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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.
Vue 3.6 is deep in beta and its headline feature, Vapor Mode, compiles components straight to DOM operations with no virtual DOM. Here is what is real today and how to adopt it incrementally.
TypeScript 7.0 — the Go-based native port of the compiler — hit beta in April and is about 10x faster than 6.0. Here is how to run tsgo on your codebase today, what the new parallelism flags do, and the TS6 deprecations that will bite during migration.
With Firefox 147 shipping it in January 2026, CSS anchor positioning is now interoperable across every major engine. You can tether a tooltip, menu, or popover to its trigger — and keep it on screen — without Floating UI, Popper, or a single line of position-tracking JavaScript.
On June 4, Cloudflare acquired VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc. Everything stays MIT-licensed and Evan You keeps the wheel — but the ownership of the JavaScript ecosystem's default toolchain just changed. Here is what to watch and what (not) to do about it.
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