Oxfmt beta: 30x faster than Prettier, 100% compatible

Plus a library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, Oracle drags its heels, and an x86 emulator in pure CSS.

#​774 — February 24, 2026 Read on the Web Together with  JavaScript Weekly Oxfmt Beta: A Fast, Rust-Powered JavaScript Code Formatter — A 100% Prettier-compatible JavaScript code formatter (and sister project of Oxlint) that boasts being 30x faster than Prettier and 3x faster than Biome. Since the alpha, it now supports embedded language formatting (JSX, YAML, HTML, etc), Tailwind CSS class sorting, import sorting, and more. Boshen, Dunqing, and Sugiura (VoidZero) FlexGrid by Wijmo: The Industry-Leading JavaScript Datagrid — A fast and flexible DataGrid for building modern web apps. Key features and virtualized rendering are included in the core grid module. Pick & choose special features to keep your app small. Built for JavaScript, extended to Angular, React, and Vue. Wijmo From MESCIUS sponsor IN BRIEF: Martin Kleppe, known for his creative experiments like tixy.land, has created a scrolling bitmap quine in just 666 characters of HTML and JavaScript. Here's the annotated source so you can see how it works. In the Oracle vs Deno JavaScript trademark case, Oracle has asked for a two month extension to proceedings, which Deno has agreed to. Patrick Brosset notes that, as of last month's release of Firefox 147, you can now use JS modules in service workers on all major browsers. A cute technical trick for using the browser's canvas element to compress textual data from JavaScript. RELEASES: Vuetify 4.0 – Vue framework for building responsive UIs. (Upgrade docs.) npm v11.10.0 – Maintainers can now add/update trusted publishing configs across multiple packages simultaneously. There's also a new --min-release-age option. Node.js v25.7.0 (Current) and v24.14.0 (LTS) ESLint 10.0.2, Hono 4.12, Deno 2.6.10, Electron 40.6, Three.js r183 📖  Articles and Videos The Fastest Frontend Tooling for Humans and AI — Christoph (of Jest fame) covers his preferred tools for getting your JavaScript tool stack running as fast as possible. It's also intended for LLMs to process via this Markdown version. Christoph Nakazawa Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML for Stronger XSS Protection — As of v148, Firefox supports the Sanitizer API. Rather than assigning HTML to DOM nodes with innerHTML, you can use setHTML for safety by default. It's a cutting-edge feature, with Chrome 146 (beta) also adding support, but nothing in Safari yet, so DOMPurify will remain useful for a while. Mozilla Hacks Clerk's Free Tier Now Covers 50,000 MRUs — Up from 10K. MFA included in Pro. Unlimited apps on all plans. No per-app upgrades anymore. Clerk sponsor Halving Node.js Memory Usage with Pointer Compression — Cloudflare, Igalia, and the Node project have collaborated on node-caged, a Node.js 25 Docker image with V8 pointer compression enabled, yielding up to 50% memory savings. Matteo digs into all the details. Matteo Collina 📺 My Angular Stack in 2026 – An opinionated walk through tools the author would pick if starting a new Angular project now. Rainer Hahnekamp 📄 How to Publish to npm from GitHub Actions – Using the new npm OIDC trusted publishing workflow. Gleb Bahmutov 📄 Building an Endless Procedural Snake with Three.js and WebGL Sujen Phea 🛠 Code & Tools OpenSeadragon 6.0: A Web Viewer for High Resolution Images — A big step forward for a project that's almost 15 years old, and one of few stable, trusty options for rendering ultra-high resolution images for users to zoom into and pan around. Version 6 introduces a new async and cache-managed pipeline, making it far more efficient at scale. OpenSeadragon Contributors 💡 OpenSeadragon was recently used as the basis for the Isometric NYC (well worth reading about in its own right!) project. SurveyJS: JavaScript Libraries for Dynamic Web Forms — Build JSON-driven forms in your app (React/Angular/Vue) without SaaS limitations. Keep full ownership of your data. SurveyJS sponsor bignumber.js 10.0: Library for Arbitrary-Precision Arithmetic — Works around limitations of JavaScript's Number and BigInt types, such as if you need to work with very large non-integers. Usefully, the library is included on the page so you can play with it in the JS console. Michael Mclaughlin ⏳ Slowmo: Slow Down, Pause, or Speed Up Time — A tool you can use either as a library or browser extension that slows down time in the browser for debugging and testing purposes. It slows down numerous things including CSS animations, transitions, and requestAnimationFrame. Francois Laberge React Doctor: Give Your React Code a Quick Check-Up — Fresh from the creator of React Scan and React Grab, a new tool that scans your codebase and gives you a 0-100 score. (GitHub repo.) Aiden Bai 💡 Angular Doctor is a similar project for Angular apps inspired by React Doctor. Vue Scrollama 3.0: Vue Component for Scroll-Driven Interactions — Scrollama is a library for doing so called 'scrollytelling' where scroll position affects the presence of certain elements in the viewport. This project makes it easier to use with Vue. Vignesh Shenoy Beautiful Mermaid 1.0 – Render Mermaid diagram markup to SVG or ASCII/Unicode outputs (above) from JavaScript. 📊 Plotly.js 3.4 – Standalone data visualization library covering charts, graphs, maps, and more. Examples. pnpm v10.30.0 – pnpm why now shows a reverse dependency tree. 📄 DOCX 9.6.0 – Generate/modify .docx files from JavaScript. 📰 Classifieds 💛 JSNation | the key web dev conference | June 11 & 15. Don't miss out - 50+ talks, 1.5K devs to connect, Amsterdam vibes, & global access. Ex‑Palantir engineers built Meticulous, an E2E UI testing tool that automatically covers every edge case, boosting product quality and development speed. 📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem Play with a complete Windows 3.11 environment in your browser. A lot of fun! There's a recreation of 90s search engine Altavista (above), a version of mIRC that connects to an actual IRC server, and a variety of classic games. Andrew Nesbitt shares some useful pointers on Git's 'magic' files including .gitignore, .gitmessage, and other files that affect Git's behavior. It used to be cool to emulate CPUs and consoles in JavaScript. But now someone's made an x86 CPU emulator in CSS! Hologram is an interesting web framework for the Elixir language that compiles Elixir front-end code to JavaScript with a striking level of success. Tailwind CSS v4.2 introduces new mauve, olive, mist and taupe color palettes to the default theme. 🎉 Angular has just passed 100K GitHub stars!

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