Reading up on Rollup

The article argues that while modern CSS and JS features reduce the need for many build tools, bundling and minification remain essential for larger projects.

Vite 8 replaces esbuild and Rollup with a single Rust-based bundler, Rolldown, delivering up to 10-30x faster builds.

jQuery 4.0.0 final release drops IE<11 support, removes deprecated APIs, adopts ES modules, adds Trusted Types support, and reduces size by over 3KB gzipped.