---
title: "The coding challenge you don't want to pass"
publication: "JavaScript Weekly"
issue: 795
published_at: "2026-07-21"
canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/795"
---

Plus Nuxt 4.5, Preact 11 nears release, and the launch of an official Three.js conference.        

#​795 — July 21, 2026 

[Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/795)  

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Alicia Sykes  

💡 Alicia also created [Stack Match](https://stack-match.as93.net/), a page that lets you specify your criteria for a framework and shows the best matches. Vue usually wins though!  [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/5f351a17.png)](https://xyops.io/) 

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xyOps sponsor   

[Nuxt 4.5 Released: The Full-Stack Vue Framework](https://nuxt.com/blog/v4-5) — Daniel Roe calls it the biggest release in a while: Vite 8, Rspack 2, experimental SSR streaming, a new `useLayout` composable, and a lot of preparation for Nuxt 5. Nuxt 3 users take note: it goes end of life July 31. 

Nuxt Team   

**IN BRIEF:** 

- [Vue 3.6 is now in Release Candidate stage](https://github.com/vuejs/core/releases/tag/v3.6.0-rc.1) – Vapor Mode, first teased over two years ago, is now feature complete and ready to go.
- [Angular is switching to a yearly release cadence](https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/69817), with v23 scheduled for June 2027, a year after [v22 dropped](https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v22-c52bb83a4664).
- ESLint now offers [official 'codemods' for automating ESLint version migrations](https://eslint.org/blog/2026/07/eslint-codemod-migrations/), with v8→v9 and v9→v10 available.
- 🇫🇷 [An official Three.js conference](https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/07/16/meet-the-speakers-of-the-first-three-js-conference/) is coming to Paris, France, this September 10-11. [Three.js](https://threejs.org/) developer [Mr.doob](https://mrdoob.com/) will, of course, be there.   

**RELEASES:** 

- [Preact 11.0 Beta 2](https://github.com/preactjs/preact/releases/tag/11.0.0-beta.2) – _"One of the last betas for Preact 11,"_ says maintainer Jovi De Croock. There's already [a migration guide](https://preactjs.com/guide/v11/upgrade-guide/) ready to use.
- [WebStorm 2026.2](https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2026/07/webstorm-2026-2/) – JetBrains' JavaScript IDE adds TypeScript 7 support, and enhances support for Svelte and Vue.
- [Astro 7.1](https://astro.build/blog/astro-710/), [Rslint 0.7](https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rslint/releases/tag/v0.7.0), [Rolldown 1.2](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/releases/tag/v1.2.0), [`actions/setup-node@v7`](https://github.com/actions/setup-node/releases/tag/v7.0.0)  

📖 Articles and Videos 

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[How a Fake Interview's Coding Challenge Steals Credentials](https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/contagious-interview-malware-svg-steganography) — A dissection of a North Korean campaign that hides malware inside SVG images in a fake job interview's JavaScript 'coding challenge'. The targeting of job-seeking devs is on the increase, as Roman Imankulov [recently discovered first-hand](https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/). 

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Miris sponsor   

[Handling Concurrency on the Web with Web Locks API](https://tech.olx.com/handling-concurrency-on-the-web-with-web-locks-api-163b7e07eddd) — The [Web Locks API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Locks_API) is a widely available browser API to allow tabs or workers with the same origin to hold and release locks. 

Cesar Contreras   

[Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design](https://www.arshad.fyi/writings/engineering-high-performance-parsers) — A look into how data-oriented design helped build [Yuku](https://yuku.fyi/), a JavaScript parser that's [faster](https://yuku.fyi/#performance) than alternatives like Oxc, SWC or Babel (you can [give it a spin here](https://playground.yuku.fyi/)). 

Arshad Yaseen  

💡 The article is largely about building a parser in Zig but the underlying [Yuku](https://yuku.fyi/) and [Yuku Analyzer](https://yuku.fyi/analyzer/) projects are worth checking out.  

📄 [HTML in Canvas: Rendering Real DOM Inside <canvas>](https://agustinbarrientos.com/writing/senior-eye/html-in-canvas/) Agustin Barrientos 

📺 [The Framework Wars are Over: Why No One Dethroned React](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxRjJPoWBE4) – Kent's take in 11 minutes. Kent C. Dodds  

🛠 Code & Tools 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/hd77f7jirzohktslvrxp.jpg)](https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/)  

[Flint: Chart Specs that Compile to Vega-Lite, ECharts, or Chart.js](https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/) — A Microsoft project that compiles a simple, declarative JSON-based spec of a data visualization into a form that Vega-Lite, ECharts or Chart.js can render. It's pitched at agentic use, but is a simple intermediate format humans could benefit from too. 

Microsoft Research   

[Query Live Data. Skip the Analytics Pipeline](https://www.tigerdata.com/go/trial?utm_source=content-syndication&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=javascript-weekly-newsletter) — TimescaleDB extends Postgres for real-time analytics at scale. No second system, no pipeline. [Get $1000 credit to start](https://www.tigerdata.com/go/trial?utm_source=content-syndication&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=javascript-weekly-newsletter). 

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor   

[unwasm: Import .wasm Files Like Any Other ES Module](https://github.com/unjs/unwasm) — Build-time tooling for when WASM is part of a bundled app and you want it to feel more like a normal module (e.g. `import { sum } from "sum.wasm"`). 

unjs   

[BotKit: Build Standalone ActivityPub Bots](https://botkit.fedify.dev/) — A way to run a bot (or multiple bots) that Mastodon users can see and follow but without needing an account anywhere. Write it all in JavaScript and self-host with Deno, Node.js or even Cloudflare Workers. 

Fedify   

🎨 [Color.js 0.7: 'Let’s Get Serious About Color'](https://colorjs.io/) — A fantastic library for working with colors, following the latest specs. [v0.7](https://github.com/color-js/color.js/releases/tag/v0.7.0) is a big update with support for new color spaces, a new gamut mapping method, and a smarter `display()` fallback for colors not natively supported by a browser. 

Lea Verou and Chris Lilley   

- [Travels 2.1](https://github.com/mutativejs/travels) – Efficient framework-agnostic undo/redo library based on JSON patches rather than snapshots.
- [gridstack.js 13.0](https://gridstackjs.com/) – Mature library for creating responsive dashboard layouts with drag-and-drop support.
- [np 12.0](https://github.com/sindresorhus/np) – Sindre Sorhus's "better `npm publish`" adds support for npm 12 and staged publishing.
- [AngularEditor 3.1](https://github.com/kolkov/angular-editor) – Simple WYSIWYG rich text editor for Angular 22+. ([Demo](https://angular-editor.kolkov.ru/))
- [Pinia 4.0](https://github.com/vuejs/pinia/releases/tag/v4.0.0) – Vue's state-management library gets leaner and goes ESM-only.
- [Bolt 5.0](https://github.com/slackapi/bolt-js) – Slack's official framework for building Slack apps.      

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📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/p3bbkhfkz0skzmdw1wmj.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA)  

- Famously, the only thing Java gave JavaScript was the first four letters of its name. That goes unmentioned in [▶️ this new documentary about Java](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA) (74 minutes), but I enjoyed learning Java's story anyway. It's from the same folks as the fantastic [Vite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmWQqAKLgT4), [Angular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRC9DlH45lA), and [Node.js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0) documentaries.
- 🤖 [ReactBench](https://www.reactbench.com/) is a new coding agent evaluation based around models' abilities to build working, realistic React apps. GPT 5.6 leads the way for now.
- [shadcn/typeset](https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog/2026-07-typeset) is a typography system for rendered HTML that makes font styling and spacing simpler to configure.
- Cloudflare has entirely rebuilt [its blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/) on top of [EmDash](https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/), the [Astro](https://astro.build/)-powered 'spiritual successor to WordPress' it unveiled (genuinely) on April 1.
- 🕹️ If you want to take part in [the next js13kGames](https://js13kgames.com/2026/) game dev competition, the theme will be announced on August 13 with submissions due September 13.
- ✨ An updated list of the [top 100 starred JavaScript projects](https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/JavaScript.md) on GitHub.         

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