Curated Reading List: Frontend Future, PostCSS, V8 Engine, Vite, Deno, ESBuild‑based Tool, and Temporal API

Editor’s Picks

Web Infra Talk: The Future of Front‑end & Vercel

Industry leaders have joined Vercel, and the interview with Vercel’s DevRel lead Lee Robinson explores why Vercel is attractive and its perspective on the front‑end’s future.

[Replay] Zhang Xinxu’s 12‑Year Technical Writing Experience

In the fourth session of the Juejin Creator Bootcamp, Zhang Xinxu shares his twelve‑year writing journey, covering topic selection, article structure, language expression, and quality control. The replay link is provided.

Deep Reading

Understanding PostCSS from Scratch

Compared with preprocessors like Less and Sass, PostCSS acts like a CSS‑Babel, processing in three steps: parsing code into an AST, running plugins, and generating the final output from the AST.

Brief on V8 Script Engine (Part 3: Core Modules – Parser, Interpreter, Optimizing Compiler)

This third article in the V8 engine series covers compilation fundamentals such as lexical analysis, syntax analysis, bytecode, and escape analysis.

In‑Depth Understanding of Vite’s Core Principles

The article explains how Vite implements common engineering needs, including HMR, dependency pre‑bundling, and plugin extensibility.

Foreign Recommendations

An Introduction to Deno: Is It Better than Node.js?

The piece discusses Deno’s origins, its pros and cons compared with Node.js, and provides a practical overview of Deno’s quirks and features to help decide its suitability for projects.

Move over JavaScript: Back‑end Languages Are Coming to the Front‑end

Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix, states his goal is not to eliminate single‑page applications but to make them unnecessary for many use cases, highlighting emerging back‑end languages for front‑end development.

New Stuff

Another Esbuild‑Based Magic Tool!

Node cannot run TS files directly, so ts‑node is commonly used. Antfu now offers esno , an ESBuild‑based TS/ESNext runtime that is theoretically much faster than ts‑node.

JS’s Next‑Generation Date‑Time API: Temporal (Why It Beats Date)

The legacy java.Util.Date module, inherited from Java, is poorly designed and deprecated, yet still used in JavaScript. The new Temporal API provides a modern, robust alternative.