Experimental new browser engine
Web Engines Hackfest 2025
I Tested EVERY Modern Browser UI to find the BEST
More performant, diverse Web engines – 26 March 2025
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Datastar: Modern web dev, simplified
You love building web apps with Python, and HTMX got you excited about the hypermedia approach -- let the server drive the HTML, skip the JavaScript build step, keep things simple. But then you hit that last 10%: You need Alpine.js for interactivity, your state gets out of sync, and suddenly you're juggling two unrelated libraries that weren't designed to work together. What if there was a single 11-kilobyte framework that gave you everything HTMX and Alpine do, and more, with real-time updates, multiplayer collaboration out of the box, and performance so fast you're actually bottlenecked by the monitor's refresh rate? That's Datastar. On this episode, I sit down with its creator Delaney Gillilan, core maintainer Ben Croker, and Datastar convert Chris May to explore how this backend-driven, server-sent-events-first framework is changing the way full-stack developers think about the modern web.
Writing a Web-based Editor from Scratch
At some point a while back I decided that I was going to write the front end of Weaver in Rust. I'd looked through the various 'fullstack' web application frameworks kicking around, and while they still had a ways to go, they seemed complete enough. Plus I wanted to write a semi-custom Markdown parser and renderer, to support features I wanted to exist in Weaver, like atproto record embeds, dual-column mode, and resizable images, and since I also wanted it to be fast, that meant that at least a portion of the front-end codebase would be in Rust, and Javascript-Rust FFI wasn't something I had dealt with a lot yet.
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The future of the web: interfaces and tools will be built on-the-fly as you browse. This is an actual demo from our latest release. Join the waitlist @getperhaps pic.twitter.com/daObJ1FvWl— Ignacio Soffia (@ignaciosoffia) September 5, 2024
High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly)
What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.
Announcing Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers
Since Google announced the Chromium project in 2008, we have been excited to build on the great foundations of open-source web browsers and contribute to the continued d…
Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
From the Zed Blog: A deep-dive into the graphical underpinnings of GPUI, the hardware-accelerated framework that powers Zed's user interface.
Introducing Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser
A Firefox fork with a TypeScript config that lets you build anything.
Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade
Native browser APIs now provide powerful alternatives for routing, state management, and components. Never mind the frameworks, use the browser.
