TypeScript 5.2, Node 20.6, and Astro 3.0

September 7, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

😅 We’re back! After two weeks enjoying the blistering desert heat of Las Vegas and downpours of Storm Hilary, I’m ready to get back to the weekly JavaScript roundups – fingers crossed we’re here each week till Christmas now 🙂
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Peter Cooper and the Cooperpress team

Good news – now SvelteKit supports the View Transitions API too 😉

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Bye to Rome and Hi to Biome for JS Formatting and Linting — First announced in 2020, Rome is/was an ambitious effort to create a unified frontend dev tool to bring ideas from Babel, ESLint, webpack, etc. into one place. After forming a company around Rome and raising money two years ago, things seem to have gone awry, with its key maintainers forking the project as Biome.

Emanuele Stoppa and the Biome Team

⚡️ IN BRIEF:

Version 1.0 of Bun, the notably fast JavaScriptCore-based JS runtime, is due to launch in the coming hours. There’s a livestream and, we assume, a launch post due to land here very soon.
In other ‘alternative runtime news’, the Deno team has announced native npm support on its Deno Deploy platform. They’ve also announced Deno KV is in open beta.
Mozilla: “Over the course of the year Firefox has improved by around 40% on the Vue.js benchmark” – find out why.
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, announced that they’re dropping TypeScript from Turbo (a library commonly used with Rails) in favor of plain old JavaScript. Social media drama ensued.
What’s going on with the Gatsby React framework? Folks are noticing there’s not a lot going on with it lately and that 🐦 Netlify layoffs had a big impact. Netlify does, however, say 🐦 updates are coming.
GitHub has made changes to its homepage feeds. Quite a few people are unhappy about it, though.
“The CSS-in-JS sector has plateaued,” says the latest State of CSS survey.
What’s new in Svelte as of September 2023? Quite a lot.

🎉 RELEASES:

📒 Articles & Tutorials

🛠 Code & Tools

Calendar.js: A Calendar Control with Drag and Drop — A responsive calendar with no dependencies, full drag and drop support (even between calendars) and many ways to manage events with recurring events, exporting, holidays, and more.

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