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Rspack 1.0 Released, 23x Faster than Webpack, Compatible with Top 50 Webpack Plugins
Rspack, a new JavaScript bundler that strives to be fully compatible with Webpack, is now production-ready. Rspack 1.0 is compatible with 40+ of the top 50 Webpack plugins. Rspack credits Rust for its performance and touts a 23x build time improvement over Webpack. ByteDance, the company behind it, uses Rspack in applications like TikTok, Douyin, Lark, and Coze.
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Mitmproxy 11 Released: Full HTTP/3 Support and DNS Enhancements
Mitmproxy released version 11, introducing some upgrades, including full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. Alongside the HTTP/3 advancements, this release brings a range of DNS-related improvements, enhanced privacy features, and better handling of modern web protocols.
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Es-Toolkit, a Modern Lodash Alternative
Es-toolkit is a modern JavaScript utility library that offers a preformant, type-safe alternative to Lodash.
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New JavaScript Set Methods Now Supported by All Major Browser Engines
The release of Firefox 127 introduces new JavaScript Set methods, now supported across major browser engines. Polyfills are no longer needed to make them work everywhere. These additions provide convenient, built-in ways to manipulate and compare collections aiming to simplify development and enahnce performance.
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Angular 18 Introduces Zoneless Change Detection
Angular recently announced the release of Angular 18, introducing zoneless change detection, a new developer hub, stable versions of several features, server-side rendering improvements, and more. This release focuses on stabilizing new APIs, addressing common developer requests, and enhancing the overall developer experience.
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Over 100K+ Sites Hit by Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack
E-Commerce security firm Sansec unveiled a new supply chain attack affecting the Polyfill JS service when accessed through a number of CDNs hosting it. According to Sansec, over 100K sites were hit. The original author of the service, Andrew Betts, suggested removing Polyfill from any sites using it.
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JetBrains Aqua IDE for Test Automation Now Generally Available
Aqua, the first IDE for test automation, is now generally available. The IDE supports multiple languages and major testing frameworks like Selenium and Cypress. JetBrains introduces a new licensing model with Free Individual Non-Commercial and Paid Commercial plans. Additionally, Aqua is included in the All Products Pack.
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New Signals Proposal Seeks to Formalize Reactive Programming Primitives in JavaScript
The JavaScript language recently added the Signals proposal (currently in Stage 1) to the list of candidate features striving to improve the language. The Signals proposal seeks to provide common primitives primarily for framework maintainers to implement reactive programming patterns. It reflects input from authors/maintainers of Angular, Ember, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Svelte, Vue.
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The Deno Team Releases JSR, a New JavaScript Package Registry
The Deno team recently beta released JSR, a new JavaScript registry that strives to better fit the current needs of modern development and unify a fragmented JavaScript ecosystem. In particular, JSR embraces ESM (JavaScript native modules), natively accepts TypeScript packages, and supports major JavaScript runtimes (e.g., Node, Deno, Bun, browsers, miscellaneous serverless environments).
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ASP.NET Core Updates in .NET 9 Preview 4: Support for OpenAPI Doc Generation, HybridCache and More
Microsoft released .NET 9 Preview 4 which contains features regarding ASP.NET Core: built-in support for OpenAPI document generation, HybridCache API, and adding static SSR pages to a globally-interactive Blazor Web app. There is also an improvement implemented to avoid 503 errors during an app recycle in IIS.
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Running PostgreSQL in the Browser with WebAssembly
With the recently released PGlite, a WASM build of Postgres that is packaged into a TypeScript client library, developers can run Postgres queries in the browser with no extra dependencies. PGlite is used for reactive, real-time, local-first apps.
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How Airbnb Caters to Users with Low Vision with Accessible Text Resizing
The Airbnb Tech Blog recently detailed how Airbnb enhances accessibility for users with vision difficulties. Through careful implementation of text resizing guidelines, Airbnb maintains web content, functionality, and a good user experience even as the text font size is doubled.
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Rolldown, a Rollup-Compatible Rust-Based Bundler for JavaScript, is Now Open -Sourced
Rolldown is a new JavaScript bundler written in Rust for performance. Rolldown intends to be compatible with Rollup’s APIs and plugins. The Rolldown project is led by Evan You (creator of the Vue web framework) and is intended to become Vite’s next bundler.
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Rust-Written Borgo Language Brings Algebraic Data Types and More to Go
Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go and strives to be interoperable with the existing Go ecosystem. The Borgo language adds to Go algebraic data types, pattern matching, Option and Result types, and more Rust-inspired syntax. The Borgo’s compiler itself is implemented in Rust.
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Phoenix LiveView Promises SPA-Like Interactivity for Real-Time Server-Rendered Apps
9 years after the Phoenix web framework was made generally available, Phoenix LiveView recently reached 1.0 (release candidate). LiveView allows developers to create rich, real-time server-rendered applications without writing JavaScript. LiveView relies on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM) to scale to millions of WebSocket connections handled by multiple processes concurrently.