✅ 🖥 Announcing TypeScript 5.7 Beta

The newest TypeScript is on the way. As always, a true laundry list of enhancements and new features, but the path rewriting for relative paths is a particularly welcome addition, enabling easy rewrites of .ts imports into .js at compile time.

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✅ 🔥 Uh-oh, .io? The Disappearance of an Internet Domain?

The British government recently announced it was transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. But how can geopolitics alter digital infrastructure? The decision may result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry’s much-loved (though problematic) top-level domains: .io.

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✅ 👩‍💻 Build a Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO

The theme of lightweight JavaScript apps continues with a look at creating a basic RSS feed reader, that updates once a day, with Astro.

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#frontend #static #astro #rss
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✅ 👩‍💻 The Simplest Method to Create a Vue.js Component Library (with UnJS and TypeScript)

In 2021, Estéban attempted to build his first Vue.js component library. It was a challenging experience. He was unsure about whether he needed to transpile Vue files, how to export components, and how to bundle them with composables and utilities. However, times have changed, and with the right tools, it's now easier than ever.

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#frontend #vue #js #ts #components #lib
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✅ "Automattic is Doing Open Source Dirty"

DHH (of Ruby on Rails fame) chimes in on the ongoing WordPress saga, which seems to show no sign of abating soon. He states a concern “about the integrity of open source licenses”, adding that such “integrity is under direct assault by Automattic’s grotesque claim for WP Engine’s revenues”.

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✅ 👩‍💻 Searching for a New CSS Logo

Did you know that there's an active, ongoing search for a logo to help visualize all things CSS and “aid in the marketing and promotion of the new CSS era”? There’s a bunch of discussion and suggested designs being shared in the CSS-Next repo

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#frontend #css #logo
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✅ 👩‍💻 Next.js 15 RC 2

Following the announcement of the first Next.js 15 Release Candidate back in May, they’ve been preparing a second Release Candidate based on your feedback. Here’s what they’ve been working on:

- next/codemod upgrade: Easily upgrade to the latest Next.js and React versions.
- Turbopack for development: Performance improvements and Next.js 15 stability target.
- Async Request APIs (Breaking): Incremental step towards a simplified rendering and caching model.
- Server Actions: Enhanced security with unguessable endpoints and removal of unused actions.
- Static Indicator: New visual indicator shows static routes during development.
- next/form: Enhance HTML forms with client-side navigation.
- next.config.ts: TypeScript support for the Next.js configuration file.
instrumentation.js (Stable): New API for server lifecycle observability.
- Development and Build improvements: Improved build times and Faster Fast Refresh.
- Self-hosting: More control over Cache-Control headers.
- Linting: Added support for ESLint 9.

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#release
#frontend #react #next

UPDATE

✅ 👩‍💻 Next is 15

Next.js 15 is officially stable and ready for production. This release builds on the updates from both RC1 and RC2. They've focused heavily on stability while adding some exciting updates they think you'll love

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#frontend #react #next #js

✅ 🖥 JS0/JSSugar: 'The Tooling Will Continue Until Morale Improves'

In a rather quirky slidedeck presented at TC39 recently, an idea was floated to call the language JS engines implement ‘JS0’ and a myriad of features that have to be compiled to JS0 ‘JSSugar’. It might not surprise you that this idea is considered.. controversial and 😉 Theo Browne did a 25-minute video digging into it further.

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✅ Medusajs v2.0

Medusa 2.0 is a complete rewrite of our architecture and feature set with breaking changes to many areas of Medusa 1.0. While they recognize this may be disruptive for their users, they deemed these changes necessary to establish the proper foundation for their vision of the future of building applications with Medusa.

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