#web-dev

Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.

Standard, agreed-upon paths under /.well-known/.

Uses

Squoosh is the ultimate image optimizer that allows you to compress and compare images with different codecs in your browser.

Contribute to chenglou/pretext development by creating an account on GitHub.

An explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Voiden.md is an offline-first, Git-native API workspace that unifies specs, docs, tests, and mocks using programmable Markdown blocks. Build APIs the way you actually work.

When we talk about "the web platform", we often treat it as a unified, standards-based system: browsers implement features from the same specifications, even if…

Proxyman is a native, high-performance macOS app, which enables developers to capture, inspect, and manipulate HTTP/HTTPS requests/responses with ease. Support iOS and Android Simulator and Physical Device.

Learn the unique benefits and pitfalls of each real-time tech. Make informed decisions on WebSockets, SSE, Polling, WebRTC, and WebTransport.

Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention.

Features and availability in browsers by date range

Timeline of web features and browser support

Read how to accurately detect Safari and iOS versions using WebKit feature checks, behavioral tests, and selective UA hints to gate features safely and avoid breaking UX.

All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you're trying to center a <div> and you're on a tight deadline. A lot of accessibility advocates lead with the moral argument: for example, that…

Web Push notifications are a powerful and important part of the web platform.

An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.

We advocate and build for Rails startups, and we know this tech gives teams a productivity and competitive edge. But we also know what startups struggle with the most: frontend. Let's share our silver toolkit for dealing with it!

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.

An unofficial guide to the HTML button element

🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now! - svenstaro/miniserve

HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. In fact, not many people even know much about them. Is this because of some flaw in their design? Let’s explore.

The ultimate favicon generator. Design your icons platform per platform and make them look great everywhere. Including in Google results pages.

getlocalcert helps you manage HTTPS on private, local, and internal networks with free subdomains

Make hand-drawn style wireframes quickly and easily.

The modern API client that lives in your terminal. - darrenburns/posting

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Modern web applications in pure Python

A REST, GraphQL, and gRPC client available on all desktop platforms

This is how I remember the crazy journey that web development has gone through in the past few years. Or rather this is *my* journey being a web developer. So I will omit events. I may mess up the timeline. This whole article may not be of any use to you. But for me, putting all the history I know into writing helped me appreciate how much things stay the same no matter how much they change.

Naming custom elements, naming attributes, the single responsibility principle, and communicating across components.

custom local domain aliases for local dev servers. Contribute to peterldowns/localias development by creating an account on GitHub.

see also ngrok nip.io lvh.me