--- title: "The tale of a bizarre bug encountered in Google Docs" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 729 published_at: "2025-03-28" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/729" --- Plus Babylon.js 8.0, a fantastic look at the state of Vue.js in 2025, and one team's tale of leaving jQuery behind. | #​729 — March 28, 2025 [Read on the Web](https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/729) Together with [![Frontend Masters logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_300,h_70/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/nk0tfdvalivacz8rw7rt.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/dev-tools-v4/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=javascriptweekly&utm_content=devtoolsv4) JavaScript Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/zzc1abyhqafbilwcbga2.jpg)](https://www.monterail.com/stateofvue) ⭐ [The State of Vue.js Report 2025](https://www.monterail.com/stateofvue) — Created with the support of the Vue and Nuxt teams, this is no mere collection of statistics and charts (though there’s plenty of both) but a thorough update on the state of both projects and an interview with Evan You on Vue (and Vite's) latest developments. 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Here, he walks us through the design choices made while building React Query and shares lessons and mistakes valuable to anyone building their own libraries. _(30 minutes.)_ Dominik Dorfmeister (TkDodo) [Deploying a Next.js App to Production on Any Server](https://www.saybackend.com/blog/04-deploy-nextjs-to-production-without-vercel) — A popular article from last year that’s been updated for 2025 and Next.js 15. Kamrannetic [🔒 Protect Against AI Bots, Fraud, and Abuse in Real Time](https://workos.com/radar?utm_source=cpjs&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12025) — WorkOS Radar protects your app with advanced device fingerprinting — stop fake signups, free tier abuse, bot attacks and brute force attempts today. WorkOS sponsor 📄 [Expressing Japanese Grammar in the TypeScript Type System](https://github.com/typedgrammar/typed-japanese/blob/main/blog.md) – A curious project out of left field. Yifeng Wang 📄 [Directives: A Core Feature of the Angular Toolkit](https://medium.com/coreteq/directives-a-core-feature-of-the-angular-toolkit-34ccec531e19) Vyacheslav Borodin 📄 [You Should Know This Before Choosing Next.js](https://eduardoboucas.com/posts/2025-03-25-you-should-know-this-before-choosing-nextjs/) Eduardo Bouças 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/iwy5nu8kkpvcwitzirnv.jpg)](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/03/27/announcing-babylon-js-8-0/) [Babylon.js 8.0: Microsoft's JavaScript 3D Engine](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/03/27/announcing-babylon-js-8-0/) — 8.0 adds support for improved ‘image based lighting’ and ‘area lights’ for environmental lighting and shadows, extra control of the render pipeline, and a new lightweight viewer. And, as always, they have [▶️ a short video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKaomUggipQ) showing it all off. 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