Void Zero, the company behind the popular Vite bundler, has introduced Vite Plus, a new unified toolchain for JavaScript development. This source-available offering seeks to consolidate developer workflows and improve performance, while adopting a commercial licensing model to ensure sustainable funding for its underlying open-source projects.
Independent developer benchmarks exposed significant performance gaps in Cloudflare Workers, triggering an intensive hack week by Cloudflare's engineering team that resulted in up to 3x speed improvements and critical upstream contributions to the JavaScript ecosystem.
React's annual conference, React Conf 2025, has introduced significant updates poised to redefine development practices. Discover how new APIs, a stable compiler, and organizational changes aim to address long-standing challenges within the ecosystem.
After a decade under Meta's wing, React and React Native are now part of the independent React Foundation, backed by industry giants and housed within the Linux Foundation. This pivotal shift coincides with the launch of the stable React Compiler 1.0 and promises a new era of open collaboration and enhanced performance for the ecosystem.
BetterAuth’s acquisition of Auth.js, formerly NextAuth, raises concerns about the future of open-source authentication and the growing dominance of VC-backed frameworks.