Say hello to ECMAScript 2025
#742 — June 27, 2025 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New? — It’s that time of year again. The Ecma General Assembly has approved the ES2025 language specification, which you can read in full here if you have a gallon of coffee to hand — or you can enjoy Dr. Axel’s more succinct explainer instead. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer What's Coming to JavaScript — The ES2025 spec is great, but what else is coming down the pike? The Deno team has put together a look, complete with code samples, at nine proposals progressing through TC39’s process right now. Casonato and Jiang (Deno) Fullstack without Frameworks — Maximiliano Firtman combines vanilla JavaScript and Go to create high-performance apps from scratch. Follow along in this video course and learn more about web components, dynamic client-side routing, authentication, logging and everything in between. Frontend Masters sponsor Vite 7.0 Released — At five years old, Vite has radically changed the frontend building experience and is an essential tool for many. v7 is an evolutionary step more than a revolutionary one and should prove an easy upgrade from v6. VoidZero Inc. IN BRIEF: The speaker lineup for JSConf 2025 has been announced. It takes place in Maryland this October. If you love the V8 team's deep dives, they have a new one looking at two new optimizations introduced into V8 for speeding up WebAssembly. Shopify's William Candillon reflects on the future of advanced graphics in React Native using React Native Skia, and how WebGPU, Three.js, and a new backend called Skia Graphite are changing the game. The popular and long standing Construct HTML5 + JavaScript game development environment now has full built-in support for TypeScript too. The Angular team has created a set of LLM prompts and AI IDE rules files to help Angular developers get better code out of LLMs. Vercel hosted its annual Vercel Ship event this week and they made so many announcements, you'll need this recap post to get through them all.

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