✅ Vite 7.0 is out!

We're happy to share the release of Vite 7! It has been 5 years since Evan You sent the first commit to the Vite repo, and nobody could have predicted how much the frontend ecosystem would change since then. Most modern frontend frameworks and tools are now working together, building on top of Vite's shared infrastructure.

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✅ Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New?

It’s that time of year again. The Ecma General Assembly has approved the ES2025 language specification, which you can read in full here if you have a gallon of coffee to hand

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✅ Nitro v3: What’s Coming with Nuxt 5

Heads-up! Nitro v3 is still under active development. The features and APIs discussed here can change before the final release. Nuxt 5 will ship with Nitro v3 once it's stable.

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✅ Astro 5.11

Astro 5.11 is a small minor that ships with new CSP features and the ability to opt out of HTML streaming when using the Node.js adapter.

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✅ Announcing Nuxt 4.0

Nuxt 4.0 is here! A thoughtful evolution focused on developer experience, with better project organization, smarter data fetching, and improved type safety.

Nuxt 4 is all about making your development experience smoother:

- Cleaner project organization with the new app/ directory structure
- Smarter data fetching - they've taken the opportunity to address some inconsistencies and improve performance with the data layer
- Better TypeScript support with project-based separation between the different contexts in your project - app code, server code, shared/ folder, and configuration
- Faster CLI and development with adoption of internal sockets and a faster CLI

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✅ Plate: Roll Your Own Rich-Text Editor

A framework for building React-based rich text editors lets you select the specific features and functionality you need, plus it has very thorough docs.

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#react #js #shadcn #frontend #md #editor

✅ Uppy 5.0: Powerful, Modular JavaScript File Uploader

Upload not just from local sources but also remote services like Dropbox or Google Drive. Integrates with React and supports resumable uploads too.

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#js #files

✅ New in ESLint v9.34.0: Multithread Linting

A common feature of tools like Rslint, Biome, and Oxlint, is being 'Nx times faster' than ESLint, but the latest ESLint has a trick up its sleeve and can now process multiple files at the same time, dramatically reducing lint times for large projects.

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✅ Nuxt 4.1

Nuxt 4.1 is out - bringing enhanced build stability, better development experience, and powerful new features for module authors!

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✅ Google Chrome at 17 Years Old: A History

An amazingly thorough walkthrough here of Chrome’s origins, notable rise, and evolution over the years. Addy looks at various key milestones (multi-process architecture for example), and shares quite a few behind-the-scenes browser tidbits too. A good read.

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✅ Mediabunny: A Complete Media Toolkit for JavaScript

Supporting both browsers and Node.js, this library lets you read, write and convert popular media file formats (e.g. MP4, MP3, and more) without needing to lean on dependencies like FFmpeg. You can make thumbnails, extract metadata, write code that gets converted into a video, and more

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#js #frontend #media #media

✅ Electron 38.0.0

Electron 38.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 140.0.7339.41, V8 14.0, and Node 22.16.0.

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#js #electron #chromium #desktop

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✅ WebKit Features in Safari 26.0

With the release of macOS 26, iOS 26, et al. comes a major release of Safari. This is a bumper look at what’s new in the now-available Safari 26. Features landing include anchor positioning, scroll-driven animations, the <model> element (for embedding 3D models onto pages), the CSS progress() function, SVG icon support, and now "every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS."

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✅ Evan You interview

Interview with Evan You covering Vue.js origins, Google's background, the Next.js–Nuxt relationship, and current projects.

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✅ ESLint v9.36.0 released

Release highlights fix edge cases in preserve-caught-error and deeply freeze all config objects exported from @eslint/js.

Includes bug fixes for rule option types and Scope.type, and updates to eslint-all.js, rules.d.ts, docs, and dependencies

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✅ Cloudflare Donates $150,000 to Support Astro's Open Source Mission

Cloudflare is announced as a new partner, accompanied by a $150,000 donation to the Astro open-source project.

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✅ Bun is joining Anthropic

Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Claude Code ships as a Bun executable to millions of users. If Bun breaks, Claude Code breaks. Anthropic has direct incentive to keep Bun excellent.

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#ai #bun #js #claude

✅ Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite

The first beta of Vite 8, powered by Rolldown, is now available. Vite 8 ships significantly faster production builds and unlocks future improvement possibilities.

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⚡️ IN BRIEF

🔒 Let's Encrypt will be gradually reducing the validity period of certificates it issues from 90 days to 45 days over the course of the next two years.

↔️ The Piccalilli team has made the Introduction to Asynchronous JavaScript chapter of their JavaScript for Everyone course free to read online.

👋 After almost 14 years Addy Osmani is leaving the Chrome team, although he's staying at Google.

🎉 WordPress 6.9 has been released.

⚠️ The React team has announced a critical security vulnerability in React Server Components which affects apps that support RSCs, including (some) Next.js apps.

🎄 The Advent of Code is taking place right now with 12 days of puzzles to solve. Advent of Svelte is sharing 25 different Svelte-related tips over the month

✔️ WebGPU is now supported across all major browsers.

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✅ Announcing Capacitor 8

Capacitor continues its rapid growth in 2025, with weekly downloads approaching one million and hitting a new peak of nearly 930,000 in mid-November.

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