Rust Reshapes the JavaScript World: Vinext, Warper, fnm, and a JS Engineer's Six Months with Rust

Vinext: Cloudflare Rebuilds the Next.js API Surface on Vite, Almost Entirely with AI

TLDR: Cloudflare released vinext, an experimental Vite plugin that reimplements roughly 94% of the Next.js API surface, enabling Next.js apps to run on Cloudflare Workers without the Next.js compiler toolchain. The kicker: the vast majority of the code was written by Claude Code in about a week.

Link: cloudflare/vinext: Vite plugin that reimplements the Next.js API surface

Six Months of Rust: A JavaScript Engineer's Honest Field Report

TLDR: A long-time JavaScript and TypeScript engineer shares their experience learning Rust over six months while maintaining a production game server backend. The verdict: Cargo is a dream, the compiler is strict but brilliant, error handling is elegant, but deadlocks will humble you.

Link: Six months of Rust

Warper 7.2: Rust-Powered WebAssembly Meets React Virtualization

TLDR: Warper 7.2 is an open-source React virtualization library that offloads scroll calculations to a Rust-compiled WebAssembly module, achieving zero-allocation hot paths and constant-time operations for frame timing.

Link: Warper: Rust Powered React Virtualisation Library

Claude Code Skills: Reusable AI Workflows for Frontend Development

TLDR: Claude Code now supports custom "skills" that let developers define reusable, configurable AI workflows for frontend tasks like applying Three.js shader effects, turning one-off prompts into repeatable team tools.

Link: Claude Code Skills are the Future of Frontend

fnm: The Rust-Powered Node.js Version Manager That Replaces nvm

TLDR: fnm (Fast Node Manager) is a cross-platform Node.js version manager built in Rust that is faster and simpler than nvm, with support for automatic version switching, all major shells, and existing .node-version and .nvmrc files.

Link: Schniz/fnm: Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust