JavaScript Weekly Issue 742: June 27, 2025


What’s Coming to JavaScript — The ES2025 spec is great, but what else is coming down the pike? The Deno team has put together a look, complete with code samples, at nine proposals progressing through TC39’s process right now.

Casonato and Jiang (Deno)

Fullstack without Frameworks — Maximiliano Firtman combines vanilla JavaScript and Go to create high-performance apps from scratch. Follow along in this video course and learn more about web components, dynamic client-side routing, authentication, logging and everything in between.

Frontend Masters

Vite 7.0 Released — At five years old, Vite has radically changed the frontend building experience and is an essential tool for many. v7 is an evolutionary step more than a revolutionary one and should prove an easy upgrade from v6.

VoidZero Inc.

IN BRIEF:

RELEASES:

📖  Articles and Videos

Creating a Simple RSS Server Side Reader — Alex likes that blogs have feeds, but isn’t so keen on modern feed readers, so he put together a surprisingly simple Deno-based approach to scrape feeds and produce an automatically updated HTML page linking to the latest items.

Alex Kladov

How OAuth Works — A practical guide to OAuth Scoped Access with code examples, security tips, and how third-party integrations really work.

Clerk

Hono 4.8: A Cross-Runtime Standards-Oriented Web Framework — Hono is a framework well worth exploring. It’s fast, lightweight, built on Web Standards, and can be used to build apps that work on numerous platforms from Node or Bun to Cloudflare or Fastly. v4.8 adds new route helper functions, improvements to JSX streaming and CORS, a new plugin system for static site generation, and more.

Yusuke Wada and Contributors

💡 If you want the full sales pitch, Hong Minhee explains why you’ll (probably) love LogTape if you’re a JavaScript library builder.

Meticulous automatically creates and maintains an E2E UI test suite with zero developer effort. Relied on by Dropbox, Wiz, Lattice, Bilt Rewards, etc.


🚀 Build VueJS forms your way with Enforma — UI-agnostic (PrimeVue, Vuetify, Quasar), schema-ready, repeatable fields, powerful validation.


🪐 Learn from Bun & SolidJS creators, Syntax.fm co-host & more JS stars at the West’s biggest planetarium! See you Nov 17–20 in NYC & online.

PLJS 1.0: JavaScript Language Plugin for Postgres — PLV8 has been the ‘go to’ way to use JavaScript as a procedural language within Postgres for years, but this QuickJS-based variant, from the same maintainer, has a far lighter footprint, is easier to maintain, and may be enough for your needs.

Jerry Sievert

  • 📊 Billboard.js 3.16.0 – The popular chart library adds ‘trending lines’ to bar charts, perf improvements, and other tweaks.

  • Hako 1.0 – An embeddable, lightweight, high-performance JavaScript engine built atop QuickJS.

  • React Admin 5.9 – Framework for building B2B frontend interfaces.

  • 📊 AG Charts 12.0 – Full-featured, customizable charting library.

  • 📈 Recharts 3.0 – D3-powered chart library for React.

🎁 A few bonus items..

Just some things I’ve seen that didn’t fit anywhere else, but I wanted to give a quick mention:

P.S. Yes, I actually wrote with a sharpie on my bookshelf for today’s header graphic and it doesn’t come off so easily. But it was worth it.


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