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This week’s stack is sharper, more secure, and increasingly self-aware. Angular steps into its zoneless future, Remix opens its doors to the community, and the npm ecosystem gets another wake-up call, this time from polymorphic malware. The AI conversation turns introspective, with Claude getting smarter (but secretive).

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Also worth your time: Learn React Hooks, 2nd Edition dropped, just in time for React 19. Custom hooks, cleaner state logic, and the end of class components; this one’s your upgrade guide.

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If you've ever dealt with vendor onboarding or third-party cloud audits, you know how painful it can be: long email chains, stale spreadsheets, and questionnaires that don’t reflect what’s actually happening in the cloud.

We recently came across CloudVRM, and it’s a refreshingly modern take on the problem.

Instead of asking vendors to fill out forms or send evidence, CloudVRM connects directly to their AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. It pulls real-time telemetry every 24 hours, flags misconfigs, and maps everything to compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DORA.

It’s already being used by banks and infra-heavy orgs to speed up vendor approvals by 85% and reduce audit overhead by 90%.

Worth checking out if you're building or maintaining systems in regulated environments, or just tired of spreadsheet security.

Frameworks leveled up, malware took aim, and AI stirred the pot (again). Here's what the web dev world chewed on this week.

The dev community’s looking ahead: Some cloning apps for fun, others predicting frameworks, ethics, and AI identity crises. 2025’s shaping up to be less about syntax, more about choices. And yes, vibe shifts included.

📘 Learn React Hooks, 2nd Edition by Daniel Bugl

React 19 is here, and with it comes a sharper, cleaner, more powerful Hooks story. If you’re still reaching for useStateand calling it a day, this book is your next upgrade.

Author Daniel Bugl walks you through everything, from building your first Hook-based app to writing custom Hooks, handling form actions, and replacing class components like it’s 2018 calling.

About the author

Daniel Bugl is a full-stack developer, product designer, and entrepreneur specializing in web technologies. He holds a BSc in business informatics and an MSc in data science from TU Wien. A contributor to open source and an active React community member, he founded TouchLay, a hardware/software startup helping businesses showcase their offerings. He’s also served as a technical advisor and full-stack dev for large enterprises and the Austrian government, building citizen services and more.

Here’s an excerpt from the book that shows how to make state shareable, clean, and debounced, using a custom Hook that syncs with the URL without spamming history.

Creating the Debounced History State Hook

Let’s now get started extracting the code from the CreatePost component into a Debounced
History State Hook:

1. Copy the Chapter12_3 folder to a new Chapter12_4 folder by executing the following command:

$ cp -R Chapter12_3 Chapter12_4

2. Open the new Chapter12_4 folder in VS Code.

3. Create a new src/hooks/debouncedHistoryState.js file.

4. Inside it, import the following:

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
import { useDebouncedCallback } from 'use-debounce'
import { useHistoryState } from '@uidotdev/usehooks'

5. Define a function that accepts an initial state and a timeout value for the debounce:

export function useDebouncedHistoryState(initialState, timeout) {

6. Now, define the History State Hook:

const { state, set, undo, redo, clear, canUndo, canRedo } =
useHistoryState(initialState)

7. Next, define a State Hook for the actively edited content:

const [content, setContent] = useState(initialState)

8. Then, define a Debounced Callback Hook that will set the value of the History State Hook:

const debounced = useDebouncedCallback((value) =>
set(value), timeout)

9. Add the Effect Hook that we had before in the CreatePost component:

useEffect(() => {
debounced.cancel()
setContent(state)
}, [state, debounced])

Remember, this Effect Hook is used to sync the History State back into the actively edited
content state, meaning that it will change the content of the textbox whenever we trigger
the undo, redo, or clear functionality.

10. Now, define a handler function which sets the content state and starts the debounced
callback:

function handleContentChange(e) {
const { value } = e.target
setContent(value)
debounced(value)
}

11. Finally, return all the values and functions we need from the Hook:

return { content, handleContentChange, undo, redo, clear, canUndo,
canRedo }
}

We now have a drop-in replacement for the Debounced History State functionality, which is used in the CreatePostcomponent, so let’s implement it!

🤖 Even Sundar Pichai’s vibe-coding now

Vibe coding? You know it, you’ve seen it, you might already be doing it. Now Sundar Pichai’s officially on board. The Google CEO revealed he’s been spending time riffing with AI tools, coding by description, not syntax. If the guy running Google is vibe-coding, safe to say it’s more than just a phase.

🛠️ Don’t sleep on SCIM

If you’re building anything that touches user management for enterprise clients, SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s table stakes. This spec handles user provisioning, deprovisioning, and role updates automatically via APIs. Translation: no more janky sync scripts or angry IT teams. It’s the kind of protocol you won’t notice... until you desperately need it. Learn it before your biggest customer asks why you don’t support it.

Logging your daily wins, bugs, and lessons isn't just for retros, it's for you. A dev journal helps you track progress, spot patterns, and level up faster.

Get started:

📘 You should keep a developer’s journal – Stack Overflow

🛠️ Flow by Invide – Minimalist dev journaling tool

📋 Developer Brain Template – Notion Marketplace

Start small: jot down a few bullet points at the end of each day. Your future self will thank you!

Not every week reshapes your workflow but this one nudged the edges. From vibe-coding going mainstream to frameworks tightening up, and protocols like SCIM reminding us the boring bits still matter.

Until next time, build thoughtfully.

Cheers!

Kinnari Chohan,

Editor-in-chief