A comprehensive look at how new CSS features are replacing JavaScript libraries. Anchor positioning, the Popover API, scroll-driven animations, view transitions, customizable selects, and more. The article estimates around 322 kB of JavaScript that can potentially be replaced by native CSS.
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Steve Schoger shows how he uses Claude Code to design and build UIs, turning natural language prompts into polished interfaces.
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Nick wrote about how native browser features like the dialog element, the Popover API, and anchor positioning could eventually replace much of what we use shadcn and Radix for at Spatie today. A thoughtful look at where the web platform is heading and what it means for our frontend stack.
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– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
Livewire 4 introduces powerful new features that make building Laravel applications even better.
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– gusk.ca - submitted by Gustavo Karkow
Why I made my portfolio feel like a terminal, and how it works
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– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
Learn how to build an AI-powered drawing guessing game. In this little app, users will draw anything they like, and the AI will try to guess what it is.
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In his talk at Wire:Live talk, Filip Ganyicz explores Bond, a new approach that brings the capabilities of modern JavaScript into your Blade views.
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
This article explores some exciting new features that have been added to the language in recent years, because sometimes vanilla is exactly what you need. If you’re looking to cut down on heavy dependencies or simply get up to date, this one’s for you.
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– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Have you ever been on a website and navigated between pages, only to notice that the layout shifts slightly because the scrollbar suddenly appears on longer pages?
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– react.gg
A visual exploration of core React concepts
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If you held an individual Spatie employee at gunpoint (please don't) and forced them to pick a favorite, you'll get a 50/50 split. But when we look at the choice at hand as a team, it becomes easier to determine the right fit.
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Here's everything what a browser does to display the content of an URL.
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– jvns.ca
A nice guide by Julia Evans
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This site offers some good alternatives for modals
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– pascalbaljet.dev - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Vue 3.5 has just dropped this week, and it's packed with some nice features and improvements. I have been digging through the release notes and playing around with the new features, so let me glance over the highlights!
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Learn how to use GitHub Actions to speed up your Deployer deployments by cleverly caching your frontend build assets
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This is an overview of the major techniques used to make web sites and web applications without making use of build tools or frameworks, with just an editor, a browser, and web standards.
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When a single-page application needs to fetch data from a remote source, it needs to do so while remaining responsive and providing feedback to the user during an often slow query. Five patterns help with this
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– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Single Page Apps... without writing any JavaScript? Let’s do it! Learn how to unlock the power of HTMX in your Laravel applications in our newest blog article from @nicodevs.
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In this post, we'll walk through some optimistic UI tricks we apply when using Laravel with Livewire and Alpine to capture the best of both worlds.
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