✅ 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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#safari #webkit #ios #browser

✅ 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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#vue #interview #javascript

✅ 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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#donate #cloudflare

✅ 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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#vite #vue #js #ts #react

⚡️ 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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#js #mobile #vue #react #angular #capacitor