Hacker News with Generative AI: Front-End Development

CSSWind: Bloat-Free Component Styling (xeiaso.net)
What you need when even HTMX is too much.
Grid by Example (gridbyexample.com)
This site is a collection of examples, video and other information to help you learn CSS Grid Layout. Developed and maintained by Rachel Andrew.
New Front-End Features for Designers in 2025 (smashingmagazine.com)
Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days.
Show HN: 21st.dev - NPM for Design Engineers Based on Shadcn CLI (21st.dev)
Ship polished UIs faster with React Tailwind components inspired by shadcn/ui. Built by design engineers, for design engineers. One command to install.
Is Front-End Too Complicated? (medium.com)
If you’ve spent any time in front-end development lately, you’ve probably asked yourself, “Why is this so complicated?”
Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering (mizu.sh)
Supercharge your HTML!
How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect (exotext.com)
I had a "woah" moment once when one programmer got genuinely baffled about the fact that a website somehow "erases" the history of requests from the Network tab of Chrome DevTools. He was wondering what magic method was used to hide the communication. He hadn't realized the app was not a single-page JS application (SPA), and he actually wasn't aware there is another way to make web apps.
Htmx 2.0.4 Released (github.com/bigskysoftware)
The End of Front-End Development (joshwcomeau.com)
Over the past few months, I've spoken with lots of early-career devs who are getting more and more anxious about AI. They've seen the increasingly-impressive demos from tools like GPT-4, and they worry that by the time they're fluent in HTML/CSS/JS, there won't be any jobs left for them.
The End of Front-End Development (joshwcomeau.com)
Over the past few months, I've spoken with lots of early-career devs who are getting more and more anxious about AI.
How React, Vue, and Angular Work – Core Principles in One File (github.com)
Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Panic at the SPA (hai.haus)
Can’t we just get a good wheel?
React Folder Structure in 5 Steps (robinwieruch.de)
Organizing large React applications into folders and files is a topic that often sparks strong opinions.
Show HN: Brisa Framework – Unifying server and client using the Web Platform (brisa.build)
Build web applications with speed and simplicity
Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement (gov.uk)
For users to experience a quality service it must be built in a robust way.
Hire HTML and CSS People (robinrendle.com)
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”
Show HN: WebJSX – A tiny Web Components and JSX library (webjsx.org)
A minimal library for building web applications with Web Components and JSX.
Show HN: World's most performant web table (multicore, DOM-based) (github.com/gabrielpetersson)
A multithreaded web table, capable of running 120fps while sorting/filtering/scrolling simultaneously
Facet: WebComponents Defined in HTML (github.com/kgscialdone)
Server-First Web Components with DSD, Htmx, and Islands (tympanus.net)
Alpine: A Lightweight JavaScript Framework for Minimalist Front End Development (github.com/alpinejs)
Show HN: Uisual – Free Tailwind CSS Components and Templates (No JavaScript) (uisual.com)
CSS Grid Areas (ishadeed.com)
HMPL – template language for displaying UI from server to client (github.com/hmpl-lang)
Show HN: Simple HTML and TailwindCSS element/section generator (staticninja.site)
Show HN: Orbit – A CSS radial UI composer framework (zumerlab.github.io)
Ask HN: Front-end bait and switch? (ycombinator.com)
Trunk: Build, bundle and ship your Rust WASM application to the web (trunkrs.dev)
Show HN: A JavaScript UI library for imperative JSX (npmjs.com)
An Introduction to CSS-Doodle (yuanchuan.github.io)