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React Aria Components, Optimized Barrel File Imports, and ActivityPub Support in WordPress

🌐 Faster web, here we come! React Aria's unstyled components bring simplicity to design. Next.js is turbocharging build times by optimizing barrel file imports. Plus, WordPress sites join the open social web with ActivityPub! It's a tech trifecta! 💻⚡️

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In this episode, we share how the React Aria team has released a new library of unstyled components which work seamlessly with vanilla CSS, Tailwind, Styled Components, and more. The Next.js team blogged about how they optimized package imports to improve both local dev performance and production cold starts through the use of barrel files; a way to group and export modules from a single file. WordPress has announced official support for ActivityPub, the plug-in allowing social networks to talk across platforms (the "fediverse"). And finally, Node.js 20.6.0 sounds the death knell for the immensely popular dotenv package by introducing native support for loading environment variable files.

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