Web Development recap for week 19/2025

From 5/5/2025 to 11/5/2025

Articles #

• Plain Vanilla Web 517 comments in 5 discussions

• WebAssembly 2.0 316 comments in 5 discussions

• Open source project curl is sick of users submitting "AI slop" vulnerabilities 299 comments in 3 discussions

• What Do You Think of the New GTA VI Webpage Design? 240 comments in 3 discussions

• This misleading useState code is spreading on LinkedIn like wildfire. 212 comments in 1 discussion

• Static as a Server 160 comments in 4 discussions

• Game jam for web devs to try building games starts May 16 125 comments in 17 discussions

• Critical CSS Generator Tool 123 comments in 3 discussions

• RSC for Astro Developers — overreacted 88 comments in 4 discussions

• Kysely: The type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript 87 comments in 3 discussions

• No, react context is not causing too many renders 83 comments in 1 discussion

• TypeScript Input Event Handler 80 comments in 10 discussions

• No, not every website needs to be an SPA. Built something with Django—fast, clean, and people love it. 65 comments in 1 discussion

• An Introduction to Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails 53 comments in 2 discussions

• Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript 52 comments in 3 discussions

Releases #

• q5.js v3.0 has been RELEASED! 21 comments in 2 discussions

• Django Guardian v3 released! 15 comments in 1 discussion

• Wagtail 7.0 released 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Lume 3 was released

Projects #

• node_modules is eating 70GB of my projects folder 110 comments in 1 discussion

• TrailBase 0.11: Open, sub-millisecond, single-executable FireBase alternative built with Rust, SQLite & V8 109 comments in 4 discussions

• PairDrop: peer-to-peer file sharing in your browser 77 comments in 2 discussions

• I built a modern web framework for C 76 comments in 2 discussions

• Looking for your feedback on micro alternative SwapJS? (for page navigation and DOM update with fragments) 57 comments in 2 discussions

• neverever: No bullshit Option<T> and Result<T, E> types for TypeScript 43 comments in 1 discussion

• I built Cloud Snitch: An open source map visualization and firewall for AWS activity, inspired by Little Snitch 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Looking to learn javascript , have some python experience but need some guidance on where to start. Not sure what to google for this specific project I'm trying to learn with! 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Javascript in BASH 7 comments in 1 discussion

• sophia: a microframework for building express apps 4 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• Figma Sites is worse than you might have thought 20 comments in 1 discussion

• New Laravel starter kit (with built-in billing) 19 comments in 1 discussion

• Using NextJS with a Laravel API 6 comments in 1 discussion

• Better queue testing with Laravel 4 comments in 1 discussion

• ReactFlow Nodes Not Rendering 3 comments in 1 discussion

• RailsConf 2008: Keynote by Joel Spolsky 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Conditional Fluent & Improved AsCollection Mapping in Laravel 12.10 2 comments in 1 discussion