Web Development recap for week 18/2025

From 28/4/2025 to 4/5/2025

Articles #

• We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails 523 comments in 4 discussions

• Seeking an Answer: Why can’t HTML alone do includes? 365 comments in 2 discussions

• My pain building a WYSIWYG editor with contenteditable 238 comments in 6 discussions

• W3C Draft TAG Finding to Remove 3rd Party Cookies 233 comments in 2 discussions

• Deno’s Decline (6 Regions and Falling) 222 comments in 3 discussions

• divs are not buttons and they certainly aren't links 175 comments in 1 discussion

• Functional HTML 136 comments in 4 discussions

• Don't make Google sell Chrome 119 comments in 4 discussions

• Unpopular opinion: Redux Toolkit and Zustand aren't that different once you start structuring your state 91 comments in 1 discussion

• A better way to handle exceptions 83 comments in 1 discussion

• GSAP is completely free 81 comments in 1 discussion

• Giving software away for free 70 comments in 2 discussions

• Impossible Components 60 comments in 2 discussions

• You can serialize a promise in React 52 comments in 2 discussions

• From Rust to TypeScript: A New Chapter for Prisma ORM 51 comments in 1 discussion

Releases #

• express-generator-typescript v2.7.1 released. Generated starter project now uses Vitest instead of Jasmine for unit-testing

Projects #

• You Don't Need JavaScript 159 comments in 6 discussions

• Running Speech to Speech models on microcontrollers using Deno JS runtime 96 comments in 2 discussions

• Feather: A web framework that skips Rust’s async boilerplate and just works 64 comments in 2 discussions

• Open Source NoteTaking & Task App - Html & JS 63 comments in 10 discussions

• I made this tool open source to capture html elements as images 41 comments in 1 discussion

• "Code is good, but we rejected you because of a lack of documentation comments" 30 comments in 1 discussion

• Show HN: Typeconf – Dynamic Configs in TypeScript 28 comments in 2 discussions

• SwayJS: The next evolution of web frameworks for Node.js 13 comments in 2 discussions

• Node / Typescript / Fastify Template 🚀 12 comments in 1 discussion

• 🧠 Master JavaScript with 27+ Mini-Projects! Hands-on learning (Open Source) 11 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Your JWT + bcrypt Auth Isn’t As Secure As You Think 79 comments in 2 discussions

• Moving Beyond Containers - Introducing Boxer by Daniel Phillips @Wasm I/O 2025 19 comments in 2 discussions

• Async Svelte Explained in 4 minutes 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Why I'm Sticking with Cypress for Rails Devs 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Migrating a 75GB MySQL database to RDS with just 3 minutes of downtime (step-by-step guide) 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Snake Monster Cursor Animation | JavaScript Snake Animation That Chases the Mouse Cursor! #html #css 5 comments in 1 discussion

• React Compiler Explained in 3 Minutes 4 comments in 1 discussion