A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers

Issue #39:

Create React App is officially dead (~~pour one out~~ use Vite instead)
28 different voices speaking directly from your browser thanks to WebGPU magic
Tailwind 4 just dropped and there are some solid quality-of-live improvements

TypeScript the Bad Parts

@Wes

TypeScript has released a beta property erasableSyntaxOnly that will disallow any parts of TypeScript that aren’t types — that is anything that compiles into JavaScript code.

This includes enums, runtime namespaces and parameter properties.

Turning this on should make writing code for runtimes that simply strip types much easier - like Node.js!

SQL Noir - Learn SQL by solving crimes

CJ'S LINK

Solve crimes by querying tables and finding clues. Even the first case roped me in.

Speech Synthesis in the browser

FROM WEs!

Xenova has done it again. Advancements in WebGPU, he has the Kokoro ML model running entirely in the browser with Transformers.js. 28 Voices!

Sunsetting Create React App

cj AGAIN!

Create React App has officially been deprecated. TLDR: just use Vite now

React Libraries for 2025

cj AGAIN!

An updated focused guide for what libraries to choose when building a react app.

All Hail The Algorithm

Some good stuff™ we posted this week

The Feed

New episodes 2×/week + other new video content!

You Are Sleeping On Nuxt, Nitro and Vue w/ Daniel Roe

Should You Use Signals with React?

MIDI & Music in the Browser

Guess The Year: Web Dev Time Machine Challenge

SHAMELESS PLUG

See what’s broken and where with Sentry.

Join one of Sentry's engineers every other Thursday for a 25 minute tour — no slides, no fluff, just code-level visibility from pre-release to production.

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