Weekly Web Design & Development News: Collective #637
Everything you need to know in development & design this week, rounded up for you (Week 53, 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:
- Get your stack ready for 2026 with our updated "Top 10" lists for React, Vue, and Vanilla JS
- Square UI adds those trendy Apple-inspired "liquid glass" effects to your elements
- Create a serverless text editor that saves content purely via URL storage
- Remove watermarks locally and for free using the AI-powered Clean PicGo
- See which styling trends defined the year in CSS Wrapped 2025
- Scaffold production-ready TanStack Start apps in seconds with a new boilerplate
- 25 other web dev tools and AI resources
- 3 handy design freebies
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The 2026 Top 10 Series
Get your tech stack ready for the year ahead.
We've started our massive annual audit. We are rewriting and updating our most popular "Top 10" lists to ensure every library recommendation is modern, maintained, and ready for 2026 projects.
Updated this week:
10 Best Lightbox Gallery Plugins In JavaScript & CSS (2026 Update)
10 best JavaScript and CSS-powered lightbox gallery plugins that showcase your images, text, and videos in an elegant & interactive way.
10 Best Toast Notification jQuery/JavaScript Plugins (2026 Update)
10 best toast notification plugins in jQuery and Vanilla JavaScript that help create and display Android-style toasts in your modern web pages or web applications.
10 Best JavaScript Calendar Plugins For Scheduled Events (2026 Update)
The 10 best, carefully selected jQuery and PURE JavaScript calendar plugins.
10 Best Autocomplete Libraries In Vanilla JavaScript (2026 Update)
10 best pure (vanilla) JavaScript autocomplete libraries to enhance the select & input behaviors on the web applications.
10 Best Particles Animation JavaScript Libraries (2026 Update)
10 best JavaScript libraries to create an awesome particles animation (Particle System) on the page using pure JavaScript.
10 Best Custom Scrollbar JavaScript Libraries (2026 Update)
10 best JavaScript and/or pure CSS libraries that can be used to replace and enhance the native scrollbars.
10 Best Photo Galleries In Pure JavaScript & CSS (2026 Update)
10 Best Photo Galleries implement in Vanilla JavaScript and/or pure HTML/CSS/CSS3.
10 Best Range Slider Components For React And React Native (2026 Update)
10 best and open-source range slider components for React and React Native powered applications.
10 Best And Free Data Table Libraries For React Applications (2026 Update)
Top 10 React data table components for 2026. Find the right library for sorting, filtering, and handling large datasets.
10 Best Date & Time Picker Components For React & React Native (2026 Update)
10 most popular date and time picker components for your next React and/or React Native app.
7 Best File Upload Components For Vue.js (2026 Update)
7 Best and free Vue upload components for handling file uploads in your app.
10 Best Vue.js Tree View Components For Your App (2026 Update)
10 best Vue.js tree components that help developers quickly and easily render hierarchical data in a nested tree structure.
JavaScript & CSS
textarea.my - Build a Serverless Text Editor with URL Storage.
form-builder - Drag-and-drop Form Builder with JSON Outtput.
marquee6k - Smooth, Infinite Scrolling Marquees in Vanilla JavaScript.
retro-futuristic-ui-design - Creating web-based retro effects is quite hard, use this for inspiration.
Responsive Glass Sidebar - Responsive Glass Sidebar Using HTML CSS JavaScript.
universal-app-opener - A zero-dependency JavaScript library that converts standard HTTP URLs (YouTube, LinkedIn) into Native Mobile Deep Links (Custom Schemes & Android Intents).
Discover more JavaScript & CSS Libraries →
NextGen JavaScript
Square UI - A lightweight CSS/JS library that adds Apple-inspired Liquid Glass effects to any element..
Cooked-folio - Minimal Portfolio Template with Spotify/GitHub/Discord Integrated.
8starlabs UI - Add Niche UI Components to Next.js & shadcn/ui.
nextjs16_shadcn_template - Minimal Next.js Starter with App Router, React Compiler, and shadcn/ui.
React Native Keyboard Composer - A native keyboard-aware composer library that handles input interactions for chat applications.
Composify - A React library that adds visual editing capabilities to your application.
create-tanstack-boilerplate - Scaffold production-ready TanStack Start apps in seconds.
Discover more Next.js & shadcn/ui resources →
Web Dev Tools & Resources
rendercv - CV/resume generator for academics and engineers, YAML to PDF.
cinecli - CineCLI is a cross-platform command-line movie browser built with Python.
tigma - A terminal-based design tool for creating ASCII diagrams and designs.
unredact - A simple tool for reading in poorly redacted documents and reproducing their origional form.
summarize - Point at any URL or file. Get the gist.
stonks-dashboard - A cyberpunk-style, real-time financial monitor that runs directly in the terminal.
phosphor-cam - Real-time ASCII art camera that transforms your webcam feed into glowing terminal aesthetics.
nozo - Preview links instantly without leaving your current context.
react2scan - Discover and scan vulnerable Next.js instances across your entire infrastructure.
Storage Inspector - A powerful Chrome extension for security researchers to inspect and edit localStorage, sessionStorage, and Cookies.
Graphic Design Freebies
App Icon Template for iOS & Android - A flexible App Icon Figma Template built for iOS and Android.
Analog Clock Font - A glyph for all 720 minutes of an analog clock.
E-commerce Icons - Flat Christmas Illustrations & Icons for Figma.
Discover more Graphic Design Freebies →
Curated AI Tools for Developers and Designers
Conductor - The Project Manager Extension for Gemini CLI.
Auto Claude - Autonomous AI Coding Agent Powered by Claude Code.
WitNote - Free Local-First AI Writing App for Mac and Windows.
Clean PicGo - Free AI Watermark Remover That Runs Locally.
GLM-4.7 - Z.AI’s latest flagship model, featuring upgrades in two key areas: enhanced programming capabilities and more stable multi-step reasoning/execution.
MiniMax M2.1 - A SOTA 10B-activated OSS coding & agent model, scoring 72.5% on SWE-multilingual and 88.6% on our newly open-sourced VIBE-bench, exceeding leading closed-source models like Gemini 3 Pro and Claude 4.5 Sonnet.
Qwen-Image-Layered - A model capable of decomposing an image into multiple RGBA layers.
MiraTTS - A finetune of the excellent Spark-TTS model for enhanced realism and stability performing on par with closed source models.
T5Gemma-TTS - Multilingual TTS model with voice cloning and duration control, based on T5Gemma encoder-decoder LLM.
News & Articles
CSS Wrapped 2025. (Link)
How agentic AI coding tools change software development. (Link)
Frontend Wrapped 2025: The 10 storylines that defined the year. (Link)
JavaScript & CSS Snippets
Responsive Circular List of images with hover effec
See the Pen Responsive Circular List of images with hover effect by Temani Afif (@t_afif) on CodePen.
Scroll-Triggered Image Stack with Gradient Mask Reveal
See the Pen Scroll-Triggered Image Stack with Gradient Mask Reveal by Daniel Muñoz (@daniel-mu-oz) on CodePen.
Liquid Glass edges
See the Pen Liquid Glass edges by Mattia Astorino (@equinusocio) on CodePen.
Morphing Particle Sphere - Interactive 3D Text Animation
See the Pen Morphing Particle Sphere - Interactive 3D Text Animation by Anıl (@ygnanil) on CodePen.
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