v1.102, Ember 6.5, Angular 20.1

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

What’s the Difference Between Ordinary Functions and Arrow Functions? — This sounds like basic stuff, but James always does a good job of digging in and explaining things in a way that gives you a more nuanced way to think about a concept, even if it’s just “Which function declaration syntax should I use?”

James Sinclair

💡 His guide to how to compose JS functions that take multiple parameters is also worth revisiting.

Embrace Web RUM Provides User-Focused Observability — Get session timelines, Core Web Vitals and JS exceptions in context, and user journey analysis with issue correlation.

Embrace sponsor

JavaScript Scope Hoisting is Broken — The creator of Parcel argues that scope hoisting (when bundlers inline modules into a shared scope) conflicts with modern JS patterns like code splitting and dynamic imports, causing subtle bugs and offering little benefit, so he’s considering removing it in Parcel v3.

Devon Govett

Codepoint–Safe Truncation: Fixing Emoji Slicing — An app’s CSV importer kept breaking on emoji-filled rows, triggering errors. James demonstrates how swapping slice for a code-point–aware spread fixes it.

James Mulholland

📄 Parsing 1 Billion Rows in Bun in Under 10 Seconds Tae Kim

📄 Loosely Synchronize Your JS Stores in Multiple Tauri Processes – Tauri is a bit like a Rust-flavored Electron for building cross-platform native apps. Costa Alexoglou

📄 Managing the State of Your Promises – On the potential of Promise.all and Promise.allSettled. Lydia Cho

📄 When Can I Use Temporal? – “If Brendan Eich can invent .. JavaScript in 10 days, why has it taken eight years to replace the Date API?” John Dalziel

📄 Is It Still Worth Using jQuery in 2025? Suren Enfiajyan

🛠 Code & Tools

Driver.js: Tours, Highlights, Contextual Help, and More — A vanilla JS library for making on-page tours and contextual help systems. It’s been around for several years, but is still maintained, and there are lots of examples to check out – it’s really smooth.

Kamran Ahmed

jsonrepair: Repair Invalid JSON Documents — This has lots of possible use cases, including dealing with weird JSON coming back from LLMs or non-compliant JSON spat out by poorly built software. You can use it from Node, as a CLI tool, or try a basic version online.

Jos de Jong

🤡 In barely related news, someone has turned JSON into its own programming language. Oh, the horror!

Server-Side Support for MCP in Next.js — Server-side MCP just got easier in Next.js. One route, no extra infra—Scorecard cut 1,000 lines to just 70.

Clerk sponsor

line-numbers: A Web Component to Add Line Numbers Next to Various HTML Elements — Useful for custom apps that show source code or other snippets that require line numbering. See examples here, which demonstrate the flexibility customization options for the line numbering.

Zach Leatherman

cRonstrue 3.0: Convert Cron Expressions into Natural Language — Not just English either - it supports about thirty locales. There’s also an online demo.

Brady Holt

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  Next.js Boilerplate 5.0 – Boilerplate starter app for Next.js with auth, database support, i18n, forms, and more.

  
  


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  🔎 React Scan 0.4 – Scan for performance issues and eliminate slow renders in your app.

  
  


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  🎹 html-midi-player 1.6 – Play and display MIDI files on the web.

  
  


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  CKEditor5 46.0 – Popular commercial rich text editor framework.

  
  


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  📊 Recharts 3.1 – D3-powered chart library for React.

  
  


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  Vuetify 3.9 – Vue component framework.

  
  

👀  Elsewhere...

Here's a selection of things from the broader ecosystem this week:

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  As of Chrome 137, you can try out CSS inline conditionals using the new if() function.

  
  


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  Did you know you can generate efficient SVGs that feel like GIFs and even use them in your GitHub README.md files?

  
  


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  On Reddit, an ex-Meta engineer posted an interesting comment about how Meta / Facebook serves up React as part of the main Facebook site.

  
  


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  PlanetScale has shared a neat interactive article about caching that visually demonstrates the benefits of caching from several different angles, right down to the CPU level.

  
  


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  𝕏 Claude Code is now a single-file executable thanks to Bun.

  
  


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  ANSI.tools is a handy online tool for analyzing ANSI escape codes/sequences and a lookup of common codes.

  
  

#​743 — July 4, 2025

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🖊️ It’s been a quiet week with heatwaves and holidays seeming to slow the usual flow, but we've made it.. thanks to a few items out of left field 😅 For our US readers, happy Independence Day!
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Peter Cooper, your editor

☀️ JavaScript Weekly ☀️

Deno 2.4: deno bundle is Back — Deno 2.4 reintroduces the deno bundle command for creating single-file bundles for both the server and client side, complete with support for npm and JSR dependencies and automatic tree-shaking. You can also now include arbitrary files into modules using import, and Deno’s built-in OpenTelemetry support is now stable. It’s a substantial release.

Iwańczuk and Jiang

💡 Not to play favorites, Bun v1.2.18 is now out too.

CodeRabbit’s Free AI Code Reviews in IDE - VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf — Code Rabbit brings AI code reviews to VS Code, Cursor & Windsurf. Get line-by-line reviews, one-click fixes & codebase-aware feedback - all free in your IDE. Seamlessly integrates with git workflows. Install the extension & start reviewing!

CodeRabbit sponsor

What's New in ECMAScript 2025: Another Take — Last week we featured Dr. Axel’s look at what’s new in ES2025, but Paweł has another example-led take here that you might enjoy.

Paweł Grzybek

IN BRIEF:

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  ⚖️ Ryan Dahl has an update on the ongoing JavaScript™ trademark dispute. Oracle has about a month to respond in full to Deno's cancellation petition.

  
  


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  JS1024 is an annual JavaScript code golfing contest. You've got till July 19 to submit a JavaScript program written in 1024 bytes or less on the theme of 'Creepy'.

  
  


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  Today's the final day you can vote for an official Angular mascot.

  
  


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  In other Angular news, there's now a new way to track Angular-specific data in Chrome DevTools.

  
  


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  Microsoft has open-sourced its GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code. Even if you have no interest in AI, it offers a good look at how MS builds its own extensions.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Rspack 1.4 – Fast Rust-based (and webpack compatible) web bundler. v1.4 can now run in the browser, too, thanks to WebAssembly.

  
  


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  Electron 37.0 – The cross-platform desktop app toolkit.

  
  


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  ESLint 9.30.0 and 9.30.1

  
  


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  Astro 5.11, Babel 7.28.0, Three.js r178

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

How to Build Your Own Color Search Engine — A straightforward, practical look at bringing together several technologies and skills to create an AI powered color suggestion tool (which you can try here – results may vary, as seen above). The techniques covered can be used for many different practical ends.

Lúí Smyth

Building a Lightweight Reactive State Manager with JavaScript Proxies — What if you didn’t need a library for reactive state mangement? What if you could build a system that’s powerful and simple using a native JS feature? You can!

Loren Stewart

The Road to Next — Learn full-stack web development with Next.js 15 and React 19. The perfect match for JavaScript developers ready to go beyond the frontend.

Robin Wieruch sponsor

⏪ A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle — The most popular item in JavaScript Weekly this year (so far) was simple in presentation but also deceptively simple in what it asked. 14 characters of JS and one straightforward question – can you get it right?

Hillel Wayne

Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025 — A reflection on the potential of Node as it stands right now. Ashwin reminds us of various developments, including the use of ES modules, built-in Web APIs, the test runner, watch mode, the permission model, import maps, and more.

Ashwin

📄 Transmitting Data via Ultrasound Without Special Equipment – A creative use for JavaScript and the Web Audio API. Lorenz Diener

📺 What Every React Developer Should Know About Signals Ryan Carniato

📄 Custom 3D Models in Mapbox: A Step-by-Step Guide – Niche, but potentially very useful. Mykola Chernyshevskyi

📄 How JSDoc Saved My Dev Workflow Jordan Booker

🛠 Code & Tools

Milkdown: A Plugin-Driven WYSIWYG Markdown Editor Framework — A WYSIWYG Markdown editor framework based around a plugin system that enables a significant level of customization. The docs are rendered by Milkdown itself and there’s a neat ‘playground’ experience to try as well. GitHub repo.

Mirone

Repomix 1.0: Pack a Codebase Into an AI-Friendly Format — Enter a GitHub URL, choose your settings (XML, MD, etc), and get a blob that's ideal if you want an LLM to answer questions about or analyze that repo. You can use it online or as a library in Node. GitHub repo.

Kazuki Yamada

You Can Now Run Playwright Tests on Real iOS Devices with Safari — Spot iOS-specific issues by testing web apps on real iPhones & iPads, with logs, video playback & true Safari rendering.

BrowserStack sponsor

snapDOM 1.8: Captures DOM Nodes as Images — A rapidly maturing, fast and accurate DOM-to-image capture mechanism to capture any HTML element as a scalable SVG image, preserving styles, fonts, background images, etc. The homepage is packed with examples.

ZumerLab

🗓️ Time Picker: A shadcn/ui-Based Date/Time Picker Component — Simple, elegant, and feels good to use.

OpenStatus

🎨 Spectral.js: A 'Paint-Like' Color Mixing Library — If you have two colors to transition between, tweening the RGB values can result in some ugly intermediate colors. Spectral.js uses Kubelka–Munk theory which more closely matches how paints work for a visually satisfying result.

Ronald van Wijnen

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  Protobuf-ES 2.6 – Full Protocol Buffers implementation for JS/TS.

  
  


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  ♟︎ React Chessboard 5.0 – Render chess boards with React. (Examples.)

  
  


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  Faker 9.9 – Generate fabricated data to your heart's content.

  
  


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  jQuery Terminal Emulator 2.45 – Create web-based terminal experiences. (Demo.)

  
  


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  iCal.js 2.2 – Parser for ICS (RFC5545) and vCard (RFC6350).

  
  


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  NG-MATERO 20.0 – Angular-based admin template.

  
  


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  Mineflayer 4.30 – Create Minecraft bots in JavaScript.

  
  


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  css-select 6.0 – CSS selector compiler and engine.

  
  


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  Pixi.js 8.11 – Fast, flexible 2D WebGL renderer.

  
  

👀  Elsewhere...

Here's a selection of things from the broader ecosystem this week:

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  Engineers at Patreon have shared the story of a huge internationalization refactor they've done recently touching over 10,000 JavaScript call sites. I don't envy this task.

  
  


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  If Cloudflare Workers are too limited for your use case, Cloudflare has a new option: Cloudflare Containers. Containers is integrated with Workers but, unsurprisingly, lets you package up your app in container images and run them in a flexible way.

  
  


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  I found the story of how One Million Chessboards, a live, online 1000x1000 grid of chess boards was engineered and scaled to be quite fascinating.

  
  


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  Sharon Brizinov shares the tale of how they tracked down numerous force-pushed 'oops' commits on GitHub and uncovered secrets worth $25k in bug bounties.

  
  


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  Popular MySQL cloud provider PlanetScale is entering the Postgres space. It's in 'private preview' but they've already teased some benchmarks.

  
  


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  🎵 If you fancy getting creative, Strudel is a neat way to code music in the browser. There's a lot to enjoy here with live examples throughout the docs.

  
  

#​742 — June 27, 2025

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Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New? — It’s that time of year again. The Ecma General Assembly has approved the ES2025 language specification, which you can read in full here if you have a gallon of coffee to hand — or you can enjoy Dr. Axel’s more succinct explainer instead.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

What's Coming to JavaScript — The ES2025 spec is great, but what else is coming down the pike? The Deno team has put together a look, complete with code samples, at nine proposals progressing through TC39’s process right now.

Casonato and Jiang (Deno)

Fullstack without Frameworks — Maximiliano Firtman combines vanilla JavaScript and Go to create high-performance apps from scratch. Follow along in this video course and learn more about web components, dynamic client-side routing, authentication, logging and everything in between.

Frontend Masters sponsor

Vite 7.0 Released — At five years old, Vite has radically changed the frontend building experience and is an essential tool for many. v7 is an evolutionary step more than a revolutionary one and should prove an easy upgrade from v6.

VoidZero Inc.

IN BRIEF:

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  The speaker lineup for JSConf 2025 has been announced. It takes place in Maryland this October.

  
  


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  If you love the V8 team's deep dives, they have a new one looking at two new optimizations introduced into V8 for speeding up WebAssembly.

  
  


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  Shopify's William Candillon reflects on the future of advanced graphics in React Native using React Native Skia, and how WebGPU, Three.js, and a new backend called Skia Graphite are changing the game.

  
  


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  The popular and long standing Construct HTML5 + JavaScript game development environment now has full built-in support for TypeScript too.

  
  


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  The Angular team has created a set of LLM prompts and AI IDE rules files to help Angular developers get better code out of LLMs.

  
  


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  Vercel hosted its annual Vercel Ship event this week and they made so many announcements, you'll need this recap post to get through them all.

  
  


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  🕒 The Temporal API proposal is now a Stage 3 Draft.

  
  

RELEASES:

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  Transformers.js 3.6 – Run machine learning models in the browser, Node, Deno & Bun. Now supporting Gemma 3n (though not in-browser yet).

  
  


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  zx 8.6 – Google's tool for better Node shell scripting.

  
  


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  Node.js v22.17.0 (LTS), v24.3.0 (Current) and v20.19.3 (LTS)

  
  


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  Prettier 3.6, Bun v1.2.17, SVGO 4.0

  
  

📖  Articles and Videos

Tips for Making Regular Expressions Easier to Use in JavaScript — Dr. Axel asks us to imagine if we had to write JavaScript without any whitespace or comments, so why should we have to write regexes that way? He has some tips for making the process more pleasant.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

Creating a Simple RSS Server Side Reader — Alex likes that blogs have feeds, but isn’t so keen on modern feed readers, so he put together a surprisingly simple Deno-based approach to scrape feeds and produce an automatically updated HTML page linking to the latest items.

Alex Kladov

How OAuth Works — A practical guide to OAuth Scoped Access with code examples, security tips, and how third-party integrations really work.

Clerk sponsor

📄 Implementing an Undo/Redo System in a Complex Visual Application mlacast

📄 No Time To Learn (Web) Framework X – How can you judge when it’s worth the time to learn something new? Wouter Groeneveld

📄 Comparing Rust, JavaScript and Go for Authoring WASM Components Obelisk

📄 How to Write Compelling Software Release Announcements Michael Lynch

📺 Generating Playwright Tests with AI: Let's Try the New Playwright MCP Server Stefan Judis

🛠 Code & Tools

Hono 4.8: A Cross-Runtime Standards-Oriented Web Framework — Hono is a framework well worth exploring. It’s fast, lightweight, built on Web Standards, and can be used to build apps that work on numerous platforms from Node or Bun to Cloudflare or Fastly. v4.8 adds new route helper functions, improvements to JSX streaming and CORS, a new plugin system for static site generation, and more.

Yusuke Wada and Contributors

LogTape 1.0.0: Universal Logging for JavaScript Apps — Whether it’s in Node, the browser, or edge functions, LogTape is here for you. It’s particularly aimed at library developers who want to add logging in a low hassle way for end users – learn more here.

Hong Minhee

💡 If you want the full sales pitch, Hong Minhee explains why you'll (probably) love LogTape if you're a JavaScript library builder.

🤖 Google Unveils Gemini CLI: An Open-Source AI Agent — Google has dipped its toe into the rapidly growing AI dev agent game with a terminal-based agent, built in TypeScript, with a striking high free usage allowance, making it a good way to give such tools a try if you haven’t so far.

Mullen and Salva (Google)

PLJS 1.0: JavaScript Language Plugin for Postgres — PLV8 has been the ‘go to’ way to use JavaScript as a procedural language within Postgres for years, but this QuickJS-based variant, from the same maintainer, has a far lighter footprint, is easier to maintain, and may be enough for your needs.

Jerry Sievert

Marked 16.0: A Fast Markdown Parser and Compiler — Demo here to see it in action. GitHub repo.

Christopher Jeffrey

Vue Infinity: Virtualized Rendering for Large Datasets — The idea is simple: if it’s not visible, it doesn’t get rendered. A handy way to keep things fast when dealing with large feeds, carousels, dashboards, etc. GitHub repo.

Isaac Tewolde

Spark: Advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting Renderer for Three.js — Check out the live examples.

World Labs Technologies, Inc.

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  📊 Billboard.js 3.16.0 – The popular chart library adds 'trending lines' to bar charts, perf improvements, and other tweaks.

  
  


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  Hako 1.0 – An embeddable, lightweight, high-performance JavaScript engine built atop QuickJS.

  
  


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  React Admin 5.9 – Framework for building B2B frontend interfaces.

  
  


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  📊 AG Charts 12.0 – Full-featured, customizable charting library.

  
  


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  📈 Recharts 3.0 – D3-powered chart library for React.

  
  

🎁 A few bonus items..

Just some things I've seen that didn't fit anywhere else, but I wanted to give a quick mention:

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  🤖 Google has released Gemma 3n, its latest locally-runnable LLM. It performs very well for its size (5B and 8B parameter counts) and if you've got the right hardware, you can run it easily with Ollama and similar tools.

  
  


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  Coder extraordinare Bisqwit is back from a long hiatus with ▶️ a video on cracking game passwords in 1980s NES games.

  
  


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  David Heinemeier Hansson, of Ruby on Rails fame, has released Omarchy – an 'opinionated Arch/Hyprland setup' to get Linux working in an aesthetically pleasing way for software developers, whether using Ruby or not.

  
  


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  A notably buff John Carmack recently gave a talk (complete with his first slide deck ever) about ▶️ his team's work and research directions around machine learning, multi-task learning, and getting AI to play Atari games.

  
  


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  How to disable zsh history for a given shell session – a handy trick.

  
  

P.S. Yes, I actually wrote with a sharpie on my bookshelf for today's header graphic and it doesn't come off so easily. But it was worth it.