✅ "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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#backend #frontend #fullstack #medusa #js

✅ 👩‍💻 One

One is a new React framework, from the creator of Tamagui, that uses Vite, provides universal, typed routing, and unifies React and React Native in an interesting way.

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#release
#frontend #framework #react #reactNative #tamagui #vite

✅ 👩‍💻 balloons-js: An Animated Balloons Effect for Your Site

Definitely needs a plugin that lets you “pop” the balloons with mouse clicks!

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#frontend #fun #js

✅ 👩‍💻 React Folder Structure in Five Steps, 2024 Edition

The latest result of Robin’s efforts at updating his popular posts to 2024 standards. Articles about structuring React apps are always popular; this one breaks the idea down to five steps going from the simplest of apps to more complex ones. Bulletproof React is also worth a look if you need something broader.

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#frontend #react #structure

✅ 👩‍💻 Possible Future CSS: Tree-Counting Functions and Random Values

A look at two possible CSS features (tree counting functions and randomness) from the Level 5 spec, how we can prototype them now, and a look at what their use cases may be — via interactive demos.

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#css #frontend