At the core of oRPC's design philosophy is what the team calls "powerful simplicity." Developers can define API endpoints with a syntax that feels similar to writing standard functions, while automatically gaining production features like OpenAPI specification generation, server action compatibility, and contract-first workflow support. The library supports multiple schema validators out of the box, including Zod, Valibot, and ArkType, without requiring additional configuration.
Ripple is a new open-source front-end framework taking ideas from React, SolidJS, and Svelte into a TypeScript-first, component-oriented, JSX-like compiled language with fine-grained reactivity and scoped CSS. Created by Svelte maintainer Dominic Gannaway, Ripple offers a reactivity system with automatic dependency tracking, and direct DOM updates without a virtual DOM. Ripple aims to support better debugging through AI agents. The following code sample exemplifies many of the core Ripple features:
Coming from the framework world with its wide streets, I've learned that all the magic and convenience comes with a hidden price tag. Every new version brought extra maintenance, dependency chains, and features I never asked for but had to carry. My move to the web has been a bumpy road - acronyms, frameworks, libraries everywhere. To make sense of it, I decided to document my journey.
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AnalogJS, a full-stack Angular meta-framework powered by Vite and Nitro, has officially released version 2.0, delivering powerful new capabilities around content management, build efficiency, and seamless developer tooling. The update marks a big step in Analog's evolution, strengthening its appeal for both content-heavy sites and large Angular applications. One of the release's new features are content resources, enabling developers to treat content (such as Markdown files) as first-class resources.
The Disk and LocalDisk services have a new method mkdirIfNotExists to creates directories. This is useful when using the local file system to ensure that a directory exists before saving files. Otherwise, an error can be thrown when it does not. On cloud storage services such as S3, directories are created automatically when saving files so this method does nothing.
Well, I've been playing with a new tool that's been gaining a ton of steam, and honestly? I don't think I'm going back. It's called UV, and it comes from Astral, the same team behind the super-popular linter, ruff. The goal here is ambitious. UV wants to be the single tool that replaces pip, venv, pip-tools, and even pipx. It's an installer, an environment manager, and a tool runner all rolled into one. And because it's written in Rust, it's ridiculously fast.
The v1 release emphasizes three major areas: type-safe routing & APIs, streaming-enabled SSR, and deployment flexibility. At its core, TanStack Start inherits the Router's fully inferred typing system, extending it into server-routes and loader functions so that navigation and data-loading share the same type definitions. The streaming SSR model lets applications send HTML to the client as soon as it's ready, then hydrate and continue interactive loading, blurring the line between client and server rendering.
The release of Apache Grails 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes and notable changes such as: the ability to disable Micronaut auto configuration through the Grails plugin; improved reproducibility with implementations of Grails Object Relational Mapper (GORM) services; and a temporary removal of the GORM for Neo4J. Grails 7.0 requires a minimal version of JDK 17 (with testing validated up to JDK 21) and compliance with Spring Boot 3.5 and Jakarta EE 10.
Over the past decade, software development has undergone a massive transformation due to continuous innovations in tools, processors and novel architectures. In the past, most applications were monoliths and then shifted to microservices, and now we find ourselves embracing composability - a paradigm that prioritizes modular, reusable, and flexible software design. Instead of writing separate, tightly coupled applications, developers now compose software using reusable business capabilities that can be plugged into multiple projects.
Nitro.js is a JavaScript-based HTTP server. It builds on state-of-the-art components, focusing on performance, convention, and deployment. As a JavaScript developer, you want to know about Nitro because it's built from the ground up for modern, full-stack web development. It brings together a wealth of good ideas and is becoming a go-to server option. Nitro is deployment-aware, designed to make it easy to deploy your code to a variety of production platforms, from Node to serverless and edge computing hosts like Vercel or CloudFlare.
