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Big Node, VS Code, and Mantine updates

May 9, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

k6 1.0: Go-Powered Load Testing with JavaScript — A full-featured, configurable load generation tool that uses the Sobek Go-powered JavaScript engine to support writing test scripts in JavaScript. v1.0 promises stability, first-class TypeScript support, and better extensibility.

Grafana Labs

Node 24 (Current) Released — Node’s release lines are shifting a little lately – v18 has gone EOL and now v23 gives way to v24 as the ‘Current’ release for when you need the cutting edge features. It comes with npm 11, V8 13.6 (hello RegExp.escape, Float16Array, and Error.isError), the URLPattern API exposed by default, plus Undici 7.

Node.js Team

💡 Technically, Node v24.0.1 is the latest version temporarily reintroducing an EOL feature due to breakages in popular dependencies.

Visual Studio Code Version 1.100 — Not to be confused with a 1.1 release, this update to VS Code has quite a few goodies for JavaScript developers with improved ‘Next Edit Suggestions’ that will suggest adding missing imports, support for Node’s enhanced network debugging capabilities, improved visibility of type information, remote MCP server support, GPT 4.1 as the new default base model, and more.

Microsoft

RELEASES:

  • 🤖 ESLint v9.26.0 – An interesting release for the popular static analysis tool as it adds support for MCP as a way for ESLint to be used directly by AI models and coding agents.

  • 🗾 Mapbox GL JS 3.12 – Interactive, customizable vector maps in the browser, rendered with WebGL.

  • Relay v19 – Facebook’s declarative React/GraphQL framework.

  • Material UI 7.1 – React components using Material Design. Now Tailwind CSS 4 compatible

  • Rspack 1.3.9, Babylon.js 8.7, Electron 36 (official blog post)

📖  Articles

React Server Components for Astro Developers — Astro’s ‘island’ architecture and React Server Components share a strikingly similar mental model. Dan compares the two, digs into some of the quirks, and suggests Astro offers a ‘gentler onramp’ to some of RSC’s ideas if you’re struggling with them.

Dan Abramov

📄 ‘Electron Ain’t Bad, Actually’ – Worth re-reading next time you see the clichéd criticisms of Electron. Vaxry

📺 The React Compiler Explained in Three Minutes Better Stack

📄 You’re Misunderstanding DDD in Angular Tomasz Ducin

📄 The Story of Fastify + Vue Jonas Galvez

🛠 Code & Tools

Introducing Clerk Billing — Clerk Billing lets you add B2C/B2B subscriptions with no payment code or UI work—just drop in components and go.

Clerk

Hyparquet: Parquet File Parser for JavaScript — Parquet is a popular column-oriented data file format frequently used for storing large datasets for analysis. Hyparquet is a dependency-free JavaScript library for working with Parquet files, even in the browser (as in this demo).

Hyperparam

🔊 react-sounds: Add Sound Effects to React Apps — Having sound effects on the Web might sound like your idea of a nightmare, but this is a well put together project with delicate, well thought out examples that strike the right tone.

Aedilic Inc.

mono-jsx: <html> as a Response — A server-side JSX runtime that renders <html> to a Response with no build step needed and works across numerous server-side JS runtimes.

Je Xia

👀  Elsewhere..

Here’s a selection of things from the broader ecosystem we’ve noticed this week:

P.S. If you’re into React or Node.js, we focus more directly on those in React Status and Node Weekly respectively, so check out the latest issues of those too 🙂
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