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Sunsetting Create React App – React The library for web and native user interfaces

Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework.

We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework.

react.dev/blog/2025/02...

Astro 5.3 | Astro Astro 5.3 is here with faster page rendering, easier setup for experimental sessions, and more!

Thought Astro 5.3 could only be 1.92% better than 5.2?

How about 400%

Introducing faster rendering and more 🚀

astro.build/blog/astro-5...

React v19 – React The library for web and native user interfaces

React v19 is now stable!

react.dev/blog/2024/12...

Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1 - Tailwind CSS After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.

ICYMI — Tailwind CSS v4.0 is now in beta ✨

tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwin...

⚡ Up to 5x faster builds, 100x faster rebuilds
🧰 Built-in imports, prefixing, and more
🪄 Simplified, CSS-first configuration
🦾 Modern CSS features like @​starting-style and container queries
🎨 New wide-gamut color palette

Announcing Vite 6 Vite 6 Release Announcement

Vite 6.0 is out ⚡️
vite.dev/blog/announc...

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

If you want to understand how we scaled to handle this influx like we did, this blog post from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com goes over a lot of our design and implementation decisions

Photo of my doggo, Benji

Hello Bluesky. I build cool things on the web. And this is my doggo, Benji.