News: Bun 1.2, Tailwind CSS v4, and React Scan 0.1

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This week, the team behind JavaScript runtime Bun drops some major updates into Bun 1.2. Bun introduces a built-in S3 storage API, a built-in Postgres client (with MySQL coming soon), 90% compatibility with Node.js, and it’s faster than ever before.

Tailwind CSS v4 is out as well, and it boasts a new higher performance engine for 5x faster full builds, support for cutting edge CSS features like cascade layers, custom properties, and container queries, a simplified initial install and config to get going, and a first-party Vite plugin.
And React Scan, built by Aiden Bai who also built Million.js, is also out this week with v0.1. Install React Scan into any React app and it will auto detect performance issues due to excessive re-rendering, and highlight the components causing the issues.

News:

• Paige - Tailwind CSS v4.0
• Jack - React Scan 0.1 (aka Million.js)
• TJ - Bun 1.2

Bonus News:

• Stargate
• OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you

Fire Starters:

• Link to text fragments with #:~:text=

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Puzzles (like the ones from Buffalo Games)
• Jack - Klipsch G-17 air wireless speaker
• TJ - Not So Super, Apple

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