JSter #254: Libraries and more
You can’t see it, but it’s JavaScript.
Only two months to this year's Future Frontend conference at Espoo, Finland!
Libraries
- chenglou/pretext - Pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement & layout
- SuperSonic - SuperCollider's Synthesis Engine in the Browser
- tinylibs/tinyclip: A tiny, cross-platform clipboard utility.
Frameworks
- Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
- ArrowJS - Web framework designed for building with agents
- Nitro v3 Beta is here
- Astro 6.0
- StateSurface - Hypermedia inspired state-layout mapping runtime
- Solid.js v2.0.0 Beta - The
is Over
Security
- Securing Local Development Environment Against Dependency Supply Chain Attacks
- LavaMoat - Proactive supply-chain security at runtime
Articles
- Guided Meditation for Developers
- Two React Design Choices Developers Don’t Like—But Can’t Avoid
- Making React ProseMirror really, really fast
- Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
- Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule
- How Strawberry Rewrote 130K Lines from React to Svelte in Two Weeks
Tools
- Vitest 4.1 is out!
- npmx - Package Browser for the npm Registry
- Vite 8.0 is out!
- Penpot - Like Figma but open source
Runtimes
- Announcing TypeScript 6.0
- capricorn86/happy-dom: A JavaScript implementation of a web browser without its graphical user interface
Components
Demos
Standards
- Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
- Source Maps: Shipping Features Through Standards