Highlights (quoting the blog post):

• Inline RegExp modifiers (Stage 3 proposal)
• TC39, the committee that standardizes JavaScript, recently approved some changes to the Decorators proposal based on feedback from the TypeScript team. These are now supported by Babel.
• TypeScript 5.0:
  • const modifiers for type parameters
  • export type * declarations
• Experimental support for .cts configuration files
• Source maps improvements

Highlights (quoting the blog post):

• ESLint’s predefined recommended and all configs are now exported from a new @eslint/js package.
• The no-constant-binary-expression rule now catches more cases involving the nullish coalescing operator (??).
• A new version of the esquery selector engine includes performance improvements covered in a blog post by Marvin Hagemeister.

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Highlights (quoting the release notes):

• Update esbuild's handling of CSS nesting to match the latest specification changes
• Fix cross-file CSS rule deduplication involving url() tokens

Highlights of Lerna 6.5:

• Idempotency added to the lerna publish from-git command
• lerna run can run multiple scripts in a single command
• New --include-private option added to lerna publish

The article also covers how to get started with Lerna and the future of Lerna.

[Quoting the blog post:]

Turborepo 1.8 brings better flexibility and more control to your codebase by improving turbo’s understanding of your workspaces.

• Workspace Configurations: You can now add a turbo.json configuration file in a workspace to override the root configuration in your repository.
• Automatic Workspace Scoping: Global turbo now automatically infers your current workspace so that it only runs that workspace’s tasks.
• Easier Migrations: Automatically migrate to new versions of turbo with npx @turbo/codemod migrate.

Highlight: initial support for compiling a Node.js module into a stand-alone executable (that contains both the Node.js executable and the module).

Highlights (quoting the blog post):

• package.json support
• Stabilization of Node-API
• Node.js compatibility layer is now part of the runtime
• npm specifiers are supported in remote modules

[Quoting the readme:] Like JSON.stringify, but handles:

• cyclical references (obj.self = obj)
• repeated references ([value, value])
• undefined, Infinity, NaN, -0
• regular expressions
• dates
• Map and Set
• BigInt
• custom types via replacers, reducers and revivers

Quote: “In this first article, we will go through the background and basics of import maps and follow up with a second article explaining more details of import maps.”