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21 Aug 2026 edition
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vuejs/core: v3.6.0-rc.5

For stable releases, please refer to CHANGELOG.md for details. For pre-releases, please refer to CHANGELOG.md of the minor branch.

Source: Vue.js Releases github-actions[bot]
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How We Handle Client-Side CSV Merging Without Server Processing

When merging CSVs in the browser, handling mismatched columns and quoted cells changes everything. Here's how filetools does it. Last week we shipped CSV merge/split/transpose tools for filetools, and the most…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Declan
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How to Choose the Right Enterprise AI RAG System

🔍 Free AI Visibility Teardown: Want to know if ChatGPT & Perplexity cite your domain vs competitors? Request a Free Instant AI Search Teardown on AppWebSeo. What is an enterprise RAG system? An enterprise…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Googleer
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I Wrote a Sprite Packer Because TexturePacker Costs $40

Last month I was prototyping a 2D roguelike in Phaser. I had about 180 sprites — 16x16 tiles, a few 32x64 characters, UI buttons, particle effects. I loaded them individually because "I'll optimize later." Later came…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Iven
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# Week 3 - Task 2: Understanding JavaScript Core Concepts

JavaScript Event Loop Explained: Call Stack, Web APIs, Queues, Promises and setTimeout If you've ever looked at JavaScript code like this: console.log("Start"); setTimeout(() => { console.log("Timeout"); }, 0);…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed koushikmaya
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Cypress Is Not A Faster Selenium, It Is A Different Bet

Every browser testing comparison eventually collapses into a speed argument, and that framing hides the thing that actually matters. Cypress is not Selenium with the rough edges sanded off. It made one architectural…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Paul Crinigan
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Hands-Free Browsing Without the Surveillance

We somehow accepted a strange bargain on the modern web. We wanted convenience. In exchange, we got tracking. A button remembers what we clicked. A page remembers what we looked at. A “helpful” service remembers where…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed HeroMe
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What a Website Can Learn From Your Browser: IP, WebRTC, and IPv6

Most people think browser privacy begins and ends with cookies. Cookies matter, but a website can also observe connection and browser details before you ever create an account. This post is a practical overview of the…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Mustafa Kaçaroğlu
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AI Citations in Content: Best Practices for Source-Led Publishing

🔍 Free AI Visibility Teardown: Want to know if ChatGPT & Perplexity cite your domain vs competitors? Request a Free Instant AI Search Teardown on AppWebSeo. What does it mean to integrate AI citations into content?…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Googleer
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Why Scroll-First Date Pickers Work Better on Mobile

Most date pickers still use the same interaction model they have used for years: Open the calendar. See one month. Click an arrow. See the next month. Repeat until you reach the date you want. That works reasonably well…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed RollDate
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A browser-based Minecraft seed map for exploring worlds

When I want to understand a Minecraft seed, I usually need more than a random coordinate list. I want to see how the biomes connect, compare the Overworld, Nether, and End, and share a useful view with someone else.…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed 汪小春
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The Webhook Updated the Wrong Row. The Logs Showed the Perfect ID.

I ran a small payment-sync service on a free server, and for two weeks it quietly marked the wrong orders as paid before I noticed. The symptom was infuriating because every log line looked flawless: the right event…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Taylor Wang
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I built truden | alt+shake your mouse to snip UI for AI assistants

I'm currently working on a personal project that needed a way to instantly capture UI context from a user and hand it off to an AI layer. Basically, letting the user show what they're seeing instead of typing it out. My…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Igwe Francis
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Reliable Water Storage Solutions for Modern Projects

Water storage is a basic need for almost every industry and large-scale project. Factories, farms, commercial buildings, institutions, construction sites, and infrastructure facilities all need a safe and dependable way…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Uplex Infra
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Show DEV: I built a free Canada PR timeline tracker

Hi everyone! As a developer interested in building practical web utilities, I recently noticed how stressful and opaque the Canadian permanent residency (PR) tracking process can be for applicants. To solve this, I…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Saksham Salvi
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JAVA PROGRAMMING

[Java Programming: [BEST JAVA SCRIPT COURSE IN FARIDABAD](https://onetickcdc.com/courses/best-java-training-course-in-faridabad) Java Programming is one of the most powerful and popular programming languages in the…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed ONETICK CDC
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How to Automate i18n Translations with GitHub Actions: 3 Approaches

TLDR: You can automate translations by triggering AI translations on every pull request with GitHub Actions. No more waiting on translations before shipping. This post walks through different approaches that work with…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Arvid Andersson
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Designing Functions That Compound

The Power of Small, Composable Functions I've spent years refactoring messy codebases. The most common problem I see isn't lack of comments or poor naming-it's functions that try to do too much. A function that does one…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Code Atlas
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A legacy refactoring that is small only in the ticket

Consider this task in a multi-module payment platform: Rename PaymentService.process() to authorizePayment() and move its implementation from legacy-payment-core to payment-application. The repository includes: a…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Viktoria
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Why I Built ImgSolve: Making Everyday Image Tasks Simpler

Images are everywhere, but working with them is often more complicated than it should be. People need smaller or correctly formatted images for: Online applications Email attachments Government forms Website uploads…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed ImgSolve
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Turn a Pull Request Into a 10-Minute Technical Interview Drill

The fastest way to make a technical answer sound generic is to rehearse it without a real change in front of you. Pick a pull request you can explain, spend 10 minutes turning its diff into a walkthrough, and you will…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Karuha
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React useTimeout Hook: Declarative setTimeout with Cleanup (2026)

Here is a "Copied!" button. Every codebase has one, and this version has three bugs: function CopyButton({ text }: { text: string }) { const [copied, setCopied] = useState(false); useEffect(() => { if (!copied) return;…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed ReactUse
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Make Basic HTML Analysis More Difficult

This plugin makes saving the page with “Save As” and analyzing it through Developer Tools more difficult. The page is displayed using a Blob URL, so “View Source” is also unavailable. This reduces the number of simple…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed uni928
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I Built 3 Free AI Tools That Help You Find the Right AI Stack

I kept seeing "what AI tool should I use?" asked everywhere — Twitter, Reddit, Discord, HN. So I built three free tools to answer that question. 1. AI Tool Finder Quiz Answer 5 questions about what you need, your…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed aitechgems
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A Practical Guide to Instagram Post Scraping for Data Teams

Introduction Instagram post data powers everything from influencer pricing models to competitive content calendars. Yet the platform doesn't offer a clean, affordable API for bulk post retrieval. In this guide, we'll…

Source: DEV JavaScript feed Yulia Taylor