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Weekly Web Design & Development News: Collective #627

by jQueryScript,

Everything you need to know in development & design this week, rounded up for you (Week 43, 2025).

You'll find the most essential things right now: Javascript & CSS libraries, useful code snippets, crucial web dev news & resources, curated AI tools, free design assets, and plenty of other good stuff we found!

Highlights:

  • React just dropped its new auto-optimizing Compiler 1.0, no rewrites needed.
  • Build your own AI chat apps with the ChatKit Starter for OpenAI's Agent Builder.
  • ️ Instantly turn any Python function into a web interface with the zero-boilerplate FuncToWeb tool.
  • Discover "Classic CSS," a unique, museum-grade framework for more elegant web design.
  • Snag a huge pack of 170+ free Airbnb-style 3D icons for your next project.
  • Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 4.5 model delivers top-tier coding performance at a fraction of the cost.
  • Prototype and test your code with Cloudflare's new Sandboxes, complete with public URLs.
  • 42 other great resources and tools
  • 2 design freebies and snippets

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JavaScript & CSS

ChatKit Starter - Build AI Chat Apps with OpenAI’s Agent Builder.

Build AI Chat Apps with OpenAI’s Agent Builder

FullstackAgent - Your Next.js full-stack engineer, integrating Claude, Next.js, shadcn/ui, and a PostgreSQL database.

AI-Powered Full-Stack Development with Claude

Mina-Rich-Editor - Block-Based Rich Text Editor with TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui.

Block-Based Rich Text Editor with TailwindCSS and shadcn/ui.

chatgpt-apps-sdk-nextjs-starter - Next.js Starter Template for OpenAI Apps SDK Development.

Next.js Starter Template for OpenAI Apps SDK Development

portfolio - Next.js Portfolio Template with Playdate Design & GitHub OAuth.

Next.js Portfolio Template with Playdate Design & GitHub OAuth

time-picker-svelte - Svelte Time Picker with Keyboard Navigation and Mobile Support.

Svelte Time Picker with Keyboard Navigation and Mobile Support

tagged-combinators - Cleaner Child/Descendant Selectors in Tailwind CSS.

Cleaner Child/Descendant Selectors in Tailwind CSS

Auto-Blog - Automated AI-Powered Blogging Platform.

Automated AI-Powered Blogging Platform

timo-dash - Modern Dashboard Starter Template with Tailwind and Vite.

Modern Dashboard Starter Template with Tailwind and Vite

tiptap-nextjs - Build Rich Text Editors with Tiptap, Next.js, and Supabase.

Build Rich Text Editors with Tiptap, Next.js, and Supabase

wavblock - Performance-First Scroll Animation Library.

Performance-First Scroll Animation Library

avalynx-lightbox - Bootstrap-Based Image Lightbox for Modern Web App.

Bootstrap-Based Image Lightbox for Modern Web App

vanilla-datetime-picker - Zero-Dependency JS Date-Time Input.

vanilla-datetime-picker

masonry-grid - Responsive Masonry Layout Library for Vanilla JS & React.

Responsive Masonry Layout Library for Vanilla JS & React

FediTag - Embed Mastodon Hashtag Feeds on Your Website.

Embed Mastodon Hashtag Feeds on Your Website

Classic CSS - Museum-Grade CSS Framework for Elegant Web Design.

Museum-Grade CSS Framework for Elegant Web Design

expo-progressive-blur - Create iOS Translucent Headers in React Native.

Create iOS Translucent Headers in React Native

react-native-alert-queue - Promise-Based Notifications.

Promise-Based Notifications

react-native-color-thief - Extract Color Palettes from Images in React Native.

Extract Color Palettes from Images in React Native

better-modal - Type-Safe React Modal Manager.

Type-Safe React Modal Manager

react-native-reusables - shadcn/ui-style UI Component Library for React Native.

shadcn/ui-style UI Component Library for React Native

v-uixy - Modern Vue/Nuxt Component Library with TailwindCSS & v-motion.

Modern Vue/Nuxt Component Library with TailwindCSS & v-motion

gta-vice-city-style-openstreetmap - A MapLibre GL JS embed customized to have the game GTA Vice City's map style.

ambient-sound-mixer - Create your perfect atmosphere with this beautiful and intuitive ambient sound mixer.

fluid-message-input - Animated message input component inspired by Telegram.

react-datatable - This template provides a minimal setup to get React working in Vite with HMR and some ESLint rules.

modern-html5-music-player - A Modern, Embeddable HTML5 Music Player.

Discover more JavaScript & CSS Libraries →

Web Dev Tools & Resources

Free Markdown to HTML Converter - Free, privacy-first, AI content friendly Markdown to HTML converter with real-time preview.

PaddleOCR - Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI.

ai-digest - A CLI tool to aggregate your codebase into a single Markdown file for use with Claude Projects or custom ChatGPTs.

jsonriver - A simple, fast streaming JSON parser built on standards.

NeuroHTTP - High-Performance AI-Native Web Server.

binmoji - A C library and command-line tool that encodes any standard Unicode emoji into a single, fixed-size 64-bit integer (uint64_t).

xie - A single HTML notebook, perfect for minimalists.

FlashFuzz - Quickly fuzz URLs and scan for secrets directly in your browser tabs.

FuncToWeb - Transform any Python function into a web interface automatically. Zero boilerplate.

WebMCP - A proposal and code for websites to support client side LLMs.

24-Hour to 12-Hour Converter - Quickly and easily convert 24-hour time to the standard 12-hour AM/PM format.

Graphic Design Freebies

Airbnb-style Icons  - 170+ Free Airbnb-style 3D Icons.

170+ Free Airbnb-style 3D Icons

Scampy Font - A free sans-serif font that injects personality into typography.

A free sans-serif font that injects personality into typography.

Microsoft Emojis - 1100+ Free 2D/3D Microsoft Emojis in Figma.

1100+ Free 2D/3D Microsoft Emojis in Figma

Discover more Graphic Design Freebies →

Curated AI Tools for Developers and Designers

Claude Skills - Packaged instructions that teach Claude your way of working.

Bibfixer - Auto Clean and Standardize Your BibTeX Files with AI.

Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast are now in paid preview in the Gemini API. This updated model offers several improvements, as well as improved outputs when generating video from images.

Claude Haiku 4.5 - Anthropic’s latest small model that delivers Sonnet 4-level coding and agent performance for 1/3 the cost and twice the speed. (View API Pricing)

Qoder AI - Build and code directly in your terminal with the Qoder CLI.

Everywhere - A context-aware AI assistant for your desktop.

nanochat - A full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase.

n8n AI Workflow Builder - Build AI automations & agents using natural language.

MAI-Image-1 - Microsoft’s first image generation model developed entirely in-house, debuting in the top 10 text-to-image models on LMArena.

Discover more Free AI Tools →

News & Articles

React announced React Compiler 1.0, designed to optimizes components and hooks without requiring rewrites. (Link)

Cloudflare Sandboxes: Execute commands, manage files, run services, and expose them via public URLs. (Link)

Vite+: a command-line developer tool you can install from npm, just like Vite itself. (Link)

Improving the trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web (Link)

CSS Grid: A helpful mental model and the power of grid lines (Link)

JavaScript & CSS Snippets

CSS Clock (BC17 Braun x Paul Smith)

See the Pen CSS Clock (BC17 Braun x Paul Smith) by Paul Noble (@paulnoble) on CodePen.

responsive pinned sidebar layout w/ [popover]

See the Pen responsive pinned sidebar layout w/ [popover] by Jhey (@jh3y) on CodePen.

tabs with rounded corners

See the Pen tabs with rounded corners by Ana Tudor (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

NumberFlow Range Slider

See the Pen NumberFlow Range Slider by Simon Goellner (@simeydotme) on CodePen.