JSter #256: Libraries and more
May the source be with you.
Future Frontend 2026 takes place in a week! There will be a stream and recordings as well.
Libraries
- fate 1.0 - a modern data client for React
- Elena - Simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components
- hybrids - a web framework with a functional declarative architecture
- antfu/tsnapi - Library public API snapshot testing for runtime exports and type declarations
- millionco/isolet: Package any component into a self-contained, isolated widget
- Vue Data UI
- heerich.js - A tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG
- getelena/elena: Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.
Frameworks
- DaloyJS - The runtime-portable TypeScript framework with supply-chain-aware defaults
- ilha - Build a modern frontend, your way
Tools
- Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - oxlint and oxfmt
- vercel-labs/wterm: A terminal emulator for the web
- ReliCSS - Modern CSS Audits
- kucherenko/jscpd: Copy/paste detector for programming source code
- millionco/cli-to-js: Turn any CLI into a JavaScript API
- yuku-toolchain/yuku: High-performance JavaScript/TypeScript compiler and toolchain in pure Zig 🦎
- Dembrandt
Articles
- The Third Age of JavaScript
- Projecting React
- Next.js vs TanStack Start: Why Next.js Became Tech Debt for Spike
- Polyfilling CSS with CSS Parser Extensions
- Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js
- vinext: One Week, One Engineer, $1,100 in Tokens
Techniques
- React Server Components Your Way
- How we use Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) to turn Workflows code into visual diagrams