In contrast to the previous week, this one brings almost too many articles. News about Angular, highlights from Rising Stars 2024, accessibility tools and innovative projects like Threlte 8 and Happy Hues. It also discusses trends for 2025 in JS and CSS, alongside mixed news on AI’s impact on web browsing and the latest developments in WP. Also, you might like the British Seaside Simulator.
https://blog.angular.dev/angular-2025-strategy-9ca333dfc334
Not many go into such details as Dr. Axel Rashmayer, but when he explores something, then he goes line by line.
https://2ality.com/2025/01/tsconfig-json.html
I didn’t expect that, but HTMX is upfront, followed by React, Svelte, Vue and Angular. That’s something! From most popular frameworks, Excalidraw is helpful for quick sketching. Shadcn/ui is very loved, and so is Magic UI. In state management, everything looks very similar to other years’ Zustand, Jotai, and XState. Interesting, but Bootstrap is back in 2024, sitting proudly between TailwindCSS, DaisyUI, and Pico.css.
https://risingstars.js.org/2024/en
Interactive 3D apps
“Six months in the making, Threlte 8 redefines performance, flexibility, and developer experience for 3D web graphics using Svelte. It’s our biggest leap yet, powered by Svelte 5, exciting updates from Three.js, and tons of community input.”
You can create quite impressive scenes in a browser, for example, a spaceship:
https://threlte.xyz/docs/examples/tutorials/animating-a-spaceship#part-i
Here is a bit more info here:
https://bsky.app/profile/threlte.xyz/post/3lgbgw6pask2l
I'm not sure how useful it is for any, but I know how easy it is to slip into those side projects. 🙂
https://daverupert.com/2025/01/like-this-and-like-that-and-like-this-and-uh/
https://shopify.engineering/five-years-of-react-native-at-shopify
https://blog.duvallj.pw/posts/2025-01-10-all-javascript-keyboard-shortcut-libraries-are-broken.html
https://thenewstack.io/5-technical-javascript-trends-you-need-to-know-about-in-2025/
I only mention this lib as I can confirm it is fantastic, flexible and “smart”.
Compress and convert your images in batches. I think this tool compresses everything in a browser without uploading images anywhere.
The post discusses essentials for the accessible web with interesting cases for Modals and focus management.
https://martijnhols.nl/blog/accessibility-essentials-every-front-end-developer-should-know
This is a very sensible post and an easy-to-implement solution to make users happy.
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https://iamvishnu.com/posts/please-dont-force-dark-mode
It is a fantastic project to play with colours and immediately see changes in a browser.
The tool to make CSS easing functions simple
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-box-trim
Some of my favourites. extend(), regions and reading flow (this is a solid accessibility issue), Mixins , trim text from the middle (yes, please!), random() , stateQueries
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/css-wishlist-for-2025/
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont-wrap-figure-in-a-link.html
It looks like a pretty good tool for quickly identifying all correctly marked alt tags, titles, and links.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aria-devtools/dneemiigcbbgbdjlcdjjnianlikimpck
“Tools and resources on how to use web fonts without sacrificing page loading speeds”
https://highperformancewebfonts.com/read/on-the-origins-of-cross
https://nerdy.dev/6-css-snippets-every-front-end-developer-should-know-in-2025
https://daverupert.com/2025/01/color-hue-rotating-gaslight/
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/
Thought-provoking post. I disagree about the browser death, though. Yes, AI gives focused answers to questions, but I like to go to sources for more nuances on the subject.
https://crazystupidtech.com/archive/will-ai-eat-the-browser/
Also, a handy timeline of the events: https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/
This one is purely for fun.
https://vole.wtf/british-seaside/
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