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TC39: No to records and tuples, yes to enums

April 18, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

🥚 A Good Friday, if you celebrate Easter at all. We’re taking a little break but didn’t want to take the entire week off, so we have a slimline issue for you today 🙂 We’ll be back to full service next Friday!
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There have, however, been some more positive updates:

It’s worth following Rob Palmer if you want to keep up to date with TC39 goings-on as he’s always sharing the latest news.

RELEASES:

  • Astro 5.7 – The popular content framework gains an experimental fonts API, its sessions API is now stable, and there’s support for using local SVG files as components.

  • WebStorm 2025.1 – JetBrains’ JavaScript IDE – fresh with big AI, Angular, monorepo, and Next.js enhancements.

  • tldts 7.0 – URL parsing library to extract domains, subdomains, suffixes, etc.

  • gridstack.js 12.0 – Build responsive interactive dashboards quickly.

  • Lexe – Package a Node app into a single, small executable.

  • DOCX 9.4 – Generate Word documents from JavaScript.

  • Redux Toolkit 2.7, Bun v1.2.10, Babylon.js 8.3, Rambda 10.0

📖  Articles and Videos

A Flowing WebGL Gradient, Deconstructed — Even if you don’t want to render a neat plasma-style effect on the Web, this is a wonderfully deep exploration of the math and technology behind doing so using simple GLSL code that could be easily understood by any JavaScript developer.

Alex Harri

💡 If you like stuff like this, this CodePen of a GLSL-based swirl effect is neat too.

Advanced React in the Wild — A round-up of case studies showing how five different engineering teams have pushed React to the limit in production and their real-world wins in areas like performance, Core Web Vitals, caching, and more. A lot to enjoy here.

Addy Osmani and Hassan Djirdeh

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