News: Deno 2.0, Web Components on the Server, and WordPress Drama

This episode kicks off with the new Deno 2 release candidate. V2 boasts improved dependency management, updates to the APIs and CLI, and improved CommonJS support because even though ESM is the future, so much good stuff in the JS ecosystem still runs on CJS. 

Web Components take a big step forward in terms of wider spread adoption with the adoption of the Declarative Shadow DOM by all major browsers back in August. The Shadow DOM (a Web Components standard) provides a way to scope CSS styles to a specific DOM subtree and isolate the subtree so the element can be reused without fear of script conflicts or unexpected CSS cascades. But it only worked on the client side. The Declarative Shadow DOM removes this limitation and now things like SSR, streaming data, and server rendering styles are possible.

Because the web development world can never be without some good drama going down, we now present for your viewing pleasure: the drama between WordPress and WP Engine.

News:

• Paige - Declarative Shadow DOM for Web Components
• Jack - Deno 2 release candidate
• TJ - Wordpress vs WP Engine drama

Bonus News:

• We’re on Bluesky now @front-end-fire.com! Follow us!
• Cloudflare AI Audit
• OpenAI departures
• State of HTML survey

Fire Starters:

• autocomplete attribute

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Stuff You Should Know podcast
• Jack - Actual typewriters at The Type Space store
• TJ - Detroit Tigers

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