How Remix is shaking things up

#​738 — May 30, 2025

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JavaScript Weekly

Wake Up, Remix! Everything’s Changing.. — Big news from the Remix camp this week. About a year ago, Remix and React Router merged together reflecting their shared goals and code, but now it’s all change again. React Router is now basically what Remix originally intended to be, and so ‘Remix’ is rebooting as a model-first, low-dependency, Web API-centric full-stack framework built on Preact. It’ll no longer be a ‘React framework’ per se.

Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence

🕒 The Upcoming Temporal API and What Problems It Will Solve — The Temporal API has been cooking for many years now as a new way to work with dates and times in JavaScript. It’s just been enabled in Firefox 139 by default and sure to come to more runtimes ASAP. Here’s why it matters and what it offers.

Suren Enfiajyan

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Announcing Angular v20 — A big release for the Google backed framework where a lot of the more recent experimental features (like signals and incremental hydration) have received a lot of polish and been promoted as stable. There are new experimental APIs too, including resource streaming and httpResource for making HTTP requests with a signal-based reactive API.

Minko Gechev

💡 While the official release post (above) is packed with content, you might appreciate this brief magic-themed roundup of what’s new in Angular 20.

IN BRIEF:

• Matteo Collina has unveiled php-node, a way to run PHP apps within the same process as Node.js. Run WordPress with a Next.js frontend? Sure.

• TC39’s 108th meeting is currently taking place with many proposals being advanced, such as Seeded Pseudo-Random Numbers moving to stage 2 and Error.isError moving to stage 4.

• The OpenJS Foundation is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for over 40 popular JavaScript projects it hosts, including ESLint, Express, and Electron.

• Node’s technical steering committee has decided against instituting an official bounty program.

RELEASES:

• Bun v1.2.15 – Gains a bun audit tool for performing security audits of project dependencies.

• Ink 6.0 – Use React to build CLI apps. Now supporting React 19.

• Docusaurus v3.8 – Popular docs-oriented static site generator.

• Ember 6.4, JSPM 4.0

📖  Articles

Why Are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 Different Days in JavaScript? — An interesting ‘Wat’-like moment in just the first few lines of this post, which Brandon decided to dig into and explain.

Brandon Dong

▶  Modern Performance Debugging in Chrome DevTools — Paul shares a look at the reimagined Chrome DevTools Performance panel, showing off new features, how they work, and how to use them to make performance gains.

Paul Irish

Build an LMS SaaS App from Scratch — Learn to build a production-ready AI SaaS using Next.js with auth, billing, and an AI voice agent.

Clerk sponsor

React, Visualized: A Visual Exploration of React Concepts — The creators of a React course have updated their popular visual explainer of numerous core React concepts to cover React 19 and features like actions, transitions, and Server Components too.

Tyler McGinnis et al.

▶  The 3 Ways JavaScript Frameworks Render the DOM — The creator of the SolidJS framework looks at the different approaches frameworks take to render what they produce. A good look under the hood that isn’t too complex. (16 minutes.)

Ryan Carniato

Build a Blog with Angular in Under 30 Minutes Using Analog — Analog is a meta-framework for Angular (think along the lines of Next.js or Nuxt).

Peter Mbanugo

Your React Meta-Framework Feels Broken, Here’s Why — “Sometimes you’ve got to burn it all down, start from ash, and rebuild from first principles. This is what we did with RedwoodSDK.”

Redwood Team

📄 No Server, No Database: Smarter Related Posts in Astro with Transformers.js Alexander Opalic

📄 A Thought on JavaScript ‘Proof of Work’ Anti-Scraper Systems Chris Siebenmann

📄 Multithreading in JavaScript with Web Workers Badmus Kola

🛠 Code & Tools

Svelte Flow 1.0: Create Node-Based UIs and Diagrams in Svelte — From the creators of the similar React Flow comes a customizable Svelte component for building node-based editors and interactive diagrams. Want examples?

webkid GmbH

Cap: A Lightweight, Modern Open Source CAPTCHA Alternative — This solution boasts a method called “proof-of-work” which attempts to make automated CAPTCHA solving more expensive. It uses a Web Component and you can try out a few demos here. GitHub repo.

Cap

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Google Gen AI SDK for TypeScript and JavaScript v1 — Why let Python developers have all the fun? Now you can harness the full power of Google’s Gemini API (and Vertex platform) from Node.js too.

Google

ReactJust: Server Components Without a Framework — If, for some reason, you don’t want to adopt a full-scale framework like Next.js or React Router to use or experiment with RSCs, this ‘vanilla RSC’ approach could be of interest.

almadoro

• NeutralinoJS 6.1 – Lightweight cross-platform desktop app framework.

• Linkify 4.3 – Turn links, hashtags, and mentions in text to HTML links.

• image-type 6.0 – Detect the image type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.

• Faker 9.8 – Generate fabricated data to your heart’s content.

• file-type 21.0 – Detect the file type of a file, stream, or data.

• Mineflayer 4.29 – Create Minecraft bots in JavaScript.

👀  Elsewhere..

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

• The annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey is back for a fifteenth year.

• A Minecraft-style building experience in pure CSS – no JavaScript at all!

• Simon Willison writes about how GitHub Issues works really well as a personal notebook for taking notes, linking them together, and generally organizing whatever sort of information you want. It doesn’t have to just be for code projects.

• I just discovered that Matthias Bynens, who you might know for his work on everything V8, ECMAScript specs, and more, keeps a repo of the ‘smallest possible syntactically valid files’ in many different formats.

• Did you know you can style alt text like any other text on Web pages?