JavaScript News: October 2025 ​

News ​

• AWS Went Down
• React Foundation
  • React will be moved from Meta to the new React Foundation which will be governed by a board of directors.
  • Founding members are Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, Vercel
• URLPattern is Baseline Newly Available
  • Baseline Newly Available meaning it works across the latest devices and browsers, but not necessarily older devices/browsers
  • Syntax to create URL pattern matchers
• Vite+
  • Command line dev tool which is a drop-in upgrade to vite with additional features. Limits configuration and plumbing?

Resources & Articles & More ​

• 15 Recent Node Features that Replace Popular NPM Packages
• Birth of Prettier
• Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web
• NordicJS Talks have been posted
• NPM Security Best Practices
• Vite Documentary

Upcoming 2025/2026 Conferences ​

• Anybody attend a conference in the last month?
• JSNation US | | New York, NY or Remote, November 18
• React Summit US | New York, NY or Remote, November 18
• React Advanced Canada | Toronto, CA, March 24, 2026
• International JavaScript Conference | San Diego, CA June 1-4, 2026

Releases ​

• Bun 1.3
  • Full Stack JS Runtime
• Next.js 16
  • Cache Components: caching in Next.js is more explicit and flexible and centers around the "use cache" directive to cache pages, components, functions!
  • Various DevEx fixes, MCP integration, proxy.ts replaces middleware.ts
• Node.js 25.0.0
• Playwright 1.56
• React 19.2
  • useEffectEvent
  • CacheSignal
• Vitest 4.0