webpack 5.110.0 🎉 ⚡ New performance hints suite 🎨 Native CSS is the way forward — css-loader, style-loader & mini-css-extract-plugin deprecated 🗜️ Built-in CSS & HTML minification 📦 nodeModules externals preset 🌳 Better tree shaking & scope hoisting webpack.js.org/blog/2026-08...

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webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

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It’s been two great years being active in Express. Now it’s time to step back and focus on other projects :) I’m not leaving the project entirely, but I am stepping away from what the Triage role entailed. github.com/expressjs/di...

docs: remove @bjohansebas from the Triage Captain and TypeScript Captain by bjohansebas · Pull Request #517 · expressjs/discussions

As I mentioned to Ulises privately, the project has been stagnant in many areas, and now that I have the energy/time, I’m not really sure where to focus anymore. My roles as a Triage Captain don’t ...

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Well, I guess I have to unsubscribe from some repos because the amount of notifications has become inhumane, and I just don't have the time anymore :(

Maintaining documentation is also important, and it can even take more time than maintaining the code.

Well, tomorrow is my last day of vacation. I'm going to dedicate it to Express. It was a great vacation, full of OSS work 😂. But hey, I learned a lot.

Something I've been working on for the past few days is making webpack's HMR avoid recompiling the entire project and instead only rebuild the affected parts. That should make development mode significantly faster. github.com/webpack/webp...

feat: incremental make for watch rebuilds by bjohansebas · Pull Request #21556 · webpack/webpack

Summary Makes watch rebuilds incremental: the previous compilation's module graph and module set are reused, changed modules are detected via their build/resolve snapshots and only those are...

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Hey! Do you happen to have a large webpack-based project? I'd love to benchmark it and see how the performance improvements we've made over the last few minor releases hold up. The next release should have an even bigger impact. 🚀

What a night

It's ironic that, with each passing day, I question more and more why i contribute to Express 🫠

Officially part of the webpack core now! 🙂 github.com/webpack/webp...

chore: nominate @bjohansebas to core-wg by avivkeller · Pull Request #21495 · webpack/webpack

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🎉 WOW! Webpack 5.109 is now available 🤯 ✨ Zero-config support for CSS, HTML, TS, and WASM 🎯 `import.meta.glob` and `import.meta.resolve` ⚡ CommonJS module concatenation 📊 Built-in progress bar Learn more: webpack.js.org/blog/2026-07...

Webpack 5.109 | webpack

webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

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Haha, writing the webpack blog posts always teaches me something new. I keep discovering things I didn't even know were possible in JavaScript.

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I've been spending days building a complete mental model for how Express could support both QUIC and HTTP/1, while also making a gradual transition to the `fetch` server model, alongside major improvements to the Express router.

Sebastian Beltran@bjohansebas.me · 2mo ago

Thinking about how Express could support QUIC is both fun and challenging. It would also let us move toward a model like Hono and other frameworks that are built around Web Streams, which is essentially the direction Node.js wants to move toward in the future.

Haha, today I got an email from a random person about `iconv-lite` and an issue with Cloudflare that I apparently fixed. The question is... what issue did I fix for Cloudflare? 😆

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webpack module bundler@webpack.js.org · 2mo ago

new platform, who dis? (it's us, webpack!) This is our only account here. You can tell it's actually us because the handle matches our domain (webpack.js.org). anything else claiming to be webpack isn't official.

new platform, who dis? (it's us, webpack!) This is our only account here. You can tell it's actually us because the handle matches our domain (webpack.js.org). anything else claiming to be webpack isn't official.

Did you know that, according to the HTTP specification, you can send the NEL (0x85) line separator in header values, even though other line separators such as \n are not allowed?

I love Claude's code review feature. It's really useful.

🚀 raw-body v4 is out • Web streams support (ReadableStream) via getRawBodyWeb • Native TextDecoder by default, with a decoder option to plug in your own • Now ESM-only • Fails fast when a body exceeds its declared length ⚠️ Requires Node 22+ Full changelog 👇

Thinking about how Express could support QUIC is both fun and challenging. It would also let us move toward a model like Hono and other frameworks that are built around Web Streams, which is essentially the direction Node.js wants to move toward in the future.

I love the new `https://github.com/pulls/inbox` view. It really helps me see just how many PRs I've piled up. 😅

That's right. I haven't released raw-body@4 yet because I'm making sure there aren't any performance regressions

in the next major version of raw-body, there will be support for Web Streams. This will allow body-parser and other implementations to use it as middleware in environments where Web Streams are preferred over Node.js streams. github.com/stream-utils...

feat: support reading from WHATWG ReadableStreams by bjohansebas · Pull Request #148 · stream-utils/raw-body

getRawBody() now accepts web streams in addition to Node.js readable streams: fetch Request/Response bodies, Blob.stream(), TransformStream readables, and Readable.toWeb() bridges. Both the promise...

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expressjs.com uses astro 7

Express.js · Node.js web application framework

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

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Roman@rman.dev · 2mo ago

dependents.dev also uses Astro 7 now

🚀 webpack-dev-server v6.0.0 is here! ✨ Native ES modules (ESM + CJS builds) 🔌 Can now be used as a webpack plugin ⚡ Express 5 + http-proxy-middleware v4 🟢 Node.js >= 22.15.0 Release notes 👇 github.com/webpack/webp...

Release v6.0.0 · webpack/webpack-dev-server

Major Changes Bump Express to v5. See the Express 5 migration guide for the full list of breaking changes. (by @bjohansebas in #5674) Bump the webpack peer dependency range from ^5.0.0 to ^5.10...

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