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October 7, 2025

JSter #248 - Libraries and more

It takes two to JavaScript

The Winter is coming. Snow in a month or so.

Manifestos

  • A Progressive Complexity Manifesto

Articles

  • How to migrate your website from Next.js to Astro
  • Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note
  • Web Standards and the Fall of the House of Iamus
  • The bloat of edge-case first libraries
  • Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?
  • You no longer need JavaScript
  • state-ref - Building the State Management Library by Jinwoo Kim

Libraries

  • Quiet UI - a UI library for the web
  • React 19.2
  • mini-lit - Lightweight Lit components with shadcn-inspired theming, Tailwind CSS v4 styling, and Lucide icons
  • Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
  • Isograph v0.4.0 — the one with the VSCode extension
  • varlock - Magic env files built for sharing
  • nolimits4web/swiper: Most modern mobile touch slider with hardware accelerated transitions
  • Introducing hx-optimistic: Make Your HTMX Apps Feel Instant
  • PrimeReact - React UI Component Library
  • WebReflection/file-tree: A file tree component for the web

Techniques

  • Progressive Complexity: When Islands Should be a Continent
  • Simple, Accessible Multi-Select UI
  • Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
  • Don't Inherit the Box Model
  • The Basics of Anchor Positioning
  • Unit Formatting with Intl in JavaScript

Security

  • Popular Tinycolor npm Package Compromised in Supply Chain Attack
  • npm Author Qix Compromised via Phishing Email in Major Supply Chain Attack

Opinions

  • React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation

Guides

  • A complete guide to HTTP caching

Performance

  • Obs.js: context-aware web performance for everyone
  • Making Sense of the Performance Extensibility API

Tools

  • Mastro: the simplest website generator you’ve ever seen.
  • Introducing CEM Language Server - The missing LSP for Web Components

AI

  • web-infra-dev/midscene: Your AI Operator for Web, Android, Automation & Testing.
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