Hello fellow racletteers!

This week’s update is a smaller but important release focused on correctness and stability inside the routing layer.

Meanwhile, outside the codebase, racletteJS made an appearance on stage — and a new tool from the ecosystem quietly debuted in alpha.

Let’s see what melted into the stack.

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🚀 New Release: racletteJS 0.1.23

All core packages have been released as version 0.1.23.

This release mainly focuses on improving routing behavior and internal consistency.

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@raclettejs/core

🔧 Route Params with Nullish Values

A subtle bug in the Orchestrator / Frontend routing layer has been fixed.

Previously, route parameters with null or undefined values were not always passed correctly to widget components.

This could lead to situations where widgets behaved differently depending on how parameters were generated or omitted in URLs.

With 0.1.23, route params are now passed through properly even when they contain nullish values.

This improves reliability for:

• optional route parameters
• dynamic widget configuration
• conditional routing logic

It’s a small fix — but one that prevents some very annoying edge cases in real-world portal applications.

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@raclettejs/workbench

Workbench received the usual version alignment updates with the rest of the racletteJS core packages.

No functional changes this week, but keeping the packages synchronized ensures compatibility across the ecosystem.

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🌍 Ecosystem Updates

🎤 Talk at DecompileD 2026 in Dresden: Portal Hell

Our Cheese Queen recently gave a talk at decompiled titled:

“Portal Hell: Why building platforms always feels harder than it should.”

The talk explores a problem many organizations eventually run into:

Building internal platforms, dashboards, and portal systems tends to become far more complex than expected.

Topics included:

• why portal architectures often spiral into complexity
• common platform engineering pitfalls
• the hidden cost of custom dashboard stacks
• patterns that make platform development sustainable

If you've ever tried to build multi-tenant dashboards, internal developer portals, or extensible enterprise platforms, the pain points will probably feel very familiar.

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🧀 Sneak Peek: CheezySlides (Alpha)

The presentation itself was delivered using an early alpha version of a new tool from the ecosystem:

CheezySlides

CheezySlides is an upcoming presentation system designed for developers and technical teams.

The plan is to release it in two ways:

• SaaS offering
• Open-source version for self-hosters

This should make it possible to create fully version-controlled, developer-friendly presentations that integrate nicely into technical workflows.

More details will follow as the project matures — but the first live test already happened on stage.

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🔥 What This Means

This week’s release is intentionally small, but still valuable.

The nullish route param fix improves stability in dynamic routing scenarios — something that becomes increasingly important as racletteJS applications grow in complexity.

Meanwhile, the ecosystem keeps expanding:

• racletteJS appearing at conferences
• new tools like CheezySlides emerging
• continued iteration on the core framework

Step by step, the platform stack becomes more complete.

And yes — there are still many things cooking behind the scenes.

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Until the next melt 🧀

The Cheesy People