JavaScript Weekly issue 777 covers Vite 8.0's major release featuring Rolldown replacing Rollup/esbuild, Babel-free React plugin, Wasm SSR support, and big performance gains. VoidZero open-sourced its Vite+ unified toolchain (now in alpha). Other highlights include Electron 41.0, Vitest 4.1, Nuxt 4.4, Babel 8.0 RC3, and Vue 3.6.0 Beta 8. Featured articles cover source maps becoming an ECMA standard, a team rewriting 130K lines from React to Svelte in two weeks using LLMs, and an empirical study of frontend memory leaks across 500 React, Vue, and Angular apps.
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