JavaScriptcalypse now!

I've been sketching out Future Frontend 2026 and I think we'll have a solid program for the conference again.

Frameworks

• Elysia - Ergonomic Framework for Humans
• CopilotKit: React UI + elegant infrastructure for AI Copilots, AI chatbots, and in-app AI agents. The Agentic last-mile 🪁

Libraries

• fp-pack - A practical functional toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript. If you know functions, pipes, and currying, you can use it immediately
• Announcing jax-js: an ML library for the web
• 2Dphysics - Tiny physics engine written in JavaScript
• Introducing Fate - tRPC with better ergonomics for React
• Base UI is available now
• Automerge - Version control for your data
• dlemstra/magick-wasm: The WASM library for ImageMagick

Articles

• The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs
• JSON Schema Demystified: Understanding Schemas, Dialects, Vocabularies, and Metaschemas

Runtimes

• require(esm) in Node.js: from experiment to stability
• bellard/mquickjs: Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine for embedded systems

Tools

• Introducing Flint - a new linter
• roman01la/blender-react: A Blender addon that lets you create and manage 3D scenes using React components
• Vite 8 Beta: The Rolldown-powered Vite
• Announcing Oxfmt Alpha

Books

• gibbok/typescript-book: The Concise TypeScript Book: A Concise Guide to Effective Development in TypeScript. Free and Open Source.

Jokes

• TailwindSQL - SQL Queries with Tailwind Syntax
• donlon/cloudflare-error-page: Cloudflare error page generator

Demos

• bidicalc - Spreadsheet with a twist

Security

• NPM Security Best Practices: How to Protect Your Packages After the 2025 Shai Hulud Attack
• No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows
• Denial of Service and Source Code Exposure in React Server Components – Update your React now

Resources

• bluwy/tsconfig-grimoire: A collection of sacred information to deal with tsconfig.json for tooling authors and maintainers

Tutorials

• Build your own router