https://textjs.org/blog News and engineering notes from the Text.js team. en Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://textjs.org/blog/text-js-1-0 https://textjs.org/blog/text-js-1-0 Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam React 19 and the App Router, rendered into the DevTools console with one console.log per frame. Text.js 1.0 is stable. https://textjs.org/blog/the-inverted-architecture https://textjs.org/blog/the-inverted-architecture Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam How a React commit becomes one console.log call in DevTools. https://textjs.org/blog/turbolog-eliminating-the-flash https://textjs.org/blog/turbolog-eliminating-the-flash Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Clearing the console before every frame left it visibly blank in 70–81% of DevTools paints. Appending frames brought that to 1%, all of it on the first frame. https://textjs.org/blog/right-to-left-text https://textjs.org/blog/right-to-left-text Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Text.js implements the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm and passes all 770,241 BidiTest.txt cases. Hebrew and Arabic render in visual order with Arabic shaping, aligned to the cell grid. https://textjs.org/blog/keyboard-shortcuts-with-usekeymap https://textjs.org/blog/keyboard-shortcuts-with-usekeymap Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Declare a binding once with useKeymap, and Text.js routes the key, lists it in a ? help screen, shows it in the footer and adds it to a Ctrl+K command palette. https://textjs.org/blog/server-rendering-in-the-console https://textjs.org/blog/server-rendering-in-the-console Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adam Text.js 0.4 can render a page on the server and stream its frames to the console as cell deltas. Static routes also prerender their first frame into the HTML. https://textjs.org/blog/figlet-fonts https://textjs.org/blog/figlet-fonts Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Adam @textjs/font parses FIGlet .flf fonts and lays them out like the figlet program. Its tests replay 273 outputs recorded from figlet 2.2.5, and all of them match. https://textjs.org/blog/laying-out-the-console-with-yoga https://textjs.org/blog/laying-out-the-console-with-yoga Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Adam Text.js runs Yoga in WebAssembly with a point scale factor of 1, so every box lands on a whole cell. Text is segmented with Intl.Segmenter and measured in cells. https://textjs.org/blog/text-js-0-1 https://textjs.org/blog/text-js-0-1 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Adam Text.js 0.1 brings a React 19 reconciler, Yoga layout and a file-system App Router to apps that render in the DevTools console. https://textjs.org/blog/rendering-react-into-console-log https://textjs.org/blog/rendering-react-into-console-log Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Adam Text.js draws a React app in the DevTools console as one styled console.log call per frame. How a frame is built, and why it is one call.