Web Development recap for week 51/2024

From 16/12/2024 to 22/12/2024

Articles #

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) 574 comments in 2 discussions

• Free Github Copilot for VS Code 492 comments in 4 discussions

• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect 365 comments in 3 discussions

• Django vs. Pocketbase as backend 201 comments in 6 discussions

• JSDoc as an Alternative TypeScript Syntax 184 comments in 2 discussions

• WeUseRails – Discover companies using Ruby on Rails 139 comments in 2 discussions

• Design Token-Based UI Architecture 138 comments in 1 discussion

• My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red 114 comments in 2 discussions

• OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider 72 comments in 1 discussion

• NHL Play - website for easy to access NHL statistics 71 comments in 4 discussions

• PSA: You can have arrays with a minimum length. 69 comments in 1 discussion

• You might not need a React Form Library 61 comments in 1 discussion

• I rebuilt my website as a Windows 95 experience with SolidJS and Astro 60 comments in 3 discussions

• Django security hardenings that are not happening 57 comments in 2 discussions

• How to fix Postgresql connection (cursor) errors when using connection pooling (e.g. with Azure Database for Postgresql) 57 comments in 4 discussions

Releases #

• New gem released! rails_local_analytics 21 comments in 1 discussion

• Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications 17 comments in 2 discussions

• After a Year of Work, I’ve Released a Major Version of My Flowchart Library 7 comments in 2 discussions

• Astro JavaScript 5.0 Released

Projects #

• Node.js Best Practices 2024 94 comments in 5 discussions

• XState – State machines for state management in JavaScript 86 comments in 2 discussions

• Rivet Actors, Cloudflare Durable Objects-like infrastructure built with Rust, FoundationDB, V8 Isolates 84 comments in 5 discussions

• Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript 65 comments in 1 discussion

• An end-to-end data pipeline tool in Go called Bruin  50 comments in 2 discussions

• Beaware of these Scammers 28 comments in 1 discussion

• Why APICraft Rails was created... 26 comments in 6 discussions

• Fornax - A Front-End Web Framework Powered By Bun 24 comments in 2 discussions

• nano-queries: Simple and powerful database-agnostic query builder (SQLite, Postgres, GraphQL, PGlite etc). 20 comments in 1 discussion

• Active Module: Let's turn modules and classes into first-class active record values! 19 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Spin v3: Deploy Laravel Like a Pro (Without Being a DevOps Expert) [more in comments] 27 comments in 1 discussion

• It took me way longer than I'd like to admit to realize how crucial setting up CustomUser is before the first migration. 27 comments in 1 discussion

• Djangoroad YouTube channel gone? I've tried to look for the WSGI video for a refresher, but it seems like her channel is gone. :( 9 comments in 1 discussion

• Persistent Stores in Svelte 5 7 comments in 1 discussion

• Make The Most of Laravel's Built-In Helpers | Learn Laravel The Right Way 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Someone Built the Same App in ALL Versions of PHP (1995-2025) 5 comments in 1 discussion

• 💎 New Laravel Gem: Pipelines 4 comments in 1 discussion