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Anthropic Releases Claude Code SDK to Power AI-Paired Programming
Anthropic has launched Claude Code SDK, a new toolkit that extends the reach of its code assistant, Claude, far beyond the chat interface. Designed for integration into modern developer workflows, the SDK offers a suite of tools for TypeScript, Python, and the command line, enabling advanced automation of code review, refactoring, and transformation tasks.
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Rust-Based Drop-in Replacement for Vite Released, Early Adopters Report 10X Faster Builds
Evan You, the creator of the Vue.JS front-end framework, recently announced a technical preview for rolldown-vite, a drop-in replacement for the Vite bundler written in Rust. Early adopters (e.g., Excalidraw, GitLab) report 3-16x faster builds and dramatically reduced memory usage.
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Google’s “What’s New in Web UI” Talk: Less Custom Component JavaScript, More Web Standards
Una Kravets recently presented in a talk recent developments in Web UI supported by the Chrome team. Some common UI patterns that currently require a significant amount of JavaScript may soon be implemented in a declarative manner with new features of HTML and CSS, with less custom JavaScript, and with built-in accessibility.
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Vitest Introduces Browser Mode as Alternative to JSDOM
Vitest, the modern Vite-native test runner, has introduced Vitest Browser Mode, offering developers an alternative to traditional DOM simulation libraries like JSDOM. The addition of browser mode to Vitest allows tests to run in an actual browser context, offering more realistic and reliable testing behavior for UI applications built with React, Vue, or Svelte.
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Microsoft Open Sources the GitHub Copilot Chat Extension
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced plans to open source over the next few months the code behind the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license and refactor core AI capabilities directly into the main VS Code codebase. The move, if completed, may affect the ability of current for-pay AI code editors to compete purely on features.
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TanStack Releases TanStack Form V1
TanStack has released the first stable version of TanStack Form, a cross-framework form library with support for React, Vue, Angular, Solid, and Lit. This new addition to the TanStack ecosystem joins the existing lineup of popular form libraries, such as Formik, React Hook Forms or Final Form.
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Microsoft Announces Native TypeScript Compiler Port for 10X Performance Boost
Microsoft’s TypeScript team has announced an experimental native port of the TypeScript compiler (tsc), dubbed tsc-go, aimed at providing 10x improvement on build time, drastically reducing cold editor startup times, and substantially improving memory usage. This initiative explores running the compiler (written in Go) without the Node.js runtime overhead.
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Microsoft Announced Edit, New Open-Source Command-Line Text Editor for Windows at Build 2025
At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft announced Edit, a new open-source command-line text editor, to be distributed in the future as part of Windows 11. Edit aims to provide a lightweight native, modern command-line editing experience similar to Nano and Vim.
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Microsoft CTO Details Successes, Challenges, and Commitment to Rust at Rust Nation UK
Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, delved in a recent talk at Rust Nation UK into the factors driving Rust adoption, providing concrete examples of Rust usage in Microsoft products, and detailing ongoing efforts to accelerate the migration from C/C++ to Rust at Microsoft by leveraging generative AI.
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Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support
Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deployment workflows. Experience faster builds, efficient hot module replacement, and robust ecosystem support for modern frameworks.
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JBang Jash Brings Streamlined Process Execution to Java
The JBang team has introduced JBang Jash, a Java library designed to simplify the execution of external processes and shell commands through a fluent and predictable API, aiming to addresses the common complexities and boilerplate developers face when using standard Java APIs like java.lang.ProcessBuilder and Runtime.exec for these tasks.
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LittleHorse, a Java Workflow Engine for Distributed Systems Orchestration
LittleHorse is a Java open-source platform designed to orchestrate distributed systems, addressing the challenges related to state management and the coordination of microservices, external APIs, and human tasks. It allows developers to define workflows programmatically using languages such as Java, Go, Python, C#/.NET, eliminating the need for specialized DSLs.
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Bun 1.2 Improves Node Compatibility and Adds Postgres Client
The Bun team recently released Bun v1.2, with major progress regarding compatibility with Node.js, a key component of Bun’s value proposition. Bun 1.2 also now has a built-in S3 object storage API and a built-in Postgres client that comes in addition to the existing built-in SQLite client.
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Interop 2025: Anchor Positioning, View Transitions, Storage Access Soon Stable across Browsers
The features of Interop 2025 are now known. The list, whose items are to be made implemented and stable across browsers by the end of the year, includes anchor positioning, the View Transitions API, the Storage Access API, and more for a total of 19 focus areas.
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How Airbnb Used LLMs to Accelerate Test Migration
Thanks to the right mix of workflow automation and large language models, Airbnb significantly accelerated the process of updating their codebase to adopt React Testing Library (RTL) and converted nearly 3.5K React test files originally using Enzyme.