#​772 — February 10, 2026

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npmx: A New npm Registry Package Browser — A smooth, fast way to browse packages on the official npm registry. It’s certainly fast, smooth, and you see more info up front and center - check out the axios page for example. “We’re not replacing the npm registry, but instead providing an elevated developer experience through a fast, modern UI.”

npmx

💡 A particularly nifty feature is the ability to compare packages quickly, in areas like size, dependencies, module format, license, etc.

The Most Loved JavaScript Course Year After Year — JavaScript: The Hard Parts is rated 4.92 on average by thousands of developers. Build real mental models for how JavaScript works, from execution context and closures to async behavior and modern language features.

Frontend Masters sponsor

📊 The State of JS 2025 Survey Results — The results of the annual survey are here, compiling the opinions of over 12,000 JavaScript developers into a flurry of charts in areas as diverse as language pain points, frontend framework choices, build tool usage, how much of their code is AI generated, and what non-JS/TS languages they use.

Devographics

ESLint v10.0.0 Released — This long-awaited milestone completes the removal of the legacy eslintrc config system, introduces a new config lookup algorithm that starts from the linted file (great for monorepos), adds JSX reference tracking to fix scope analysis issues, and more.

ESLint Team

IN BRIEF:

RELEASES:

  • 🤖 Transformers.js v4 Preview – Run ML models in the browser on top of a new WebGPU runtime.

  • Bun v1.3.9 – Run multiple package.json scripts concurrently/sequentially with --parallel/--sequential, faster Bun.markdown.react(), regexps get a SIMD boost, and more.

  • Ink 6.7 – Build rich terminal apps with React. v6.7 adds concurrent rendering and synchronized updates (less flicker!)

  • Ember 6.10 – Cleanups and modernization for the stable, battle-tested framework.

📖  Articles and Videos

It’s About to Get a Lot Easier For Your JavaScript to Clean Up After Itself — A fun technical exploration of Symbol.dispose and using, two new features that’ll ease many headaches around cleaning up after yourself: closing connections, freeing resources, etc. Just watch out for the Muppets…

Mat Marquis

▶  Evan You on Vite, Rust and the Future of JS Tooling — The Vue.js creator joined the Better Stack podcast to discuss his path from building Vite to founding VoidZero and developing a Rust-based JS toolchain.

Evan You and Better Stack

Debugging a Next.js Production Issue with Sentry Logs, Not Just Errors — Lessons from a Next.js production debugging session where understanding behavior mattered more than stack traces.

Sentry sponsor

🤖 Debugging React with AI: Can It Replace an Experienced Developer? — Nadia rigged up an app laced with subtle bugs, unleashed Claude on it, and… watched it fail to impress.

Nadia Makarevich

📄 Why Inngest Migrated from Next.js to TanStack Start Jacob Heric

📄 Implementing the Temporal Proposal in JavaScriptCore Tim Chevalier (Igalia)

📄 What to Expect in Angular 22 Kelly Vatter (Mescius)

📄 Solid.js Best Practices Brenley Dueck

🛠 Code & Tools

Shovel.js: What If Your Server Were Just a Service Worker? — A full-stack framework and meta-framework built around the Service Worker model, using Web APIs wherever possible to provide a consistent server surface across Node, Bun, and edge runtimes.

Brian Kim

VerifyFetch: Fetch Large Files with Resume and Verification Features — Imagine fetch but with the ability to resume downloads, check you downloaded what you meant to download, and fail fast on any corruption. GitHub repo.

Hamza Ezzaydia

Teach Your AI Coding Agent How to Implement Clerk Authentication — One command installs Clerk Skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and more. Your agent learns auth so you ship faster.

Clerk sponsor

🔐 OTPAuth: One-Time Password (HOTP/TOTP) Library — Node, Deno, Bun and browser library to generate and validate TOTP and HOTP one-time passwords used in two-factor auth.

Héctor Molinero Fernández

📺 Shaka Player 5.0: Library for Playing Adaptive Media — Play formats like DASH and HLS in the browser sans plugins. Supports offline store & playback via IndexedDB. (Demos.)

Shaka Project

📰 Classifieds

🎉Notion, Dropbox, Wiz, and LaunchDarkly have switched to Meticulous for frontend tests that provide near-exhaustive coverage with zero developer effort. Find out why.


📸 Add robust 1D/2D barcode scanning to your web app with STRICH. Easy integration, simple pricing. Free trial and demo app available.

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem