VoidZero is Joining Cloudflare — One of the year’s big moves in JS tooling, as told by Evan himself. The company he founded to build Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, etc. is joining Cloudflare. He’s candid about why (monetization is hard). Good news: all projects stay MIT-licensed, and Evan and co remain in charge.
Evan You
💰 In the Vite team's post, they reveal Cloudflare is starting a $1 million fund to support Vite ecosystem maintainers and contributors.
IN BRIEF:
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Safari 27 (beta), announced at WWDC, includes a standards-compliant ESM loader rewrite improving top-level
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Electron 43 is in beta with big perf boosts, thanks to an embedded Node.js snapshot, bundles cached as V8 bytecode, and link-time optimization on the main binary.
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The Rust port of React Compiler is ready to test (Meta is already seeing "great results") – it's set to be merged imminently.
RELEASES:
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TanStack Table v9 Beta – A powerful headless engine for creating data grids with support for React, Preact, Solid, Vue, Angular, Svelte, and Lit.
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Node-RED 5.0 – 'Low-code' flow programming environment, built on Node.js.
Modern Engineering Values — “I cannot believe that I used to write code by hand!” The creator of Jest and Fate says that as agents write more software, the engineering values that matter shift, with ownership, taste, and strict-but-fast feedback loops at the fore.
Christoph Nakazawa
What Bun Can Tell Us About AI and Open Source — An analyst looks at Bun, whose code is increasingly AI-produced rather than human-written, as a bellwether for whether AI-authored core infrastructure is sustainable.
Stephen O'Grady (RedMonk)
📺 All 17 TanStack Projects in One App – TanStack is now a huge suite of libraries, and if anyone can pull them all into one app, Jack can! Jack Herrington
📄 Everything You Need to Know About Source Maps Neciu Dan
📄 How TypeScript Infers Type Variables Nicolas Laurent
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eslint-plugin-functional 10.0 – Linter rules to disallow mutation and encourage functional programming.
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ts-loader 9.6 – The TypeScript loader for webpack adds webpack 4 support back again.
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🧊 Draco.js – A pure JS Draco mesh loader for three.js by mrdoob himself. (Demo.)
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Taiga UI 5.10 – Popular suite of 50+ components for Angular.
📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem
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Oxide Computer Company's Mitos ASCII Tool (above) converts images into ASCII text illustrations and animations, by way of a built-in livecoding environment (built upon the fantastic play.core).
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🔁 replacements.fyi, from the e18e team, is a handy way to find replacements for npm packages of your choice, whether that's a simpler package, a code snippet that does the same thing, or a native API.
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⚡ Add Obs.js to a page and it adds classes to <html> to customize the UX based on how much performance is available (e.g. bandwidth, CPU, latency). Harry Roberts explains further.
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🕹️ Raymond Camden set out to see if Chrome's built-in AI could play Zork 1, the classic text adventure game.