𝕏 Devon goes into extra detail 🐦 in this Twitter/X thread. You can also revisit the release of Parcel 2.12.0 to learn more.
How to Add an Onboarding Flow for your Application — Learn to enhance onboarding for your app with Clerk and Next.js: add custom session tokens, configure Next.js middleware for session data, and auto-update user metadata for a streamlined, code-efficient user experience with minimal code.
Clerk sponsor
WinterJS 1.0: A Fast WinterCG and WASM-Compatible JS Runtime — WinterJS initially pitched itself as a Rust and SpiderMonkey-powered ‘Service Workers server’ but now simply boasts being the fastest WinterCG-compatible JavaScript web server full stop. The ability to run JITed JS workloads entirely under WebAssembly is next on their radar.
Wasmer
IN BRIEF:
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Last week we linked to JSR, Deno’s attempt at a new JavaScript registry. If that post was too much to digest, they now have ▶️ a 6-minute video introduction covering the key motivations and features.
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The Astro folks have unveiled Astro DB, a fully managed SQL database designed exclusively for Astro.
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📊 Benchmarking Node vs LLRT/QuickJS.
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f(x) is a fantastic terminal-based JSON viewer app (written in Go, but it can integrate with JS functions) – its latest version supports YAML too.
RELEASES:
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Biome 1.6 – The toolchain gets partial support for Astro, Svelte & Vue files.
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D3.js 7.9 – Popular data visualization library. They launched a fantastic new homepage several months ago too, if you haven’t checked in for a while.
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React Native Skia 1.0 – Complete with ▶️ a launch video.
Comparing JavaScript Frameworks: Templates — A thorough comparison of the template languages used by React, Vue, Angular and Svelte. Interesting analysis and this looks set to turn into a great series.
Maarten Hus
Storybook 8 Released — The popular front-end component workshop introduces built-in visual testing, support for React Server Components, up to 50% faster start times, Vite 5 support, and upgraded Vue and React control auto-generation. There’s also ▶️ a launch video to enjoy.
Michael Shilman (Storybook)
The Playwright Test Generator — I don’t know why I’ve not linked this before, as it’s so useful. Playwright isn’t just a library for controlling browsers from JavaScript, but also includes a tool for generating tests and page navigation code from your own interactions. Hit record, do stuff, and code is written.
Microsoft
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Knip 5.1 – Find unused files, dependencies and exports.
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React Date Picker 6.3 – Simple date picker component. (Demo.)
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OverlayScrollbars 2.6 – JavaScript custom scrollbars plugin.
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🗓 date-fns 3.4 – Modern JavaScript date utility library.
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Slonik 37.3 – Node.js Postgres client with type safety.
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MQTT.js 5.4 – MQTT client for Node and browsers.
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Perspective 2.9 – Fast visualization of streaming datasets.
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Rspack 0.5.7 – Fast Rust-based web bundler.
