Mistral Forge, Astro 6, and Vite news

Salut, web dev friends! 🧑‍💻

I have selected some news from the web dev world to share.

Have a great week.

Mistral Forge is a system by Mistral to trained their open-source model on proprietary entreprise knowledge.

I migrated my blog from eleventy to Astro some weeks ago and now Astro 6 is out ! I love it. New compiler with Rust, Fonts API, Content Security Policy API, Improved support for Cloudflare.

• Oxfmt Beta: Full Prettier Compatibility
• Vite 8, plugin registry
• Vitest, filter for slow UI’s tests.
• Rolldown, 9.6% faster, experimentable nodejs executable.
• Oxc : 12 new rules type aware linting, ~4% ~6% faster.

• Text wrapping.
• Concentric border radius tricks
• Animate icons contextually with opacity, scale and blur.
• Use make text crispy with font smoothing
• Use tabular numbers for animating number
• Make your animations interruptible
• Split and stagger entering elements, never animate all element at the same times
• Make exit animation more subtle, to make it more smooth for the eye
• Align optically, not geometrically

Web tools and Library

🪄 Optimo — Media Compression Commands Effortless media optimizer for the web. Free, open-source CLI that optimizes and converts images and videos using format-specific compression built on ImageMagick and FFmpeg.

☀️ Radiant — Open Source Shaders & Effects Production ready shaders & effects for the web. No dependencies. Just drop in.

🌍 Shuding/cobe 5KB WebGL globe lib. Use any DOM element as bindable markers.CSS transitions, animations, filters, interactivity, all just work. High perf, zero deps, ~5KB.

🎫 Flux YoanDev | Veille technologique Own RSS reader of YoanDev, I need to this for my blog !!