Frontend Digest – October 28, 2025

AWS explains DynamoDB outage due to race condition causing API errors and connectivity issues on Oct 19-20, 2025

Jim Nielsen urges using declarative browser APIs instead of micromanaging the DOM; more control equals less performance

Jovi De Croock compares state-based rendering with signal-based approaches (Preact Signals/Solid.js); signals re-render only consumers and improve performance

Ryan Skinner reports that Rari's SSR implementation with a proper app router and correct RSC semantics achieved ~3.8x faster response times and ~10.5x higher throughput than Next.js

Nadia Makarevich compares CSR, SSR, and React Server Components, measuring metrics like LCP and exploring streaming/Suspense to assess whether RSC improves performance

Jake Archibald contrasts JSON module imports with fetch(); he warns that importing JSON modules can break the whole module graph and leak memory, while fetch is generally safer

Harminder Virk demonstrates building a bookmarks CLI using Ace, highlighting features like prompts, logging, tables, and Bun/Node.js support

Tweet thread from @tmikov where he shares the PoC of the app written on JS with the Dear ImGui and Sokol + Hermes AoT compiler

Dan Abramov outlines a methodical debugging process: find a reliable reproduction, narrow it to a simpler test case, and iteratively remove irrelevant factors until the root cause is revealed

Curated gallery of navigation designs: static, dropdown, mega menu, sidebar, and more

SVG design tool to design, animate, and export SVGs from one file; exports code for React, Svelte, etc.

Modern ES6+ JavaScript library for animated gauges using native SVG; zero dependencies and customizable