InfoQ - Web Development

Changesets v3: Bumps Peer Dependents by Patch and Ships ESM Only with an 88% Smaller Install

Daniel Curtis — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Changesets v3.0, released on August 11, 2026, introduces significant updates for JavaScript monorepos. It offers leaner installations, a rebuilt CLI, and changes to peer dependency management that resolve long-standing complaints. Upgrading involves configuration updates. The tool focuses on versioning and changelogs while supporting contributors in declaring release intents.

By Daniel Curtis

Out-of-Order HTML Streaming Moves from JS Frameworks into the Browser

Bruno Couriol — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:57:00 GMT

Out-of-order HTML streaming, a user experience pattern popularized by front-end frameworks and that allows users to view and interact faster with a page before it is entirely loaded, is making its way to web browsers. The proposal has the browser patching placeholders as data arrives. Developers can use either declarative HTML or matching JavaScript APIs. Available in Chrome 151.

By Bruno Couriol

Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks

Bruno Couriol — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:51:00 GMT

Bun creator Jarred Sumner recently announced that Bun, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime, bundler and package manager has been rewritten from Zig to Rust. The rewrite seeks to eliminate recurrent memory safety vulnerabilities via Rust’s borrow checker. The AI-assisted rewrite was released after 4 months of work instead of the estimated one year.

By Bruno Couriol

SolidStart 2: Replaces Vinxi with a Vite 8 and Enters Maintenance as its Role Winds down

Daniel Curtis — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:23:00 GMT

SolidStart, a full-stack meta-framework based on SolidJS, has transitioned to version 2.0, improving compatibility with Vite's Environment API. This release modernizes the framework, enhancing CSS handling and integrating better with tools like Tailwind CSS and deployment services. Following this, SolidStart has been placed in maintenance mode as its capabilities are incorporated into Solid 2.0.

By Daniel Curtis

htmx 4.0: a Fetch-Based Rewrite, Built-In Morphing Swaps, and Explicit Attribute Inheritance

Daniel Curtis — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:32:00 GMT

htmx 4 has been released, featuring a transition from XMLHttpRequest to the fetch() API, enhancing streaming capabilities. Key updates include built-in morphing swaps for DOM state preservation and an hx-partial tag for cleaner updates. Attribute inheritance is now explicit, with event names standardized. The library maintains focus on minimal JavaScript while remaining popular among frameworks.

By Daniel Curtis

TanStack Charts Introduced with a Framework Agnostic Grammar of Graphics for TypeScript

Daniel Curtis — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:53:00 GMT

TanStack Charts is a new, framework-agnostic visualization library for TypeScript. It allows developers to create visualizations by composing various elements instead of using fixed chart types. Currently in Alpha, it has about 160,000 weekly downloads. The library supports multiple frameworks and is designed for a variety of environments, though it is not yet stable for production use.

By Daniel Curtis

Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs

Bruno Couriol — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:45:00 GMT

Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of AI models, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali reassessed Shopify’s commitment to React Native, estimating that the benefit/cost ratio of maintaining native codebases across mobile platforms was now above that of using an abstraction layer.

By Bruno Couriol

Jotai 3.0 Ships as a Modernized, ESM-Only Package That Drops Legacy Builds and Deprecated APIs

Daniel Curtis — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:46:00 GMT

Jotai, an atomic state management library for React, has released version 3.0.0, now exclusively using ES modules. It maintains backward compatibility but removes some deprecated APIs. Migration is straightforward for most users. This version emphasizes a leaner core with improvements while deferring significant feature changes for future updates.

By Daniel Curtis

Meta Open-Sources Astryx, its Agent-Ready React Design System

Bruno Couriol — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:39:00 GMT

Meta recently announced the beta release of Astryx, an open-source React design system developed internally over eight years. Astryx builds on React 19 and StyleX to provide over 150 accessible UI components, customizable CSS design tokens, and dedicated CLI and MCP tooling — for both engineers and AI agents.

By Bruno Couriol