Comparing Tauri and Electron

April 11, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Next.js Fundamentals, v4 — Master Next.js with Scott Moss. Learn React Server Components, Server Actions, dynamic routing, authentication, caching, and edge functions. Create a modern React app, deploy it to Vercel, and level up your skills.

Frontend Masters

Node.js Testing Best Practices — A detailed guide to modern testing in Node from a group of developers who know all about it. It’s on GitHub, but essentially written like a free book covering over 50 battle-tested tips covering areas as diverse as the ‘Testing Diamond’, testing microservices, and simulating flaky networks.

Goldberg, Salomon, and Gluskin

IN BRIEF:

There’s speculation that the npm registry may have wiped all access tokens. If you’re having problems, the status update recommends creating new tokens while they attempt to restore them.
☁️ It’s been a busy week for Cloudflare! It now has an easy way to deploy Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers, you can add a ‘deploy to Workers’ button to your Git repos, v1 of their Cloudflare Vite plugin has been released, and you can now deploy an entire frontend, backend, and database (supporting React Router, Astro, Vue.js, Svelte and more) in one Worker.
The RedwoodJS team has an update on the future of Redwood and what the ‘next epoch’ holds for the React-based framework.
p5.js 2.0 looks like it’ll be with us soon – its eighth beta has just landed. The release notes for beta 2 give an extensive idea of what’s coming.
🇷🇴 The annual JSHeroes conference is taking place this May 29-30 in Cluj, Romania.

📒 Articles & Tutorials

🛠 Code & Tools

Next.js 15.3: Now Including Turbopack Builds — The popular React framework now includes alpha support for using Turbopack for much faster production builds (especially if you have lots of cores available), community support for Rspack, and new navigation hooks.

The Vercel / Next.js Team

Chrono 2.8: A Natural Language Date Parser — Give it a string like “today”, “last Friday”, “2 weeks from now”, or even an entire date and time, and it’ll come up with a date object to suit.

Wanasit Tanakitrungruang

📢 Elsewhere

A quick roundup of other interesting updates and useful resources from across the broader developer landscape:

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Comparing Tauri and Electron

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