IN BRIEF:

• Nintendo uses JavaScript: A developer found that 2015's Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars for Wii U and 3DS was written with HTML and JavaScript and could be run in a normal browser with a shim.
• Chrome 113 DevTools: Allows overriding network response headers including CORS headers and offers Nuxt, Vite, and Rollup debugging improvements.
• Build time reduction: Switching from webpack+babel to rspack reduced build times by 85%.
• Node.js 20: New (experimental) permissions model with full docs.
• React with Preact Signals: Using Preact Signals with React forfeits the guarantee that React will work correctly.
• Angular 16 sneak peek: Details about what's coming up in Angular 16.

RELEASES:

• NodeBB 3.0: JS powered forum system.
• Ink 4.2: Build CLI apps React-style.
• Rspack 0.1.9: Fast Rust-based web bundler.
• create-svelte 4.0: CLI for creating SvelteKit projects.

Articles & Tutorials:

• Smashing Magazine: Partytown is worth considering for running resource intensive third-party scripts in Web Workers.
• Modern Alternatives to Create React App: Lists various alternatives to create-react-app.
• Hot Takes on the Web: Creator of Svelte shares thoughts on frontend trends.

Code & Tools:

• Vuetify: Stoked for features in v3.2, especially global defaults improvements for virtual components.
• w2ui 2.0: A framework agnostic UI library with common components working with vanilla JS or Angular/React, etc. (Demos available).
• Satori: Convert HTML and CSS to SVG, designed for React and JSX.

QUICK RELEASES:

• StatiCrypt 3.3: Password protect a static HTML page.
• tween.js 20.0: JavaScript/TypeScript animation engine.
• supercluster 8.0: Geospatial point clustering library for browsers and Node.
• Mercurius 13.0: Implement GraphQL servers with Fastify.
• htmx 1.9.1.
• Playwright 1.33.