State of JS, Node Release Schedule Revisited, and WebMCP | News | Ep 57

News for the week of Feb 23, 2026: highlights from the State of JS survey, Node is revamping its release schedule, and Bun finally gets stage 3 decorator support. From the community: Deno's code-first sandboxes, typesafe `Map.has()`, and Electrobun rendering with WebGPU.

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Chapters

• (00:00) - Welcome to the Show
• (06:37) - News: State of JS Survey Insights
• (16:48) - News: Deno 2.7 Marks Temporal API as Stable
• (19:24) - News: Node 24.14.0 and 25.7.0 Releases
• (21:13) - News: Node's New Release Schedule in 2027
• (25:13) - News: Bun 1.3.10 Ships Stage 3 Decorators and Native REPL
• (28:04) - News: WebMCP Becomes a W3C Standard
• (33:20) - News: React Foundation Officially Launches
• (34:57) - Library Watch: unbash Parses Bash in Pure TypeScript
• (36:29) - Library Watch: decoders, a Zod-alternative That Reads Like TS
• (37:30) - Community Highlight: What's New in ViteLand February 2026
• (38:42) - Community Highlight: Safe Cloud Execution with Dino Sandboxes
• (40:00) - Community Highlight: Fixing Map.has() by Typed Rocks
• (41:12) - Community Highlight: The React Doctor Is In by Better Stack
• (41:59) - Community Highlights: Electrobun with Native Window + WebGPU
• (43:55) - Community Highlight: TypeScript Foundations Workshop by KCD
• (45:33) - Cool Link: Firefox 148 Ships CSS shape() Support
• (46:36) - Cool Link: Hank Green on Why AI Scares Him
• (47:47) - Cool Link: Rebuilding Pokemon with OO Programming
• (48:52) - Cool Link: MCP is Dead. Long Live the CLI.
• (52:36) - Cool Cookies: Support My Girl Scout
• (54:44) - The Minnesota Long Goodbye

News

• State of JS 2025
• Deno 2.7: Temporal API, Windows ARM, and npm overrides
• Node 24.14.0 and 25.7.0 releases
• Node 27 release schedule sneak peek
• Bun 1.3.10 introduces native REPL, TC39 Stage 3 decorators
• WebMCP: Expose your web app as MCP tools (client-side) (see Kamran's Bsky thread)
• The React Foundation: A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation

Library Watch

• Unbash: zero dep bash parser written in TS
• decoders: a Zod alternative (via Chris Nicholas)

From the Community

• VoidZero: What's New in ViteLand: February 2026
• Deno Safe Cloud Code Execution with Snapshots (Python Pre-Installed, Zero Wait)
• TypeRocks: I Fixed TypeScript's Map.has() Type Inference (Here's How)
• Better Stack: I thought I was a Senior React Dev... until I ran React Doctor.
• Electrobun: Now with Native Window + WebGPU
• KCD has a new workshop, Practical TypeScript

Cool Links

• Cool Tip: Firefox 148 and CSS shape()
• Cool Read: MCP is dead. Long live the CLI
• Cool Watch: Rebuilding Pokémon with Object Oriented Programming
• Cool Watch: Hank Green on AI: This is Going to be Very Messy
• Cool Read: Red Queen Effect

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)