🧪 February 2024: React Labs, Storybook 8 preview, JS bloat, and a $104k bill

Welcome to the first edition of Front End Platform, your monthly curated digest dedicated to the changing landscape of front end platform engineering.

Languages/Frameworks

• 100th TC39 meeting: What’s happening with our JavaScript overlords? Sadly, no update about the Temporal API

• React Labs: What the React team has been working on, including an update on their optimization compiler

  • Related: this tweet from Andrew Clark on where the React APIs are headed

Tooling

• ESLint 2023 Year Review: An approaching major version featuring the flag config and a transparent look into the financials
• Storybook 8 Beta preview: Performance improvements (hello SWC, goodbye Babel), a new visual testing workflow, and more
• TypeScript-ESLint v7: Preparing for the era of ESLint flat configs
• Vite 5.1: New runtime API, improved HMR for circular imports, CSS updates, and more
• JSR: a new package registry from Deno

News/Articles

• React trends in 2024: Astro, server components, headless UIs, and more

• The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks: Are JavaScript bundles too bloated?

• Netlify just sent me a 104k bill for a simple mistake: A nightmarish scenario of getting charged for being the victim of a DDoS attack 😬

• Behind the scenes at CSS-Tricks: What happened after the DigitalOcean acquisition and why the site has been dormant for the past year

• Apple kills PWAs: Is this the beginning of the end for the role of Progressive Web Apps as alternative to native apps?

  • [March 1 update]: Decision has been reversed!

That's all for now, folks! See you next month 👋

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