The JavaScript midlife crisis
Rewriting tools in Rust, Go, and Zig makes them faster, but fewer developers can maintain them.
JavaScript news
Modern web types
A drop-in replacement for TypeScript’s DOM types with a single-engine threshold.
The browser’s main thread is expensive
Splitting, batching, and offloading work to keep every frame under 10 milliseconds.
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!
Canvas, contenteditable, and textarea compared for building an editor in the browser.
Highlighting a range of text inside a form field
The Custom Highlight API finally reaches form controls thanks to OpaqueRange in Chromium 152.
How Baseline can help you ship less JavaScript
Five dependency clusters where platform features now replace npm packages.
Source maps or not?
When npm packages actually need them, and how much install size they cost.
Do we still need build tools?
A look at which CSS and JS tooling still earns its place in 2026.
Announcing TypeScript 7.0
A native Go port delivering 8-12x faster builds and lower memory use.
Shaders, a design platform for WebGPU effects
Build GPU visuals across frameworks without writing any shader code.
What’s new in ECMAScript 2026
A tour of the new array, error, math, and iterator methods landing in the spec.
Releasing Babel 8 today: ESM-only, drop ES5 default, and a smooth migration path
ESM-only, Node.js 22+, modern browser target, and assumptions over loose and spec.