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Next.js 16.3 turns Turbopack's attention to compiler performance: memory eviction cuts dev server RAM by up to 90%, the filesystem cache now speeds up next build, and an experimental Rust port of the React Compiler drops the Babel bottleneck.
Chrome 150 makes scrollTo(), scrollBy(), scroll(), and scrollIntoView() return a Promise that resolves when a smooth scroll finishes — and tells you whether it was interrupted. Here's how to replace the scrollend guesswork with await.
Chrome's Proofreader API is in origin trial from Chrome 141 to 145. It runs Gemini Nano on-device to correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation without a single network request — here is how it works and where it earns its place.
As of May 2026, SharedWorker is Baseline Newly available across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. It lets every tab on an origin share a single background thread — and a single WebSocket — instead of each tab opening its own. Here is how to use it and where it pays off.
As of May 2026, CSS container style queries are Baseline Newly available across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. They let a component restyle itself based on a custom property set anywhere up its DOM tree — no extra classes, no JavaScript, no prop drilling. Here is how they work and where to use them.
Chrome 148 is testing two new API sets that let HTML arrive out of order and stream into a live page without heavy DOM manipulation. Here is what Declarative Partial Updates does and where it earns its place.
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