💡 On the topic of package managers, Aube is a new contender from the creator of Mise that focuses heavily on performance.
Still Writing Tests Manually? Meticulous AI Is Here — Notion, Dropbox, Wiz and LaunchDarkly now use a testing paradigm they can’t work without. Built by former Palantir engineers, Meticulous automatically creates an evolving suite of E2E UI tests, delivering exhaustive coverage with no developer effort.
Meticulous
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Node.js v26.0 (Current) is expected later today, enabling Temporal API support by default after an upgrade to V8 14.6. Here's a preview of the release notes.
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Noticed GitHub being flakier than usual lately? Vlad Fedorov has a fresh official update on GitHub's reliability (including last week's merge queue incident).
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🇪🇺 NodeConf EU is back. It's in Bologna, Italy this September 29-30. Tickets are on sale, and here's the CFP if you want to speak.
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Rspack 2.0 – The fast, Rust-based webpack-compatible bundler is 10% faster than v1.7, performs better static analysis, and adds experimental RSC support. Rsbuild 2.0 was released too.
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Nuxt UI 4.7 – Vue UI library with 125+ components. v4.7 adds Listbox, and a Prompt component for displaying copy/pasteable AI prompts.
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🌐 Lingui 6.0 – Popular framework and runtime agnostic JS i18n and l10n library.
What’s Actually New in JavaScript (And What’s Coming Next) — You could read the specs and countless posts about each new language feature or... this post that brings everything relevant and useful from ES2025 and ES2026 into one place. Iterator helpers, Promise.try, Map.getOrInsert, using, Temporal, and much more, are covered.
Neciu Dan
📄 Debugging WASM in Chrome DevTools – Tips on using the Chrome DevTools’ “very capable WASM debugger”. Eli Bendersky
📄 Writing Node.js Addons with .NET Native AOT – You can now write native Node addons in .NET-based languages, such as C#. Drew Noakes (Microsoft)
📄 The Simplest C Function-to-WebAssembly-to-JS Pipeline Peter Cooper
📄 Upgrade Cypress to TypeScript 6.0 Gleb Bahmutov
Nano Stores 1.3: A Tiny (286 Bytes) State Manager — Atomic and derived stores for every major framework (including React) and vanilla JS. Worth a look if a tiny footprint and framework-agnostic design appeal to you.
Andrey Sitnik (Evil Martians)
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🎬 Mediabunny v1.41.0 – Powerful JavaScript toolkit for working with media files.
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hyperid 4.0 – Matteo Collina's fast unique ID generator for Node & browsers.
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Svelte Bricks 0.5 – Svelte masonry component with SSR support.
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focus-trap 8.1 – Trap focus within a DOM node. (Demo.)
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CheerpJ 4.3 – Run unmodified Java apps in the browser.
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qrcode.vue 3.9 – Vue component to generate QR codes.
📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem
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🎵 I've been dying to link to Chip Player JS again for a while now. It's a JavaScript powered online player and repository of over 300,000 MIDI, tracker, chiptune, and video game music files. It's fantastic for background music, and if you can remember a game, it's probably in here. Chrono Trigger's soundtrack is a particular favorite of mine.
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📊 Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts with no JavaScript or images needed. For example:
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🤖 Cloudflare's new Is Your Site Agent-Ready? tool analyzes your site to "see how ready it is for AI agents."
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🤖 Cloudflare has released a set of agent skills to help agentic development tools build on the Cloudflare platform.
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Sean Goedecke explains how good engineers write bad code at big companies.
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If all else fails, just stare at the wall for ten minutes.