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Rspack 1.0 Released, 23x Faster than Webpack, Compatible with Top 50 Webpack Plugins
Rspack, a new JavaScript bundler that strives to be fully compatible with Webpack, is now production-ready. Rspack 1.0 is compatible with 40+ of the top 50 Webpack plugins. Rspack credits Rust for its performance and touts a 23x build time improvement over Webpack. ByteDance, the company behind it, uses Rspack in applications like TikTok, Douyin, Lark, and Coze.
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Es-Toolkit, a Modern Lodash Alternative
Es-toolkit is a modern JavaScript utility library that offers a preformant, type-safe alternative to Lodash.
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New JavaScript Set Methods Now Supported by All Major Browser Engines
The release of Firefox 127 introduces new JavaScript Set methods, now supported across major browser engines. Polyfills are no longer needed to make them work everywhere. These additions provide convenient, built-in ways to manipulate and compare collections aiming to simplify development and enahnce performance.
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Angular 18 Introduces Zoneless Change Detection
Angular recently announced the release of Angular 18, introducing zoneless change detection, a new developer hub, stable versions of several features, server-side rendering improvements, and more. This release focuses on stabilizing new APIs, addressing common developer requests, and enhancing the overall developer experience.
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Over 100K+ Sites Hit by Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack
E-Commerce security firm Sansec unveiled a new supply chain attack affecting the Polyfill JS service when accessed through a number of CDNs hosting it. According to Sansec, over 100K sites were hit. The original author of the service, Andrew Betts, suggested removing Polyfill from any sites using it.
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Mistral Introduces AI Code Generation Model Codestral
Mistral AI has unveiled Codestral, its first code-focused AI model. Codestral helps the developers with coding tasks offering efficiency and accuracy in code generation.
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JetBrains Aqua IDE for Test Automation Now Generally Available
Aqua, the first IDE for test automation, is now generally available. The IDE supports multiple languages and major testing frameworks like Selenium and Cypress. JetBrains introduces a new licensing model with Free Individual Non-Commercial and Paid Commercial plans. Additionally, Aqua is included in the All Products Pack.
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New Signals Proposal Seeks to Formalize Reactive Programming Primitives in JavaScript
The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language. The Signals proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement reactive programming patterns. It reflects input from authors/maintainers of Angular, Ember, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Svelte, Vue.
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The Deno Team Releases JSR, a New JavaScript Package Registry
The Deno team recently beta released JSR, a new JavaScript registry that strives to better fit the current needs of modern development and unify a fragmented JavaScript ecosystem. In particular, JSR embraces ESM (JavaScript native modules), natively accepts TypeScript packages, and supports major JavaScript runtimes (e.g., Node, Deno, Bun, browsers, miscellaneous serverless environments).
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CO2.js Helps Developers Track Their Application’s Carbon Footprint
The Green Web Foundation published a new release of CO2.js, a JavaScript library that enables developers to access the Green Web API and estimate the carbon emissions associated with their apps, websites, and software. CO2.js supports developers who want to create a carbon budget for their site or include carbon footprint estimation in monitoring tools.
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Running PostgreSQL in the Browser with WebAssembly
With the recently released PGlite, a WASM build of Postgres that is packaged into a TypeScript client library, developers can run Postgres queries in the browser with no extra dependencies. PGlite is used for reactive, real-time, local-first apps.
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Rolldown, a Rollup-Compatible Rust-Based Bundler for JavaScript, is Now Open -Sourced
Rolldown is a new JavaScript bundler written in Rust for performance. Rolldown intends to be compatible with Rollup’s APIs and plugins. The Rolldown project is led by Evan You (creator of the Vue web framework) and is intended to become Vite’s next bundler.
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Phoenix LiveView Promises SPA-Like Interactivity for Real-Time Server-Rendered Apps
9 years after the Phoenix web framework was made generally available, Phoenix LiveView recently reached 1.0 (release candidate). LiveView allows developers to create rich, real-time server-rendered applications without writing JavaScript. LiveView relies on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) to scale to millions of WebSocket connections handled by multiple processes concurrently.
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Expedia Speeds up Flights Search with Micro Frontends and GraphQL Optimizations
Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications. Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization.
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AdonisJS v6 Released: TypeScript, ESM, and beyond
AdonisJS, a Node.js web application framework, has released its latest major release AdonisJS v6. Notable highlights include a transition to ECMAScript Modules (ESM), an improved and simplified IoC container, improved TypeScript integration, and a more straightforward approach to route and controller binding.