JavaScript Weekly Issue 728: March 21, 2025 - The Legend of Hanuman

JavaScript Weekly Issue 728: March 21, 2025


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Rsdoctor 1.0: An Analyzer for Rspack and Webpack — A one-stop, intelligent build analyzer making it easier to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. It’s part of the same family of tools as Rspack (a Rust-powered web bundler) but is fully webpack compatible. If you’ve ever asked why your build times are too long, this is for you.

ByteDance Inc.

💡 In other Rust-powered JavaScript tooling news, the Oxlint JavaScript linter is now in beta. Imagine ESLint, but it runs in seconds on large codebases (indeed, it can process Microsoft’s VS Code repo in under a second).

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Add Excel-like Spreadsheet Functionality to Your JavaScript Apps — SpreadJS is the industry-leading JavaScript spreadsheet for adding advanced spreadsheet features to your enterprise apps. Build finance, analysis, budget, and other apps. Excel I/O, 500+ calc functions, tables, charts, and more. View demos now.

SpreadJS from MESCIUS inc

📉 How We Made Our Rich Text Editor Load Faster — CKEditor is a long-standing, full featured GPL and commercially licensed rich text editor but its complexity can come with a performance cost. In this two part series (part two here), the CKEditor team digs into how they’ve recently significantly boosted its performance.

Szymon Cofalik (CKEditor)

Next.js vs TanStack — An incisive essay from a developer who’s had enough of the Next.js approach and has found solace in the approach offered by the increasingly capable TanStack collection of tools (as well as Vite).

Kyle Gill

IN BRIEF:

RELEASES:

📒 Articles & Tutorials

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How to Build a Snake AI Game with Docker and TensorFlow.js — You’ve probably heard about people ‘vibe coding’ games by letting LLMs do the coding work, but what if you want to build a game yourself that has neural network powered elements? TensorFlow.js offers one solution that you could just as easily adapt to non-gaming contexts.

Manvar and Raina (Docker)

React Trends in 2025 — Each year Robin does a post giving his opinion on what trends he sees arising over the next year. Last year, he put his money on Astro, RSCs, Vercel, and Biome – this year he points at React Server Components, shadcn/ui, TanStack Start, React Router, and more.

Robin Wieruch

Introducing Motion for Vue — Motion is a popular and powerful animation library most commonly associated with React, but now there’s a new Vue flavor and it’s feature complete, too.

Matt Perry (Motion)

Reveal.js 5.2: The HTML Presentation Framework — Brings elegant presentations to anyone with a Web browser. v5.2 adds the ability to trigger ‘lightboxes’ where viewers can see images and videos in a way where they stand out more.

Hakim El Hattab

Introducing @clerk/agent-toolkit — Build agentic systems with support for user and organizational management. Compatible with Vercel’s AI SDK and LangChain.

Clerk

  • Gridstack.js 11.5 – Build responsive interactive dashboards quickly.

  • Repomix 0.3 – Pack an entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file.

  • DOCX 9.3 – Generate .docx / Word files from JavaScript.

  • 🖼️ Parvus 3.0 – Dependency-free image lightbox control.

  • BlockNote 0.26 – ‘Notion-style’ block-based editor.

  • 🤖 wllama 2.3 – WebAssembly binding for llama.cpp.

  • Pixi.js 8.9 – Fast, flexible 2D WebGL renderer.


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