Hacker News with Generative AI: Frontend Development

Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading into 2025 (frontendmasters.com)
Not all of this is like absolutely brand spanking new just-dropped-in-2024 stuff. Some of it is, but generally it’s relatively new stuff that’s all pretty great. I’m pointing things out that I think are really worth knowing about. It’s possible you haven’t kept up too much with HTML developments as it tends to, rightfully, move a lot slower than CSS or JavaScript.

HTML, Web Development, Programming, Frontend Development, New Technologies

5 points by birdculture 6 days ago | 1 comments

XState – State machines for state management in JavaScript (github.com/statelyai)
XState is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It has zero dependencies, and is useful for frontend and backend application logic.

JavaScript, State Management, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Libraries

29 points by sebmellen 27 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library (github.com/e7h4n)
CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library suitable for medium to large single-page applications with complex state management needs.

JavaScript, State Management, Frontend Development, Libraries, Open Source

16 points by acmerfight 30 days ago | 3 comments

Keeping Rails cool: the modern front end toolkit (evilmartians.com)
At Evil Martians, we advocate and build for startups on Rails, and we also know Ruby and Rails give teams a productivity boost and competitive edge. However, we’re also aware of what these startups struggle with the most: frontend. In this post, we share our “silver toolkit” for dealing with it!

Frontend Development, Startups, Web Development, Productivity

8 points by ksec 37 days ago | 1 comments

Please Stop Using Barrel Files (tkdodo.eu)
How to organize your files "correctly" is a hot, controversial topic among frontend developers.

Frontend Development, Software Development, File Organization

11 points by thunderbong 39 days ago | 4 comments

The ‘contain’ CSS property (mozilla.org)
The contain CSS property indicates that an element and its contents are, as much as possible, independent from the rest of the document tree.

CSS, Web Development, Frontend Development

142 points by aabhay 62 days ago | 16 comments

Writing Tiny Desktop Apps in C and GTK3 (2022) (danielc.dev)
So you finish up your C/C++ backend, and open up the Electron.js documentation to figure out how to make a quick frontend...

C, GTK3, Desktop Applications, Frontend Development, Programming

64 points by aard 72 days ago | 26 comments

Show HN: I'm building an AI tool that turns Design Systems into React components (robustlaunch.com)
Build your design system visually, then let AI generate on-brand sections that perfectly match your components and tokens.

Artificial Intelligence, React, Design Systems, Frontend Development

8 points by imadjourney 73 days ago | 0 comments

Building a single-page app with Htmx (jakelazaroff.com)
People talk about htmx as though it’s saving the web from single-page apps. React has mired developers in complexity (so the story goes) and htmx is offering a desperately-needed lifeline.

Web Development, JavaScript, Frontend Development, Single-Page Applications, Htmx

252 points by veggieroll 103 days ago | 143 comments

Show HN: Zero – DX focused non framework to interact with the DOM (github.com/nhh)
Zero is not a framework. Zero is an approach to modern frontend development without the need of a framework. Technically, Zero is a set of types and functions that enables jsx to be transpiled in dom nodes.

Frontend Development, JavaScript, Open Source, Programming, Web Development

33 points by _nhh 106 days ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Zero – A no-framework approach to modern front end development (github.com/nhh)
Zero is not a framework. Zero is an approach to modern frontend development without the need of a framework. Technically, Zero is a set of types and functions that enables jsx to be transpiled in dom nodes.

Frontend Development, JavaScript, Web Development, Open Source

5 points by _nhh 107 days ago | 4 comments

Why I'm Leaving Meta (ycombinator.com)
This is a post I never thought I’d have to write. After years of working as a frontend software engineer at Meta, honing my skills on React and contributing to some of the most widely used frameworks in the world, I’ve made the decision to leave. But this isn’t just another “I’m leaving for a new opportunity” post. The truth runs much deeper, and darker, than that.

Software Engineering, Meta, React, Frontend Development

28 points by _ts0v 118 days ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Fabrix – Instantly Generate UI Frontend from GraphQL (github.com/fabrix-framework)
Fabrix is a framework for building React applications that are backed by GraphQL backend. With fabrix, React components are generated from queries and mutations and automatically rendered with the data fetched from the GraphQL server.

React, GraphQL, Frontend Development, Software, Open Source

12 points by IzumiSy 127 days ago | 4 comments

Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing (inertiajs.com)
Inertia is a new approach to building classic server-driven web apps. We call it the modern monolith.

JavaScript Frameworks, Server-side Rendering, Web Development, Frontend Development

142 points by rob 134 days ago | 44 comments

Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System (govukvue.org)

Vue.js, Frontend Development, Government, Design Systems

223 points by matteason 138 days ago | 58 comments

Show HN: Ayr.js – a reactivity model designed for simplicity (npmjs.com)

JavaScript, Reactivity, Frontend Development, Open Source, Libraries

9 points by phunkmasterp 144 days ago | 4 comments

VanillaJSX.com (vanillajsx.com)