July 2025 – Hot New Web Dev

Welcome to Hot Web Dev July 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. In this edition, we cover scammers targeting the online gambling market. Learning resources cover mobile development and TypeScript. The tool of the month is an open-source tool that will speed up web development.

Scammers Target Online Gambling Market

Fraudsters are using social media platforms to promote over 1,200 scam gaming websites. These sites lure players with free credits and request cryptocurrency deposits, which are never returned. The scam is facilitated by a network of compromised accounts and a custom chatbot API.

Scam gambling sites use decoy wallets, preventing withdrawals and blocking users after deposits. These sites also block new registrations from the same device within 10 minutes.

A single entity operates over 1,200 cryptocurrency scamming sites, using a central pool of agents for support and a network-wide policy against sharing wallet addresses. These websites, though less elaborate than “pig butchering” schemes, enable operators to extract payments from many people with less risk and investment.

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Krebs On Security

Learning Resources

If you’re building for mobile, this 30-hour React Native video tutorial might be helpful. It covers building six projects, including a Todo app, an expenses app, and social media clones.

Developers are leaning towards TypeScript to build projects instead of vanilla JavaScript. TypeScript is a language extension for JavaScript that helps developers declare types for values. This makes it easier to spot bugs during development. It works with existing JavaScript code, so any valid JavaScript code is also valid TypeScript code. This makes it easier to add it to existing projects and gradually move to TypeScript. TypeScript also has features like type inference, which can automatically figure out the type of a variable based on how it’s used, meaning that you don’t have to write out the type every time. The code is transpiled into JavaScript before being run in browsers or other JavaScript environments.

If you want to learn more, this 4-hour YouTube course by WebDevSimplified covers everything from Types to interfaces.

Coding & Web Design Resources

Developers today have a vast quantity of resources available at their disposal. This will resonate with anyone who was learning web development before 2015 and is something that is forgotten about in the modern day. Fewer tools for building websites were available unless you purchased Macromedia (Adobe) Dreamweaver. Budget tools were available, but they all came with caveats that prevented you from using the good features. Ferdie Tan details how free online resources are changing the game for web developers in 2025.

Matteo Collina, a Node.js developer, highlighted the concerning trend of developers using outdated versions of Node.js, particularly Node 12, despite the availability of newer, more secure versions like Node 20. He emphasised the importance of updating Node.js for security reasons, noting that the Node project works hard to provide regular security releases. Collina also discussed several new features in Node.js, including require() ESM, TypeScript support, and improvements in V8 performance.

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The New Stack

WOW Tool Of The Month

Responsively is a must-have tool for web developers. It offers a comprehensive toolset for creating pixel-perfect, responsive websites. It includes real-time mirrored interactions across devices, quick context switching, and a large collection of device profiles.
The Unified Inspector allows you to inspect elements across all devices at once. It also offers one-click screenshots of all devices, individual devices, and the viewport. Responsively is open source and is sponsored by GitHub and Syncfusion.

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