✅ 🖥 An SSR Performance Showdown

Fastify’s Matteo Collina set out to find the current state of server-side rendering performance across today’s most popular libraries. The first attempt faced negative feedback due to implementation issues, but the showdown has been improved and re-run.

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#frontend #js #vue #react #solid #ssr
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✅ 👩‍💻 react-call: Call Your React Components

Gives you a call(props) function as an imperative way to call a component, even from outside React and with no context providers needed

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#frontend #react #components
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✅ 👩‍💻 Valtio 2.0: Proxy State Made Simple

Turns objects into self-aware proxies so you can access state and subscribe to changes outside of components, add computed properties and more. Designed for React and compatible with Suspense, but also possible to use with vanilla JS

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#frontend #react #js #proxy
#lib

✅ 🖥 The Top 5000 npm Packages by Size, Downloads, and Traffic

An interesting Google Sheets spreadsheet listing the top 5000 npm packages by package size, weekly downloads, and weekly traffic. One package is responsible for 278 terabytes of traffic per week, but the top 5000 add up to several petabytes.

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#frontend #libs #npm #js
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✅ 🖥 Is PHP the New JavaScript?

I’m no real fan of PHP, but there’s been a lot of discussion on social media around increased interest in PHP by developers who’d usually steer clear of it, largely thanks to Laravel. This post tells the basic story and explains what Laravel brings to the table.

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#frontend #backend #php #js #laravel
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✅ 🖥 The Web's Clipboard, and How It Stores Data of Different Types

An interesting exploration of how things currently work with copy and pasting on the web, how different data types are treated, and what the Web Custom Formats proposal is putting forward.

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#frontend #js #clipboard
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✅ 👩‍💻 10 Practical Tips for Better Vue Apps

Take your Vue.js skills to the next level with these 10 practical tips including: script setup, provide/inject, defineExpose, toRefs, and more

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#frontend #js #vue #tips #setup #ref
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✅ 🖥 'Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript.'

It’s long been a bone of contention that Oracle owns the trademark for ‘JavaScript’ (we put out a call two years ago) but this marks the first serious effort to try and change that, including petitioning the USPTO, if necessary. You can support the effort by signing this open letter, joining a vast array of JavaScript luminaries.

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#frontend #js #oracle
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✅ Astro 5.0 Beta Release

The first Astro 5.0 beta is now available! This release includes the now stable Astro Content Layer, their latest iteration on managing content in Astro projects, and server islands, a new way to mix static and personalized content on your site for the best of both worlds.

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#frontend #astro #js #beta #static #ssr
#release

✅ 👩‍💻 WebKit Features in Safari 18.0

Safari 18 arrives alongside iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, along with 53 new web platform features. This new version of Apple’s browser has some interesting features, such as the ability to hide ‘distracting’ items from a web page, new iPhone Mirroring and remote inspection options, and it joins Chrome in supporting View Transitions and Style Queries when testing CSS Custom Properties.

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#frontend #safari #browser #js #macos #webkit
#release

✅ 👩‍💻 A React 19 Cheat Sheet

From Kent C Dodds, of Epic React fame, comes this part cheat sheet, part succinct reminder of some of the new things you can do in React 19, along with (very) brief code examples.

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#frontend #react #js
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