--- title: "Remix 3 drops React" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 784 published_at: "2026-05-05" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/784" --- Plus Astro v7 alpha, PM2 improves Bun app support, make your own fonts with JavaScript, and a framework-agnostic Vitest? #​784 — May 5, 2026 [Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/784) Together with [![Frontend Masters logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_300,h_70/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/nk0tfdvalivacz8rw7rt.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/ai-engineering/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=javascriptweekly&utm_content=aiengineering) JavaScript Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/vwduhmrqbq1j2ypwelyc.jpg)](https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview) [Remix 3 Enters Beta — It's No Longer a React Framework](https://remix.run/blog/remix-3-beta-preview) — Remix has quite the back story. Created by the duo behind React Router in 2020 and seen as an [alternative to Next.js](https://bejamas.com/hub/guides/remix-vs-nextjs), Remix was [acquired by Shopify](https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/31/shopify-acquires-remix-to-bolster-its-storefront-design-tools/) in 2022 and its core ideas folded into [React Router v7](https://remix.run/blog/react-router-v7) in 2024. Now, a new direction: a full-stack, web standards-first framework with its own UI component model and… no React. 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Rafael Gonzaga **IN BRIEF:** - [Vitest](https://vitest.dev/) is tightly coupled to Vite, but a maintainer has [proposed making it "framework-agnostic"](https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/discussions/10271) to support other build tools and runtimes. - People on Hacker News [got very excited](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880) to discuss an effort by Bun's Jarred Sumner [to port Bun from Zig to Rust.](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5) Jarred [turned up on the thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226) to cool things down. A Rust port _is_ being attempted, but with no long-term intent to _switch_ for now. - The Svelte team has [shared its latest monthly roundup](https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-may-2026), including the news that Svelte [appears in ThoughtWorks' latest _Technology Radar_.](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks/summary/svelte) - Deno is getting [experimental support for `import defer`](https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/32360) ([TC39 proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-defer-import-eval)) and may be the first runtime to support it. **RELEASES:** - [PM2 7.0](https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/releases/tag/v7.0.0) – The Node.js process manager gets a refactor that slashes its dependency footprint, and extends cluster mode and the monitoring agent to Bun apps. - [Astro v7 Alpha](https://astro.build/blog/astro-620/#astro-v7-alpha) – The web framework for content-driven websites teases its Vite 8-based, Rust compiler-driven version, alongside its [v6.2 release](https://astro.build/blog/astro-620/). - [Electron 41.5](https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v41.5.0) – The cross-platform desktop app framework adds support for Touch ID for WebAuthn on macOS. - [Ember 6.12](https://blog.emberjs.com/ember-released-6-12/) – The final 6.x release in preparation for Ember 7.0. - [ESLint 10.3](https://eslint.org/blog/2026/05/eslint-v10.3.0-released/), [Zod 4.4](https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/releases/tag/v4.4.0), [Babylon.js 9.5](https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/releases/tag/9.5.0) 📖 Articles and Videos [Testing Vue Components in the Browser](https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/02/testing-vue-components-in-the-browser/) — Julia sets up integration tests for her components that run entirely in the browser, sidestepping extraneous tooling, and shares issues she ran into around mounting components, waiting on the DOM, filling forms, and measuring coverage. 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