Frontend & JS Digest — Week 35

Fresh survey results on what's hot (and not) in modern CSS.

Make a web game in 13 KB (gzipped). This year topic is "Black Cat".

Still alive, still shipping—RC for the big 4.0.

Pragmatic take on using localStorage for app state and multi-tab sync—works, but mind the trade-offs.

A thoughtful dive into Lean and proofs—good brain stretch outside everyday JS.

Clear explanation of when and why to use React's cache() with Server Components.

Nice approach for text highlighting; not in Baseline yet, so now progressive-enhancement only.

A small kick in the pants to publish—web is fun when we actually ship.

A new TypeScript-first linter written in Go—fast tooling keeps marching on.

Ambitious lightweight JS runtime (https://porffor.dev/) gets lambda support—fun experimental space.

Tiny Smalltalk compiler targeting JavaScript—retro meets modern.

Handy utility to see if two regexes are functionally the same.

FP-flavored data mapping pipeline—compose transforms like building blocks.

Image comparison beyond raw pixels—useful for visual regression testing.

MCP for Minecraft because why not—protocol toys for the curious.

Solid Python runtime in WebAssembly—Python-in-the-browser keeps getting easier.

Git-backed CMS for static sites—simple, flexible, self-hostable.

Cute quiz that exposes how weird email RFCs can be.