#​756 — October 10, 2025

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JavaScript Weekly

▶  Vite: The Documentary — From the same creators of the fantastic ▶️ Node.js, ▶️ Angular and ▶️ React documentaries comes an up to date look at Vite, the build tool that has taken the JavaScript ecosystem by storm in recent years. Many luminaries make an appearance to tell their stories, including Evan You, Rich Harris, and Ryan Carniato. (39 minutes.)

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💡 In related news, Vite+ (VitePlus) has appeared, a future, more commercial offering of the Vite toolchain aimed at teams. More news on this next week.

Go from Monolith to Monorepo — Join Mike North for this course on architecting maintainable, fast and light codebases. You'll learn how to refactor a codebase into a TypeScript monorepo using tools like Nx and Lerna — covering dependencies, formatting, linting, performance and more.

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Introducing the React Foundation — At React Conf 2025 this week, it was announced that control of React and React Native is to be moved from Meta to an independent foundation supported by the Linux Foundation and initially backed by corporate members including Amazon, Expo, Meta, and Microsoft.

Webster, Carroll, Savona and Alpert

📺 If you'd like to catch up with React Conf, you can now watch the ▶️ day one and ▶️ day two livestream recordings on YouTube.

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📖  Articles and Videos

The Birth of Prettier — The author takes us back ten years to the genesis of Prettier, the popular opinionated, deterministic code formatter he co-created with James Long. Prettier effectively introduced and popularized the practice of fully-automated AST-based code formatting in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Christopher Chedeau (Vjeux)

15 Recent Node.js Features That Can Replace Popular npm Packages — Many features that once required third-party packages are now built into the runtime itself.

Lizz Parody

⚡ Supercharge Postgres: 2PB Scale & 1.5T Metrics/Day — TigerData makes Postgres the fastest database for modern workloads: 2PB scale, 1.5T metrics/day, no black boxes.

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How to Group Arrays Without reduce() — A look at using Object.groupBy() and Map.groupBy()

Matt Smith

The History of Core Web Vitals — Addy tells the story behind Core Web Vitals, a popular set of metrics for measuring Web performance and its impact on user experience.

Addy Osmani

📄 How to Add Fast, Client-Side Search to Astro Static Sites – JavaScript to the rescue! Ivan Chepurin

📄 Shipping Node.js Packages in 2025 – A dense and helpful slidedeck from a talk given at last week's NordicJS event. Joyee Cheung

📄 How to Animate WebGL Shaders with GSAP: Ripples, Reveals, and Dynamic Blur Effects Andrea Biason

📄 Vue Basics: State Management in Vue David Adeneye Abiodun

🛠 Code & Tools

Viz.js 3.20: Work with Graphviz in the BrowserGraphviz is a suite of open source graph drawing tools of over 30 years’ vintage. Viz.js is a WebAssembly Graphviz build that brings its functionality into the browser. GitHub repo.

Michael Daines

EmbedPDF: A PDF Viewer That Integrates with Any JavaScript Project — No dependencies, supports any framework, and has features like themes, annotations, redaction, search, smooth scrolling, and more – all available via a dev-friendly API. See the docs or try a live demo.

EmbedPDF

🎸 AI Agent Builder with All the Features, None of the Overhead — Shipping an agent-first web app? Use our template with all premium diagramming features and cut your dev time to days.

JOINTJS sponsor

The Coinbase Design System (CDS) React Components Library — The team behind Coinbase has open sourced its component library for React and React Native. There are lots of neat effects in the components, such as this ‘rolling number’ component.

Coinbase

Icebird: Read Apache Iceberg Tables in JavaScriptIceberg is a high performance open-source format for large analytic tables.

Hyperparam

resolve-lexicon: Resolve AT Lexicons Over the NetworkLexicon is a schema definition language used in the AT Protocol world.

Dan Abramov

📰 Classifieds

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📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem

A roundup of some other interesting stories in the broader landscape: