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Everything will be great! Husband, father of 2, professional software engineer during the work week, and trying to be a helpful developer by night. Cheering on a better web and trying to make it better one issue and pr at a time.
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Preact is about to get much faster with React Compiler support! github.com/preactjs/pre...
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Introducing tsrs: a Rust port of the TypeScript compiler 🦀 We are not forking TypeScript! ◆ In close collab with the TypeScript team ◆ Up to 8x faster than TS 7.0 & ~70% less memory ◆ Runs in WASM (works in your browser & workers) ◆ Soon part of Oxc npx tsrs blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-r...
The React DevTools MCP is now documented! react.dev/reference/de...
How much of this savings is really from the awesomeness of @preactjs.com because Preact is about a 10th the size of React + React-DOM
Shopify moved checkout off React and onto web components. Bundles shrank 40–85%. www.infoq.com/news/2026/10...
Love the innovation on the web platform!
Things I hope to push forward at TPAC: - Declarative fragment / client side include - declarative skeleton/shell - CSS navigation matching - parser/patch reflection in mutation observers - responsive image improvements - connection allowlists - focusreset - CSS module imports Gonna be interesting!
I am excited about Void, but I don't like the brief attack on triangle-logo libraries/frameworks like Vue and Nuxt. Both triangle-logo and circle-logo libraries/frameworks are great! youtu.be/XvfsygYfLDY?...
Wtf, I apparently talk about SolidJS the most on Bluesky. It is a great library, so try it out or have your agent try it out. When you have a chance. wordsky.app/search?q=sol...
React native v0.88 is here, just 12 more versions to v0.100 reactnative.dev/blog/2026/10...
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Unfortunately, you cannot really use Command Invokers in @react.dev because it triggers hydration warnings. It still works (for users), but it's annoying, and it can cause performance issues during hydration. I have a PR to enable it, but it has not been reviewed/merged. github.com/react/react/...
Side-by-side test for building dialogs: standard agent vs. agent with Modern Web Guidance 🏁 Both generate similar UIs, but the guided version skips four separate event listeners in favor of `commandfor` and `command` attributes, with less code overall → goo.gle/mwg
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The Next.js site has a new look! We've redesigned the homepage, /docs, /blog, and more, with a consistent design that keeps the focus on the content. nextjs.org A few highlights ↓
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If AI writes the code, does your framework still matter? Does Solid vs React make a difference? I think so. Join me online with TechTank TO on Oct 22, 7pm ET: one @solidjs.com app built as an SPA, a sync engine, live server components, and zero-JS HTML. luma.com/techtank-fra...
Congratulations on the release! TanStack can be optimized to be very fast! source app : github.com/MaxwellCohen...
TanStack Start 1.0 is officially stable! 🎉 A full-stack web framework for React and Solid, already used to build millions of apps, from Fortune 500 companies to your favorite tools and weekend projects. tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...
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Firefox 158 landed today! For web devs: 🎉 JPEG XL support, including full progressive rendering. 🎉 'navigate' on notifications, so they can go to a URL without firing events. 🎉 WebGPU's float32-blendable 🎉 WebGL's EXT_polygon_offset_clamp And more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...
Interop 2027 voting is here: My top 3 are - `<template for>` out-of-order streaming from Chrome - Computed Heading Level: a great fix to heading order from Firefox - CSS grid lanes (masonry) from Safari interop-rank.fxdx.dev
This is absolutely brilliant! I hope other libraries/frameworks copy this
One minor feature of Preact 11 that we haven't talked about much is the strictly typed aria roles on HTML elements, where possible. In short, `<header role="form">` will now be a type error. Spent quite a bit of time going through the spec docs to build that out, doing our part to make the web more
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I am blown away by @nuxt.com 4.6 new dev CLI/TUI. This is a game changer. I hope that every other meta framework does something like this! I love that it has specific views for network activity (with timing)/ the ability to filter logs for errors/warnings and app info.
ISR/PPR + inline css are absolutely amazing. They have helped my Nuxt site (robots-txt-optimizer.vercel.app) get a perfect mobile Lighthouse score. I was stuck at a 1.9s FCP before implementing these optimizations now I have a .9s FCP! pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/htt...
I am very impressed with Pracht's ability to optimize apps for performance. Adding caching, ISG, and image optimizations can turn an average-speed app into one that gets a perfect Lighthouse mobile score. Link to code: github.com/MaxwellCohen...
This is an absolutely amazing demo!
Next.js 16.4 adds 𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗(), a new API for keeping parts of a route out of prefetches. I built Stamp, a mailbox demo, to try it. Message bodies wait for navigation, so scrolling never downloads emails you don't open. Demo: next16-mail.vercel.app Source: github.com/aurorascharf...
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Next.js 16.4 adds 𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗(), a new API for keeping parts of a route out of prefetches. I built Stamp, a mailbox demo, to try it. Message bodies wait for navigation, so scrolling never downloads emails you don't open. Demo: next16-mail.vercel.app Source: github.com/aurorascharf...
The new 𝚗𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗() API lets you exclude parts of a page from being rendered during a prefetch. Use it to prerender only the most meaningful UI ahead of time, and defer more expensive secondary content until an actual user navigation.
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Very exciting release
Nuxt 4.6 is out, alongside nuxt/cli v4 🚀 🧩 `nuxt/server`, our first big step to a server-agnostic Nuxt 🎯 typed `$fetch` was rebuilt (no more TS2589!) 🔐 `appSecret` + sealed cookie sessions ⚡️ Vue Vapor support 🐛 brand new dev error pages … plus lots of groundwork for Nuxt 5 🏔️ 👉 nuxt.com/blog/v4-6
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I am looking for my next career opportunity! I’m an engineering leader, consultant, author, and open-source maintainer. I've been VP of Eng, written books, get 20M weekly downloads on NPM, and more. Know of a role you think I'd be a good fit for? Book time on my cal or DM me: corbincrutchley.com
This is an amazing talk, but I got the exact opposite lesson from it. React doesn't win on speed (it's fast enough for most use cases), but on API design. When we try to build faster frameworks using React's APIs (JSX, hooks), it creates awkwardness that React does not have youtu.be/A8k9h2stMLU?...
I want to know what will come out of the first React Foundation Contributors Summit react.foundation/summit
I think this is the first announcement of appointments to the React Foundation board of directors lnkd.in/p/gAGNk3jG
Is there a web page with a Mobile First Contentful Paint under 0.8 seconds on pagespeed.web.dev? I think it is possible because of the 4x slowdown on mobile
Congratulations on the Preact 11 release🎉🎉🎉🎉 Preact is tiny in production and also small to install. Congratulations on saving almost a mb on install! npmx.dev/package/preact
Preact 11 is out 🎉 We’ve been hard at work at making our diffing use modern features like moveBefore , leveraging ESM for tree-shaking Preact Compat and ensuring you have a great experience with resumed hydration.