Roundup June 2025
Welcome to the June 2025 tech roundup! This month has been packed with exciting developments, from Apple's WWDC 2025 unveiling a sleek new design language to a slew of powerful tools and frameworks that are reshaping how we build software. As a developer, I'm thrilled to dive into these updates and share my thoughts on how they might impact our workflows. Let's explore the highlights!
Roundups
Apple WWDC 2025
Apple's WWDC 2025 introduced the "Liquid Glass" design, a translucent, adaptive interface inspired by visionOS, set to redefine iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26 (WWDC 2025). The shift to a year-based naming convention signals a unified approach across platforms. Specific sessions like "Liquid Glass Design" and "Containerization" highlight new possibilities for developers (Liquid Glass, Containerization). As a developer, I'm excited about crafting apps that leverage this visually stunning and productivity-focused design, though I’m curious how it will perform in real-world applications.
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Google Announces Gemini CLI
Google's Gemini CLI brings AI directly to the terminal, enabling developers to automate tasks and generate code seamlessly (Gemini CLI). Integrated with Gemini 2.5 Pro and open-sourced under Apache 2.0, it offers a 1 million token context window and supports tasks like code understanding and dynamic troubleshooting. I’m eager to see how this can streamline my command-line workflows, especially for quick scripting and debugging tasks.
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Biome v2 Release
Biome v2, codenamed Biotype, is the first JavaScript/TypeScript linter with type-aware rules without the TypeScript compiler, offering a performance boost with rules like noFloatingPromises detecting issues in ~75% of cases compared to typescript-eslint (Biome v2). It improves monorepo support, introduces linter plugins, and adds Biome Assist for actions like import organization. Import organization is one of the long awaited features that finally landed.
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Vite v7 is Out
Vite v7, released on June 24, 2025, updates browser targets to 'baseline-widely-available' (e.g., Chrome 107, Safari 16.0) (Vite v7). It supports Node.js 20.19+ and includes a new buildApp hook. These changes promise to make frontend development smoother, especially for large projects.
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Cloudflare Containers
Cloudflare’s Containers, now in public beta as of June 24, 2025, allow developers to run containerized apps alongside Workers, offering global deployment and JavaScript control (Cloudflare Containers). Use cases include media processing and code sandboxing. This flexibility is a big win for edge computing.
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Angular v20
Angular v20 stabilizes APIs like effect, linkedSignal, and toSignal, enhances debugging with Chrome DevTools integration, and supports GenAI development with llms.txt (Angular v20). Features like incremental hydration and zoneless change detection make it more robust. I’m excited to explore its new features, especially for building AI-powered web apps.
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Ark UI Svelte
Ark UI’s Svelte support brings the headless component library to Svelte 5, with over 45 reactive components using $state and $effect (Ark UI Svelte). This opens the potential to build complex and performant UIs with ease.
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IntentUI v3 Release
IntentUI v3 brings a major overhaul with seven new components, including toggle-group, area-chart, and line-chart, and a complete rewrite of nearly every existing component. Built on React Aria Components and Tailwind CSS, it emphasizes accessibility and ease of customization. I’m excited to use these components into my projects for quick, accessible UIs.
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TipTap Open Source Previously Pro Extensions
TipTap has open-sourced several previously Pro extensions under the MIT license, making advanced features like collaborative editing and AI commands freely available (TipTap Extensions). This move empowers developers to build sophisticated rich text editors.
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Oxlint 1.0 Stable
Oxlint 1.0, built in Rust, offers linting 50–100x faster than ESLint with over 500 rules, including unique ones like no-barrel-file (Oxlint 1.0). Adopted by Shopify and Airbnb, it completes linting on 126,000+ files in 7 seconds.
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State of Devs 2025 Result
The State of Devs 2025 survey, with 8,717 respondents, highlights a significant increase in participation from women, focusing on topics beyond coding such as workplace issues, health, and hobbies (State of Devs 2025). The results, released in two parts, offer valuable insights into the developer community, including personal stories shared by respondents. As a developer, I find this report particularly insightful as it emphasizes the importance of diversity and holistic well-being in our industry. It’s encouraging to see the community expanding its horizons beyond just code, recognizing that developers are multifaceted individuals with diverse interests and challenges.
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Personal Discoveries
Readings
Why is quality so rare?: Linear’s article explores why quality is elusive in software, citing cost prioritization and AI’s impact, with insights on their quality-driven approach.
Apps / Toolings / Platforms
Codegen: AI-powered autonomous agents streamline development workflows.
Lummi AI: Free AI-generated stock images and illustrations for designers.
ReactRaptor: Detects Android apps built with React Native.
Sealos: Simplifies Kubernetes deployment for cloud-native apps.
Claw Cloud: Affordable, high-performance VPS for developers.
ForesightJS: Predicts user intent to prefetch content, boosting web performance.
Rustdesk: Open-source remote desktop software with self-hosted options.
Cookiebench: Benchmarks performance impact of cookie banners.
Tempo: Visual editor for React code, bridging design and development.
Rork: AI-driven platform for generating React Native apps.
Jan AI: Offline, open-source ChatGPT alternative.
Misc
Windsurf SWE-1: AI models optimized for the entire software engineering process.
HextaUI: UI component library with Radix UI and Tailwind CSS.
Conclusion
June 2025 has been a whirlwind of innovation, with Apple’s "Liquid Glass" design setting a new standard for UI and tools like Gemini CLI and Oxlint pushing developer productivity to new heights. The personal discoveries highlight intriguing platforms, from AI-driven app generators to performance optimizers. I hope this roundup sparks inspiration for your next project. Happy coding, and see you next month!