Why Don't More Developers 'Use the Platform'? — A thoughtful look at why we often rebuild what browsers already offer, from someone usually on the platform's side. It kicked off an extensive Hacker News discussion, with many arguing native controls and APIs are too limited or awkward to depend on.

Nolan Lawson

Free Course: Build Ambitious Modern Interfaces Faster with OpenAI Codex — Join Katia Gil Guzman for this free Codex course and learn how agentic coding has changed frontend development. You'll cover setup, prompting, feedback, skills, automations, deployment and more.

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Preact 11 Released — Six years after the road to Preact 11 began, the latest version of the popular "alternative to React with the same modern API" is here, with improved hydration, automatic ref forwarding, and an ESM-only package. The upgrade guide covers the changes.

The Preact Team

Nuxt 4.6: A Big Step Towards a Server-Agnostic Nuxt — A meaty release for the full-stack Vue framework with a server layer that no longer ties you to Nitro (pure Vite server builds are now an experimental option), built-in sessions, Vue Vapor support, and a new CLI (Nuxt CLI 4.0).

Daniel Roe

Getting Started with Claude Code Mods — Claude Code has just added support for Mods, a way to extend the agentic coding harness with JavaScript so you can watch events, change behavior, and draw custom UI. Addy builds a mod here in ~80 lines that shows a live 'forecast' of your context window.

Addy Osmani

Friendship Ended with Deno, Now Node is My Best Friend — David felt good about Deno in 2021, but has now returned to Node and is surprised by how much has improved. He ported his site generator back with barely any changes, and doesn't hold back on where he thinks Deno went wrong.

David Bushell

100+ Search Engines. One Simple API — Build with real-time data from Google, YouTube, Amazon, and more. SerpApi delivers structured JSON and Markdown for AI agents and your apps. Skip scraping headaches.

SerpApi sponsor

I Tested 11 HTTP Resilience Libraries — How do fetch wrappers like Ky, ofetch, and Wretch behave if you abort mid-retry? The author of ffetch tested eleven options and found five still attempt retries after cancellation.

Gabor Koos

TanStack Charts 1.0: A Composable, Typed Charting Library — A framework-neutral way to declaratively specify visualizations in typed, tree-shakable JavaScript which are then rendered with SVG or Canvas. The extensive sample catalog (with code) shows off line, bar, pie and area charts, plus heatmaps, box plots, histograms, etc.

Tanner Linsley

SvelteKit 3: 'The Same Framework with a Little More Polish' — Svelte's official app framework gets a cleanup/polish release. Few new features, and remote functions remain experimental, but existing users have some work to do to migrate (though sv migrate can handle much of it).

The Svelte Team

Publish to Miris Straight from Adobe Substance 3D Painter — Stop sharing decimated 3D content. Stream your high-fidelity Adobe Substance 3D Painter assets via the Miris plugin.

Miris sponsor

Effect 4.0: A Smaller Core, Rebuilt Runtime — A ground-up rewrite of the popular library for building reliable apps that handles tricky stuff like resource management, concurrency, retries, typed errors, and more. v4.0 boasts 5x smaller minimal bundles and 86% less memory used per concurrent task.

Sebastian Lorenz

Lightpanda 1.0: A Headless Browser for Automation — A headless browser built from scratch in Zig. With no graphical rendering, it uses a fraction of Chrome's CPU and memory (~35MB memory in a run I just did!). Drive it with Puppeteer/Playwright or, the fun bit, script it with plain JavaScript.

Francis Bouvier