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📨 #118: Gatsby, Beta Docs, Reactivity, Lazy Maps, Ezno, Whyframe, Reassure, Node.js, TypeScript, WASM...

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Sébastien Lorber
Sébastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

Good news: the new React beta docs will be available soon! A link on the old doc invites to visit the new beta site. Gatsby v5 released alpha.

The current trend: bringing reactivity to React.

Some nice React-Native content too. We are watching closely the progress of Expo Router, WishList and web support in Reassure.

TypeScript celebrates its 10th anniversary. A --watch mode is coming in Node.js. Interesting content about WebAssembly.

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