Hacker News with Generative AI: Frontend Development

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

141 points by aabhay 4 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 14 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 15 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 45 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 48 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 49 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 60 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 69 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 76 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 80 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 86 days ago | 4 comments

VanillaJSX.com (vanillajsx.com)