#javascript

A profile of Kuroba Studio, a small Caen team bringing strategy, visual design and custom web development together around practical digital projects.

Rolldown [v1.1.4](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/releases/tag/v1.1.4), published 2026-07-01T14:02:02Z, ships one feature change and 19 bug fixes. The feature change is a partial reversal of the [v1.1.0 default-flip](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/releases/tag/v1.1.0) that landed on 2026-06-03: `experimental.lazyBarrel` is now disabled by default again, after four weeks of correctness reports against the default-on behaviour. The release also hardens the dev-mode path by forcing `lazyBarrel` off whenever `experimental.devMode` is set (PR [#10060](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/pull/10060)), on top of the existing force-off for `treeshake`. The default-flip revert (PR [#10071](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/pull/10071)) and the dev-mode fix both author as one line each: "disable `experimental.lazyBarrel` by default" and "fix(dev): disable lazy barrel in dev mode", and the root-cause tracking is the new [issue #10085](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/issues/10085) "Tracking strictExecutionOrder correctness and architecture issues", opened the day after the release. The release follows [Rolldown v1.1.3](https://github.com/rolldown/rolldown/releases/tag/v1.1.3) (2026-06-24) and is the first release since 1.1.0 to touch the lazyBarrel config surface.

Prettier 3.9.0, released June 27, 2026 (prettier/prettier, blog post by Fisker Cheung), is a parser-heavy release that upgrades Markdown from remark-parse v8 to micromark v4 (better CommonMark and GFM compliance and a stack of long-standing bug fixes), YAML to yaml v2, GraphQL to GraphQL.js v17 (fragment arguments and directives on directive definitions), Flow to the Flow team's new Rust-based oxidized parser (roughly 37% faster on Prettier's valid Flow fixtures and 43% faster on flow_parser.js in local parser-only benchmarks), and Angular. The JavaScript and TypeScript printer is reworked too, particularly in --no-semi mode where comments around break and continue are now stable across repeated formats (an idempotency fix), plus redundant parenthesis removal in return statements, embedded-template interpolation alignment, and logical-not inlining. The release drops the legacy import ... assert {} syntax (Babel 8 removed the parser plugin; migrate to with), fixes a silently broken --cache-strategy content option, and stops EditorConfig files above Git worktrees from leaking in. The team reiterates pinning the exact version in package.json because the formatting changes will produce diffs.

Playwright v1.61.0 (June 15, 2026) ships a virtual authenticator for WebAuthn/passkey ceremonies, a first-class page.localStorage / page.sessionStorage API, network security details on API responses, and brings test runner video recording to parity with trace recording. Browser channels: Chromium 149, Firefox 151, WebKit 26.5.

Vite 8.1.0-beta.0 (June 15, 2026) is the first beta of the 8.1 line. It ships the WASM ESM Integration standard as direct .wasm imports, a build.chunkImportMap option that uses import maps to improve chunk cache hit rates, integration with Vite Task for zero-config build caching, support for lightningcss plugin dependencies, and a breaking rename of every `server.hmr` option to `server.ws`.

esbuild v0.28.1 (June 11, 2026) is the first release since April. It fixes a CVSS 8.1 remote code execution in the Deno API via NPM_CONFIG_REGISTRY, a Windows-only dev-server path traversal, and a minifier bug that silently broke `using` and `await using` resource disposal.

Biome's CLI hits 2.5.0 and the JavaScript API moves to a major v6.0.0. The headline is a new spanInBytesToSpanInCodeUnits helper that fixes a real bug in non-ASCII text extraction, plus a long list of SCSS, JSON, linter, and CLI improvements.

Wiz Research uncovers Miasma, a new supply chain attack abusing trusted-publishing to inject credential-stealing malware into 32+ Red Hat npm packages.

The 2026 State of Web Dev AI survey of 7,258 developers reveals the AI-generated code share hit 54%, AI coding agents are rising, and 60% of respondents believe we are in an AI bubble.

Astro 6.4.4 is a patch release fixing issues with dynamic routes, i18n domain routing, client-side component editing, and route pattern casing.

Rolldown 1.1.0 introduces two notable behavior changes: experimental.lazyBarrel is now enabled by default, and tsconfig project-reference resolution has been updated to match TypeScript's behavior.

Turborepo's latest stable releases add heap allocation profiling via OpenTelemetry traces, fix pnpm injected peer package handling, harden OTEL endpoint validation, and address PTY shutdown hangs and npm tlog publish retries.

Astro 6.4 introduces an optional Rust-powered Sätteri markdown processor, a new configurable markdown.processor option, and adapter-level server directory preservation.

Deno 2.8 drops with four new CLI subcommands, improved Node.js compatibility, and a Rust-based package packager targeting npm registries.

Next.js 16.3.0-canary brings fine-grained prefetch configuration, better deduping for the 'use cache' directive, and a redesigned blocking route dev overlay, with sccache now bootstrapped via cargo-binstall.

Oxc v0.126.0 ships support for Turbopack magic comments in the parser, a breaking rename of Box and Vec allocator methods, new NAPI transform options for enum optimization, and continued performance work on the lexer and allocator.

Svelte's March update brings createContext for programmatic component instantiation, HTML comments inside tags, SSR error boundaries, and navigation callbacks with scroll position data.

TypeScript 6.0 lands as a bridge release with new features like #/ subpath imports, stable type ordering, and a path toward TypeScript 7.0's native Go codebase.

Vue 3.6 has entered beta with the completion of Vapor Mode, a virtual-DOM-free compilation path, and a major reactivity system overhaul based on alien-signals, promising significant performance gains.

Vite+ Alpha drops today under MIT license, unifying Vite, Vitest, Oxlint, Oxfmt, and Rolldown into a single vp binary. Node.js runtime and package manager management included.

Bun's latest release adds WebView for headless browser automation, lands TC39's using/await using in JavaScriptCore, and delivers a 2.3x speedup to URLPattern.

For decades, centering text vertically in buttons, badges, and layouts felt slightly off. The culprit: leading space, invisible padding built into every font's metrics. Two CSS properties now solve this at different levels: text-box-trim for inline text and margin-block with cap/lh units for block layouts.

WebKit, Google, and Mozilla just released JetStream 3, the first major overhaul of the benchmark suite since 2019. It drops microbenchmarks in favor of realistic workloads, rewrites WebAssembly scoring, and introduces Dart, Kotlin, and Rust compiled to Wasm.

Google has open sourced JSIR, a next-generation JavaScript analysis tool built on MLIR. It supports both high-level dataflow analysis and lossless source-to-source transformation, used internally for Hermes bytecode decompilation and AI-powered JavaScript deobfuscation.

QuickBEAM is a JavaScript runtime that runs inside the BEAM VM, the same virtual machine powering Erlang and Elixir. It integrates JavaScript into OTP supervision trees, lets JS call Elixir functions and OTP libraries, and ships with a built-in TypeScript toolchain.

Astro 6.1 lets you tune Sharp's encoder settings at the pipeline level, adds advanced SmartyPants configuration, and exposes i18n fallback routes to the integration hook system. Cloudflare acquisition continues to shape the roadmap.

Vite 8.0.0 shipped stable on March 12, and the patch releases haven't stopped, v8.0.7 landed April 7 with fixes across CSS, SSR, WASM, and dev server behavior. A contrast to the long beta cycle.

Deno 2.7 is a substantial mid-cycle release: the Temporal API is now production-ready, native Windows on ARM builds land, npm overrides work like in Node, and dozens of Node.js compatibility improvements land across worker_threads, child_process, zlib, and sqlite.

ESLint's biggest breaking-change release in years finalises flat config, removes eslintrc support entirely, and adds JSX reference tracking. But the bigger story might be what's nipping at its heels.

Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, AWS, and Google Cloud all signed the same public contract. Next.js 16.2 makes cross-platform deployment a first-class, documented feature.

The pure TypeScript NumPy implementation reaches a correctness milestone: random number generation now matches NumPy bit for bit, Float16 lands as a first-class dtype, and the package no longer needs per-runtime entry points.

Two poisoned releases of axios, one of the most widely-used Node.js HTTP client libraries, were published and pulled from npm within hours. Here's what happened, how the attack worked, and what you need to do right now.

Astro 6.0 and 6.1 land within weeks of each other, bringing an experimental Rust compiler, request-time content collections, a built-in Fonts API, CSP tooling, and deeper Cloudflare integration, all while the framework doubles its adoption for the third year running.

The State of JavaScript 2025 survey shows TypeScript exclusive usage at 40%, Vite satisfaction at 98% versus Webpack's 26%, and Claude doubling its developer share. The ecosystem is maturing rather than churning.

The Vite 8 beta drops ESBuild and Rollup in favor of Rolldown, signaling a full Rust-based future for the JavaScript build toolchain. What changes, what breaks, and why it matters.

The State of JavaScript 2025 survey reveals TypeScript usage at an all-time high, Vite crushing Webpack in satisfaction, and growing concerns about Next.js complexity.

Three JavaScript runtimes. Three different philosophies. Independent benchmarks across HTTP throughput, cold starts, and async performance tell a clearer story than marketing ever could. Here's the brutally honest breakdown for developers choosing their next server-side JS platform.

VoidZero's Vite+ promises to unify runtime, package manager, bundler, linter, formatter, and test runner under a single command. We read the announcements, benchmarked the claims, and talked to people using it in production. Here is what we found.