Rust Is Eating JavaScript (Still, in 2026) — Our most-read link of 2021 gets an update for 2026. Lee Robinson (then Vercel, now Cursor) predicted Rust would be used to reimplement more and more JavaScript ecosystem tooling, and Rspack, Biome, Turbopack, and Bun's recent rewrite keep proving him right.
Lee Robinson
IN BRIEF:
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😄 htmx 4.0 is, curiously, pitching itself as "the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy" with a commemorative cartridge.
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At last week's TC39 meeting, Await Dictionary (
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Ryan Dahl says that
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Node.js has a new API docs site in preview (now includes search!)
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pnpm has had a flurry of releases introducing native workspace release management, a
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React 19.2.8, 19.1.9 and 19.0.8 to fix a potential DoS vulnerability in server function endpoints.
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Ember 7.1 – Adds a wide variety of new helpers and operators, and docs modernization.
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Nuxt 4.5.1 and 3.21.10 – Security patch releases after last week's big Nuxt 4.5 release.
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ESLint 10.8, Deno 2.9.4, Prisma 7.9, React Router 8.3, Vue 3.6 RC2
▶ The Creator of TypeScript Shows Off TypeScript 7 — Anders Hejlsberg demos the 10x speedup gained by the new Go-based TypeScript compiler on VS Code's 1.3M line codebase. He also covers the new LSP language server and why compiler API users (Vue, Astro, Svelte) must stay on TypeScript 6.
Anders Hejlsberg (Microsoft)
Shadscan: Deterministic UI Audits for shadcn Apps — A tool that statically analyzes your shadcn components using almost 60 deterministic checks (no AI or API keys needed) around fundamental accessibility, state, and composition best practices.
OrcDev
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Slick 2.0 – Ken Wheeler's classic jQuery carousel control (demos). Now compatible with jQuery 4.0!
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isomorphic-git 1.40 – Pure JS implementation of Git for Node and browsers.
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Satori 0.29 – Library to convert HTML and CSS with JSX syntax into SVG.
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dompdf.js 2.0 – Converts HTML to multi-page PDFs in the browser.
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Verdaccio 6.9 – Self-hostable Node.js private proxy registry.
📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem
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js1024 is an annual JavaScript code-golfing competition where people try to squeeze as much out of 1024 bytes as possible. This year's run just closed and you can try all the entries (and see their code) here – the winners will be announced next week.
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🏆 The OpenJS Foundation has a ranking of the top contributors to its projects (which include Node, Express, and Electron) in the past year.
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🤖 In How I Stopped Running Out of Tokens, a dev whose company uses Claude Enterprise shares tools you can use (e.g. rtk) to get more out of your limits.
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LLMs are continuing to hallucinate package names, giving potential 'slopsquatters' opportunities for malicious deeds.