urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back - The new frameworks will continue until morale improves. javascript, frameworks 🔥
Why we ditched Next.js and never looked back - Especially performance became much better again. nextjs
Using & Styling the Details Element - You can find the details element all over the web these days. We were excited about it when it first dropped and toyed with using it as a menu back in 2019 (but probably don’t) among many other experiments. css 🔥
How to start a React Project [2025] - Every year, I want to give you a brief overview of how to start a new React project. react, vite, astro, nextjs
Announcing TanStack Form v1 - We're excited to announce the first stable version of TanStack Form is live and ready for usage in production! tanstack, forms
Lynx: Unlock Native for More - Today, we're excited to introduce Lynx, a family of technologies empowering developers to use their existing web skills to create truly native UIs for both mobile and web from a single codebase. native-uis
Functions in CSS?! - You (kinda) can use functions now! css 🔥
JavaScript - Report about how JavaScript is used in the web javascript 🔥
Is Biome ready to replace Prettier & ESLint? - Biome is a new JavaScript and TypeScript language server that aims to replace Prettier and ESLint. biome, prettier, eslint
Read it! Read it! Read it!
50 things we’ve learned about building successful products - The lessons we've learned at PostHog engineering 🔥
Git in Zed, natively - Support for native Git staging, committing, pushing, and pulling in Zed is coming. zed, git 🔥
Code and Tools
Stricli - Build complex CLIs with type safety and no dependencies cli, typescript
agents.json - Translate OpenAPI into LLM Tools ai, agents
Ollama Function Caller - A command-line Ollama client for scripting. ai, ollama
ReScript - ReScript is a robustly typed language that compiles to efficient and human-readable JavaScript. types, javascript
Electron App - An Electron app boilerplate with React v19, TypeScript v5, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, Electron Vite, Biome, GitHub Action releases and more. electron, boilerplate
React Timer Hooks - React timer hook is a custom react hook, built to handle timer, stopwatch, and time logic/state in your react component. react, hooks
React hCaptcha Component Library - hCaptcha Component Library for ReactJS and Preact captcha, react
Kibo UI - Kibo UI is a custom registry of composable, accessible and open source components designed for use with shadcn/ui. a11y, ui
Find any sound you like - In a collaborative collection of > 650k free sounds sounds, audio
Halftone Effect Generator - Easily Apply Halftones Any Photo/Video images 🔥
Revolt - Revolt is the chat app that’s truly built with you in mind. chat
Cropper.js - JavaScript image cropper. image, cropping
End of Life Date - End of Life Date is a website that provides information about the end of life dates for various software products. software, eol 🔥
Deepkit - High-quality TypeScript libraries and next-gen backend framework. Leverage TypeScript to the fullest, in completely new ways. typescript, types
All about Design
User-Interface Elements: Glossary - Use this glossary to quickly clarify definitions for key graphical user-interface elements and controls. ui, glossary
Truth, Lies and Progress Bars - Improve your progress bars! ux, progress-bars
Why most products today are meh - Lack of differentiation and over-optimization are running rampant. Here’s what designers can do about it. ui 🔥
Fun
Linears - A collection of websites inspired by Linear gallery
Tutorials
Using AI in the Browser for Typo Rewriting - Play around with Chrome's built-in AI capabilities. ai, chrome
CLI Chatbot with LangChain and OpenAI in Node.js - Want to build a chatbot in your Node.js terminal using JavaScript? We will walk through the most basic scenario when using LangChain and OpenAI. In this guide, we'll walk through creating a simple CLI chatbot using Node.js. You'll learn how to interact with OpenAI's language model and process user input in a terminal-based interface. ai, langchain, openai
CSS Kaleidoscopes - Gradients are so fun, so complex, so powerful. I just can't get enough of messing with them. css 🔥
A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1) - So great to see what you can do without any JavaScript. css
Videos
Fix Your Slow React App With React-Scan - Find an fix your slow React, NextJS, Remix or TanStack app with React-Scan. react-scan
Published on 2025-03-10, last updated on 2025-09-14 by Adam
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Adam Urban is fullstack engineer, loves serverless and generative art, and is building side projects like weeklyfoo.com, flethy.com and diypunks.xyz in his free time.
