4 briefs— one-minute reads, curated for senior frontend engineers.
Edge 153 withholds `unload` handlers on 60% of page loads and climbs to 100% by Edge 155, while Chrome reaches those same shares on different milestones.
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Astro 7.2's experimental incremental builds reuse unchanged pages across runs, so large static sites stop re-rendering thousands of slug routes for every content edit.
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Node.js 26.7.0 adds Perfetto tracing support, so server-side profile output opens in the same Perfetto tooling you already use for browser performance work.
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WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) is now supported in all major browsers and Node.js. This removes the biggest barrier to running managed languages (Java, Kotlin, Dart, OCaml) directly in the browser at near-native speed.
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