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Issue #420.August 29, 2025.2 Minute read.
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Today’s issue: West Coast Customs gets into HTML, AI yearns for the mines, and Lemony Snicket goes full Oracle.

Welcome to #420-good-kush-blaze-it.

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The Main Thing

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The only drug I need is JavaScript

Hot frameworks near me

No matter how fast and furious the AI hype train gets, the three sweetest words in the English language will always be: new JavaScript framework just dropped.

And the Spec Gods made it rain again earlier this week with Ripple, a new TypeScript UI framework that Dominic Gannaway created as his “love letter to the web.”

It’s still in super-early alpha phases, but the project looks fascinating – mainly because Dominic is an open source legend. He created Lexical and Inferno, and was also a core team member for React and Svelte during the React Hooks and Svelte 5 days.

His goal for Ripple is to combine all the best ideas he’s come across in that time into one ideal framework. Let’s take a look at how:

  • $-style reactivity – State variables prefixed with $ automatically trigger updates (like Svelte signals but inline). No extra hooks or setters, just $count++ and your UI re-renders.

  • JSX-ish templates with real JS control flow – Instead of returning standard JSX, Ripple lets you drop if/else, loops, and even inline variable declarations straight into your components.

  • TS-first .ripple files – Components live in their own .ripple modules with full TypeScript support, which Dominic says gives it some nice DX touches while also making it more “LLM-friendly” too.

Bottom Line: Personally, my “love letters to the web” are too steamy for polite newsletters like this one, but Dominic’s love letter really does seem to combine the best parts of Svelte, React, and more. Stay tuned.

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Cool Bits

  1. shadcn CLI 3.0 just shipped with namespaced registries, advanced auth, an MCP server for all registries, and a creator reveal – just kidding. shad still walks as a shadow among us.

  2. The Apollo 11 Source Code is on GitHub, but all the navigation stuff keeps routing to a random warehouse in rural Nevada for some reason.

  3. Check out Embrace’s User Journeys, a new approach to creating and tracking custom user flows without having to restructure your code. [sponsored]

  4. ImageJS 1.0 brings TypeScript support and a more intuitive API to the advanced image processing library.

  5. nuqs just released v2.5 of its type-safe search params state manager for React frameworks. It comes with key isolation, standard schema, debounce, TanStack Router support, and more.

  6. The React team just added a new docs page on Custom HTML elements – but I already get all my HTML elements customized for me at West Coast Customs with Xzibit, so I don’t need to read it.

  7. Clerk just launched Mosaic – a Figma design system that mirrors every Clerk UI component, so you can design and prototype auth flows that look and feel like your product, before writing any code. [sponsored]

  8. Marvin Hagemeister wrote about Semver in this latest entry to his series on Speeding up the JavaScript Ecosystem. Initially, I heard he was planning to call these blog posts A Series of Unfortunate Events – but Lemony Snicket threatened to go full Oracle on him if he didn’t change the name.

  9. Rahul M. Juliato wrote this step-by-step guide to unlocking Web Workers with React.

  10. Someone created a Minecraft MCP Server that allows AI assistants to control a Minecraft character in real time, so it can build structures, explore the world, etc. I can’t wait until we can train AI to play all my video games for me so I have more time to work in the real mines.