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Issue 750 - Does the frontend still need build tools?

Hyperblam Docs Home

https://hyperblam.how/

🎵 HYPERBLAM: Make Music with HTML — A declarative implementation of the Web Audio API for creating things like drum machines (example), instruments and effects boards without writing any JavaScript. You can try it in the sandbox here and create some neat beats of your own.

about 1 month ago

TREX: AI Code Review That Runs Your Code | Greptile

https://www.greptile.com/trex

Get Screenshots of Your Frontend in Each PR — Greptile now runs your code to find bugs. Trex runs your PR branch in a sandbox, uses browser agents to click through your UI, and attaches screenshots and videos as evidence of the issue directly in the PR.

#ai code review #runtime testing #sandbox testing #end-to-end testing #pr testing #bug detection

about 1 month ago

In defense of polyfills • Lea Verou

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/polyfills/

In Defense of Polyfills — Prolific spec editor Anne van Kesteren expressed the opinion that "polyfilling is harmful", but Lea begs to differ. She explores the case for them in modern web development, arguing why they still matter despite evolving browser support.

#blog #polyfills #web standards #web platform

about 1 month ago

Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules/

Visual Design Rules You Can Safely Follow Every Time — A classic worth re-reading where an interface designer runs through a bunch of helpful design pointers, touching upon contrast, alignment, spacing, and more.

about 1 month ago

A bug which only affected left-handed users

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/a-bug-which-only-affected-left-handed-users/

A Bug Which Only Affected Left-Handed Users — One of those UX quirks you might not encounter until a design gets used by the public.

about 1 month ago

Do we still need build tools?

https://olliewilliams.xyz/blog/no-build/

Do We Still Need Build Tools for Frontend Dev? — A feature-by-feature audit of what build tools still do for us in 2026. Vendor prefixing and ES5 transpiling are becoming obsolete and Sass features are largely absorbed into CSS, but bundling and minification remain relevant. An honest take on where 'no-build' falls apart.

about 1 month ago

Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer – Master.dev Blog

https://master.dev/blog/thinking-horizontally-in-css-layer/

Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer — Chris shares a pattern used at CodePen: put each component's design tokens in an @layer so they're weak and trivially overridable, and keep the scoped styles that consume them unlayered and strong, with no more specificity fights.

about 1 month ago

Building a Magical 3D Button with HTML and CSS • Josh W. Comeau

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/3d-button/

Building a 'Magical' 3D Button — Many actions we take on the web start with a button click, yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. This recently updated tutorial looks at building an animated 3D button that 'sparks joy' instead.

about 1 month ago

The Never Ending Story: Building a Seamless Infinite Scroll Experience with GSAP & Lenis | Codrops

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/05/28/the-never-ending-story-building-a-seamless-infinite-scroll-experience-with-gsap-lenis/

Building a Seamless Infinite Scroll Experience with GSAP & Lenis — A neat parallax depth effect and snap-based control give this approach a polished feel. It uses GSAP's ScrollTrigger and the Lenis smooth-scroll library. Demo here.

#infinite scroll tutorial #lenis infinite scroll #lenis gsap integration #smooth scrolling website #gsap parallax effect #scroll snapping tutorial

about 1 month ago

Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/

Precursor: Detecting Agentic Behavior with Continuous Client-Side Signals — A new client-side verification system from Cloudflare that claims to distinguish human visitors from agentic or automated traffic by monitoring behavior. It's an optional complement to Turnstile.

about 1 month ago

https://try.expo.dev/fef-builder

https://try.expo.dev/fef-builder

It’s a Hell of a Time to Be a Builder — You spent years learning to make good decisions under ambiguity. That skill just became the whole job.

about 1 month ago

Color.js: Let’s get serious about color • Color.js

https://colorjs.io/

🎨 Color.js 0.7: 'Let’s Get Serious About Color' — A fantastic library for working with colors in the browser, following the latest specs. v0.7 is a big update including support for numerous new color spaces, a new gamut mapping method, and a smarter display() fallback for colors not natively supported by a browser.

about 1 month ago

UX Components

https://www.ux-components.com/

UX Components: A Practical Reference for UI Components Across Design Systems — For example, search for something like "accordion" and this reference will offer an encyclopedia-like description of that particular UI element, how it's used, suggested icons, and so on.

about 1 month ago

Rombo | Animation library for Tailwind CSS Library

https://rombo.co/tailwind/

tailwindcss-motion: An Animation Library for Tailwind Projects — Similar to other drop-in CSS libraries, this includes 20+ unique animations that you can try out and customize on the page, and there's even a custom animation builder too.

#web #animations #design #development

about 1 month ago

A-Frame – Make WebVR

https://aframe.io/

A-Frame 1.8: A Framework for Building WebXR Experiences — A long-standing framework for building virtual reality experiences that work on mobile, desktop, and headsets with WebXR-capable browsers.

#webvr #webvr framework #webvr demos #webvr sites #vr javascript #vr framework

about 1 month ago

Try Tiger Cloud Free: $1,000 Credit | Tiger Data

https://www.tigerdata.com/go/trial

Fast Dashboards Start with Fast Queries — When dashboards outgrow vanilla Postgres, most teams add a second database. Pipelines, stale data. TimescaleDB extends Postgres so analytics stays fast on live data. Hypertables, 95% compression, continuous aggregates. Start with a $1000 credit.

4 months ago