📖 Exploring JavaScript (ES2025 Edition) — Dr. Axel is back with his latest book covering all things relating to modern JavaScript at the language level (think built-in data types, modularity, how objects, classes and promises work, etc.). As with all of Axel's books, it’s available to buy but also to read online in HTML form for free. He’s also produced a set of flashcards to help you learn language features in both HTML and Anki forms.

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

How Notion Cut Typing Latency By 15% — Stop guessing why your web app is slow. Palette’s production JS profiler tells you why, down to the line of code. Get started for free today.

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Biome v2: The First Type-Aware Linter That Doesn't Require tsc — Boasts being the first JavaScript and TypeScript linter that doesn’t require the TypeScript compiler, while still offering type-aware linting rules. There’s a lot to enjoy here, including initial support for linter plugins and improved monorepo support, though note that Vue and Svelte templates aren’t yet supported.

Emanuele Stoppa

Using await at the Top Level in ES Modules — Top-level await is supported in all modern browsers and in Node.js (beyond v16) in .mjs files or .js files specified as modules.

Matt Smith

Clerk OAuth Gets a Big Upgrade — Now Fully MCP-Ready — Clerk OAuth now supports token revocation, consent screens, dynamic clients, & more—now fully MCP-ready. Learn more here.

Clerk sponsor

JavaScript Broke the Web (and Called It Progress) — An esteemed SEO consultant shares his thoughts on the complexity of the modern Web and JavaScript’s role in particular.

Jono Alderson

How TypeScript Solved Its Global Iterator Name Clash — ES2025 adds an Iterator class containing iterator helper methods. However, this class conflicts with TypeScript’s existing types for iterators..

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

<syntax-highlight>: A Custom Element for Syntax Highlighting — A custom element that uses the CSS Custom Highlight API (supported by most modern browsers) for syntax highlighting so you don’t need to retreat to the age-old method of wrapping every token in spans. GitHub repo.

André Ruffert

React Native 0.80 Released — React Native 0.80 lands with React 19.1, a new opt-in set of stricter TypeScript types, and experimental support for prebuilt dependencies on iOS to speed up builds. The legacy architecture is now officially 'frozen', with warnings for APIs slated for future removal.

Cohen, Cucci, Dall'Agnol, and Falch

Handsontable: Spreadsheet-Like JavaScript Data Grid for Your App — Feature-rich data grid for developers seeking a powerful, customizable, and accessible solution to manage complex data.

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react-searchable-dropdown: A Customizable Dropdown Component — A modern, accessible, and customizable dropdown component that supports large datasets with virtualization, lets users create new options, works with both simple and complex data, and is easy to style and extend. GitHub repo.

Lucio D'Alessandro

WelsonJS: Build Windows Apps Using Windows' Built-In JS Engine — WelsonJS = Windows + Electron-like + JS. Optimized for environments with limited computing power.

Go Namhyeon