Your curated roundup of the hottest frontend updates, fresh tools, and community highlights from the past two weeks. Stay sharp and explore what’s shaping the web right now! 🚀
🔥 Framework Updates
Vue / Nuxt
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TresJS v5
The Three.js + Vue integration framework releases v5, simplifying 3D development with Vue and offering new composables and performance improvements. -
Nuxt UI v4
Nuxt’s design system and UI library gets a major refresh with new components, theming options, and tighter Nuxt integration.
React
- Hidden React Architecture Patterns
A deep dive into advanced but under-discussed React patterns that senior engineers rely on in production.
🛠️ Developer Tools & Libraries
- Reshaped Goes OSS – Reshaped, a UI design system with accessibility-first components, is now open source.
- Chonkie TypeScript SDK – A new SDK for integrating TypeScript with Chonkie AI services, with developer-friendly tooling.
- Tailwind CSS Animations Plugin – A community-powered Tailwind plugin by Midudev that brings dozens of prebuilt animations (fade, slide, bounce, zoom, etc.) for rapid prototyping.
- Lens.js — Monitoring Tool for Node.js – An open-source, framework-agnostic monitoring tool for Node.js applications. Tracks requests and queries with a modern UI, inspired by Laravel Telescope.
- Slidev – Create presentation slides with Markdown and Vue. Perfect for developer talks and workshops.
- Top 10 Docs Tools in 2025 – A curated list of the best documentation tools for developers and teams this year.
- Layout Land – A visual playground to test CSS layout techniques interactively.
- The “Time” Layout Guide – Ahmad Shadeed explores how to design and code time-related UI layouts with practical CSS strategies.
- React Just Parallax – A lightweight React utility for creating parallax effects with minimal setup.
- MCP UI – A toolset for building and experimenting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces.
- Fliiipbook – A tool for creating flipbook-style documentation and interactive learning resources.
🌐 Web Trends & Insights
- State of JavaScript 2025 Survey Opens
The annual State of JS survey is live! This year highlights a stabilization in frameworks, with Astro challenging Next.js and Vite poised to surpass Webpack. Share your experience and shape the future of JavaScript.
🎤 Conferences & Events
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ViteConf 2025
📅 October 16–17, 2025 — Amsterdam, NL
The official conference for Vite is coming to Amsterdam with talks from core maintainers and ecosystem leaders. A must-follow event for modern frontend devs. -
Vue Fes Japan 2025
📅 November 9, 2025 — Tokyo, JP
Japan’s biggest Vue conference returns, featuring global speakers and the latest on Vue, Nuxt, and the ecosystem.
🎮 Bonus Demos & Fun
- Doomscrolling: The Game – A satirical web game that turns infinite scrolling into a literal challenge.
- Poke-Holo – A fun interactive site that generates holographic-style Pokémon card effects.
- You Don’t Need Animations – A thought-provoking piece arguing for restraint in UI animations to improve usability.
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