https://markojs.com Monthly updates from the Marko team. en Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/august-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/august-2026 Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shorthand methods accept async, with parser, editor, and formatter support landing together Layouts without interactivity stay out of the client bundle, and runtime that a page does not use is tree-shaken away Marko Run supports the QUERY method and answers malformed requests with proper status codes More compiler diagnostics name the variable, the rule, and the fix Work is well underway on persisted pages, which keep browser state alive across navigations https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/july-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/july-2026 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marko Run gained request validation, a data loading pattern, and typed URLs Pages ship less JavaScript, and the compiler itself shrank by 22% <style> tags accept ${...} interpolations for per-instance values Compiler diagnostics suggest the correct form, and packages ship a cheat sheet for coding agents https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/june-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/june-2026 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marko 6 is now the default marko on npm Native asset management with automatic lazy loading A Zed extension and a tree-sitter grammar for Marko Faster server rendering through compile-time attribute inlining Synchronous <await> for values that are not promises https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/may-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/may-2026 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Less over-serialization, so resumable pages ship smaller payloads Pages with no interactivity emit no client assets at all A smaller DOM runtime bundle Fixes for SVG class bindings, ${ in attribute values, and attribute tags https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/april-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/april-2026 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Safer escaping inside <script>, <style>, and comment tags Vite 8 support with dev-server hot-reload fixes TSRX, an experiment in writing Marko in a JSX-like TypeScript syntax TypeScript 6 across the language tools https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/march-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/march-2026 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bound attribute modifiers like value:Number:=quantity "Did you mean" suggestions for unknown tags Full Rolldown support and initial Vite 8 compatibility Better support for apps embedded inside another app https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/february-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/february-2026 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Prettier plugin rewritten on the new parser, preserving shorthands and producing idempotent output Controllable attributes unified across <let> and native tags, with number support The compiler now vendors Babel internally, making upgrades and browser compilation more robust Smaller serialized output by deduping repeated long strings https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/january-2026 https://markojs.com/docs/newsletter/january-2026 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A large batch of compiler fixes for variable hoisting, scope analysis, and rest inputs Steadier type checking in the language server pnpm project discovery for editor tooling Interop and controllable-input fixes for mixed Class API and Tags API apps