Nuxt 4.5 Lands with Vite 8, Vue 3.6 Hits RC, and Angular Moves to Annual Releases
🌰 Chestnut Frontend Weekly Issue 139 (2026.07.20 - 2026.07.26): Browse the latest frontend news of the week, learn from excellent articles at home and abroad, and let's maintain our curiosity about the frontend.
📰 Technical News
Nuxt 4.5: Nuxt 4.5 has been officially released. Highlights include built-in Vite 8 and Rspack 2, new experimental server-side rendering streaming, a new
useLayoutcomposable, and extensive groundwork for Nuxt 5. Note for Nuxt 3 users: this version will reach end-of-life on July 31.Vue 3.6 RC: Vue 3.6 has entered the release candidate stage. Vapor Mode, first unveiled over two years ago, is now fully functional and ready.
Angular Release Cadence: Angular is switching to an annual release cycle. One year after version 22, version 23 is planned for June 2027.
ESLint codemods: ESLint now provides official codemod tools to automate ESLint version migrations, supporting upgrades from v8 to v9 and v9 to v10.
📒 Technical Articles
Handling Concurrency on the Web with Web Locks API: Handling concurrent web tasks with the Web Locks API — a well-supported Web API that allows same-origin tabs or Web Workers to acquire and release locks.
How to Design an Excellent Skill: A good Skill essentially solves one problem: how to make an AI Agent do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way.
How to Learn Java from a Frontend Perspective (Not Starting from Zero)?: This article shares some experiences and feelings of learning Java and Spring Boot as a frontend developer.
🔧 Development Tools
- Jelly UI: A dependency-free Web Components library that adds soft physics-based animations to native HTML controls. It includes 40 built-in components, and you can experience the effects through an online demo.
- eslint-package-json: An ESLint plugin that detects various issues in package.json, such as invalid package names, incorrect version ranges, abnormal export configurations, and redundant file entries, and can automatically fix many of them.
- React Colorful 5.8: A minimalist color picker component maintained for six years, now with Shadow DOM support. An online demo is available on the official website.
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