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<\/p>\nIf you have been following the monthly Hot Web Dev magazine, you will find at the end of each edition, I recommend a tool of the month. Over the years, the tools used have varied from open-source apps and JavaScript UI frameworks to server tools, AI, CSS, desktop, and web applications. Here’s a list of the tools from 2025, along with updates on new features and development.<\/p>\n\n
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Photo by Visual Tag Mx:<\/a><\/p>\n SpicyCamCast<\/a> may sound raunchy, but inevitably it is an open-source JS module that allows you to integrate camera and screencasts into your project. It’s built using modern JavaScript, leveraging ES6 classes, private fields, async\/await and promises.<\/p>\n Its features include detecting and selecting video devices, starting, and stopping camera and screencast streams, capturing photos in JPEG, PNG or WebP format and mirroring video streams. As of 2026 the project continues there hasn't been anymore development since January 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brisa<\/a> is a web platform framework that enables developers to build fast, simple web applications. It offers server-side rendering, web component support, and browser event handling on the server. Brisa is fully integrated into Tauri to provide multi-platform capabilities, allowing developers to easily convert web applications to native Android, iOS, and desktop applications. The latest version was released in October 2025 and is still under active development.<\/p>\n PHP and Laravel have been featured several times over the past year. Laravel Herd<\/a> is a PHP development environment. It can be used for other PHP...<\/p>","summary":"Discover 12 standout dev tools from 2025 \u2013 including Bruno, GSAP, Kelp, Responsively, Laravel Herd, and more \u2013 with 2026 updates on features, performance, and adoption for modern web developers.","tags":["PHP","Windows","Apps","Resources","Tools","CSS"]},{"title":"Web Bloat, Dev Ops & Developer Tools - March 2026","date_published":"2026-04-04T08:31:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2026\/march-2026-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2026\/march-2026-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev March 2026, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This month, we discuss websites prioritising revenue ahead of readability and how it's spoiling the web. We’ve got a DevOps career path to die for, and the tool of the month is a development delight.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents:<\/p>\n Ever clicked on a website, and you are immediately attacked by multiple pop-ups, cookie banners, and advertising that loads and shares your data with a minimum of 250 partners. If you look at the network console in developer tools, you can see just how much is loaded. News websites are typically heavily laden with ads and trackers. This causes slow loading times, impacts the user experience and browser performance, prompting the use of ad blockers.<\/p>\n The programmatic auction process relies on frequent behavioural surveillance. This involves background monitoring and data collection of users. This paradox highlights the disconnect between mandatory cookie banners and ongoing data mining practices. Publishers, desperate for revenue, prioritise short-term gains over long-term reader retention. This leads to user-hostile design choices, driven by metrics such as viewability and time-on-page, which increase ad revenue at the expense of user experience.<\/p>\n Users face a frustrating experience when clicking news links with intrusive GDPR banners, newsletter modals, and notification prompts, hindering access to the desired content.<\/p>\n Google...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in March 2026. We discuss websites prioritising revenue ahead of readability and how it's spoiling the web. We\u2019ve got a DevOps career path to die for, and the tool of the month is a development delight.","tags":["Resources","Tools","News","Learning","Magazine","Career"]},{"title":"Web Dev Tools & Resources \u2013 Feb 2026","date_published":"2026-03-01T08:31:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2026\/february-2026-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2026\/february-2026-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev February 2026, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This month, we’re introducing an alternative to Electron and Tauri for app packaging. We’re also bringing back a 90s favourite in the scripting world – the tool of the month is an open-source app for managing time.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents:<\/p>\n Electrobun<\/a> is a solution for building, updating, and shipping cross-platform desktop applications written in Typescript. It uses bun<\/strong> and zig<\/strong> for execution and bundling.<\/p>\n Traditional desktop app frameworks strike a balance between developer experience and app performance. However, Electron has a large bundle size, and Tauri requires Rust knowledge. Native development is more challenging to set up and often platform-independent. For instance, Swift can only be used to build macOS apps.<\/p>\n Electrobun is lightweight. The ultra-small bundles are approximately 14MB compressed, which is over 90% smaller than Electron. They also offer lightning-fast startup times, with a cold start under 50ms compared to 2-5s for Electron. Furthermore, they provide small updates via 14KB patches using custom binary diffs, which are significantly smaller than the 100MB+ updates required by Electron.<\/p>\n The bundles are pure TypeScript, allowing you to write TypeScript<\/a> for both the main process and the UI. They also support web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and you can use any frontend framework. For maximum native performance, they use Zig bindings with the...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in February 2026. From the introduction of Electrobun to learning resources and coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["Resources","Tools","Learning","JavaScript","Magazine"]},{"title":"jQuery 4, CSS Layout & Developer Tools \u2013 Jan 2026","date_published":"2026-01-31T08:31:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2026\/january-2026-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2026\/january-2026-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Happy New Year and welcome to Hot Web Dev January 2026, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This month features a new release in a 20-year-old JavaScript library. The tool of the month is a magical tool that connects all of your devices without having to do complex setups.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n JQuery is far from dead. To mark its 20th anniversary, version 4.0 has been released.\nThe first major release in nearly a decade brings improvements and modernisations. It includes breaking changes, such as trimming legacy code and removing deprecated APIs, so users should review the details before upgrading.<\/p>\n jQuery drops support for IE 10 and older, Edge Legacy, older iOS, Firefox versions, and Android Browser. Plans to remove support for IE 11 will be implemented in jQuery 5.0. jQuery 4.0 aligns the order of focus and blur events with the W3C spec, breaking from its previous consistent order.<\/p>\n Source<\/strong><\/p>\n jQuery Blog<\/a><\/p>\n Bash (short for Bourne Again SHell<\/strong>) is the default shell on most Linux systems. A Bash script is just a text file with commands you’d normally type into the terminal, saved and run as a program. Learn more about bash with this introduction to bash scripting<\/a>.<\/p>\n CSS<\/a> has become more complex over the past decade. This is partly due to the rise of frameworks like Bulma and...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in January 2026. From the release of jQuery 4 to learning resources and coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["Resources","Tools","CSS","Learning","JavaScript","Magazine"]},{"title":"December 2025 - Hot New Web Dev","date_published":"2025-12-31T00:00:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/december-2025-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/december-2025-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev December 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This month features how learning to code has changed since the onset of AI and the effects on the future of the attention span. The tool of the month is a full-stack app to have in your toolbox.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n I’m a big fan of Brad Traversy and have followed his YouTube channel for many years. Recently, he reported why he isn’t making any further coding tutorials. Although very sad from a consumer’s point of view, I understand that it must be heartbreaking to spend days or even weeks planning and creating content to be viewed by a limited number of people.<\/p>\n Sadly, with the increased use of AI in the form of chatbots, such as ChatGPT, and development tools like Cursor, people no longer want to spend hours scouring the web to find a solution to their question or build an app that can be vibe-coded in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n plugin:youtube<\/a><\/p>\n If you manage a website or blog, you’ll have noticed a significant decline in web traffic over the past five years. We’ve allowed AI to scrape everything online and then wonder why no one views the most popular post you have ever had. They don’t need to.<\/p>\n The average attention span dropped to 47 seconds...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in December 2025. From learning resources to coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["Resources","Tools","Learning","Magazine","Security"]},{"title":"November 2025 - Hot New Web Dev","date_published":"2025-11-30T00:00:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/november-2025-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/november-2025-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev November 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This month features the NPM worm, learning programming slowly, JavaScript and dependency update tool for all of your projects.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n In November 2025, a self-replicating npm worm, Shai-Hulud 2.0, backdoored 796 npm packages, targeting developer environments and cloud workloads. Malware immediately conducts credential discovery across multiple sources, including GitHub tokens, cloud credentials, npm tokens, and filesystem scanning for API keys and passwords.<\/p>\n Malware infiltrates systems through a multi-stage loading process, using a modified package.json with a preinstall script pointing to setup_bun.js. This script downloads the Bun runtime and executes the bundled, obfuscated bun_environment.js payload<\/p>\n This creates a dangerous situation. If GitHub deletes the malware’s repositories or revokes compromised tokens, thousands of infected systems could simultaneously destroy user data. The distributed nature of the attack means each infected machine monitors access and deletes user data when a takedown is detected.<\/p>\n NPM packages have been a common target over the past few months. As reported in September’s edition<\/a>, when attackers gained access to a developer’s account, it led to a supply chain attack targeting cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n To improve security, NPM is implementing changes to its token management system to enhance security. New NPM classic tokens can no longer be created, and existing ones were revoked on the...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in November 2025. From the NPM worm to learning resources and coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["Resources","Tools","Learning","JavaScript","Magazine","Security"]},{"title":"October 2025 - Hot New Web Dev","date_published":"2025-10-31T00:00:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/october-2025-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/october-2025-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev October 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This month covers a humorous outlook on vibe coding, along with its benefits and pitfalls. The learning section covers gaming and iOS courses. Coding and web design features navbar inspiration, CSS, JavaScript and React Aria. The tool of the month is an open-source, multi-platform app for keyboard-shy fans who love to talk.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n AI is brilliant. It has saved developers time in mundane repetitive tasks such as rewriting functions to make them more readable or creating a colour palette for your new website. One of my favourite prompts is to explain a subject like I were five years old. It breaks it down into smaller, more readable chunks that make things more understandable.<\/p>\n I recently saw this humorous vibe-coded website<\/a> that sums it up. It demonstrates an awful project structure, leaking passwords, broken links and raises the question of why you would want to learn how to code. If you want a...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in October 2025. From vibe coding to learning resources and coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["Resources","Learning","Magazine","Tools","CSS","JavaScript"]},{"title":"September 2025 - Hot New Web Dev","date_published":"2025-10-06T00:00:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/september-2025-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/september-2025-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev September 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This edition covers NPM supply chain attacks and their potential impact on our apps. Learning resources include a comprehensive full-stack curriculum available for free. Additionally, the tool of the month is a tweaking tool for Windows designed to enhance the user interface.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n NPM is great for development, but what happens when a dependency is affected by malware? This can lead to a chain of events that affects your app by simply running npm update.<\/p>\n On 8 September 2025, a supply chain attack targeted 18 npm packages, including debug and chalk, affecting millions of developers. The attackers impersonated npm support, gaining access to a maintainer’s account and publishing malicious updates containing a crypto-stealer.<\/p>\n The community detected suspicious activity in open-source packages and reported it on GitHub. The original maintainer confirmed the account compromise and worked with npm to revert the changes and secure the account.<\/p>\n Supply chain attacks compromise a single, trusted source in the software development process, such as a package maintainer’s account, to inject malicious code into numerous applications....<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in September 2025. From NPM supply chain attacks to learning resources and coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["JavaScript","Learning","Magazine","Resources","Security","Tools"]},{"title":"August 2025 - Hot New Web Dev","date_published":"2025-09-16T00:00:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/august-2025-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/august-2025-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" Welcome to Hot Web Dev August 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. This edition features the tooling I used for my final honours project, accessibility, Ionic and progressive web apps (PWAs). Learning resources cover API and JavaScript game development. The tool of the month is an old concept with a modern CSS twist.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n As you may notice, this month’s edition is a little late. That is because I have been finishing a dissertation for my degree after five years of study. My project involved creating a custom menu management and ordering app for my workplace. The tools of choice for this project were AdonisJS for the backend API and Ionic and Capacitor to create a PWA and apps for Android and iOS.<\/p>\n I took two technologies I had never used and built the app well enough to test on selected staff and pupils. At times, I wondered if I would ever get the app built, considering I was hospitalised at the end of June and had 8 weeks off to recover from emergency surgery.<\/p>\n I was more comfortable using Ionic, with Vue, and eventually got the hang of the MVC structure that AdonisJS uses.<\/p>\n I initially planned to use Laravel for the backend,...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in August 2025. From learning resources to coding updates, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["CSS","JavaScript","Learning","Magazine","Resources","Tools"]},{"title":"July 2025 - Hot New Web Dev","date_published":"2025-07-31T00:00:00+00:00","id":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/july-2025-hot-new-web-dev","url":"https:\/\/www.worldoweb.co.uk\/2025\/july-2025-hot-new-web-dev","content_html":" 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.<\/p>\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Source<\/strong>\nKrebs On Security<\/a><\/p>\n If you’re building for mobile, this 30-hour React Native <\/a>video tutorial might be helpful. It covers building six projects, including a Todo app, an expenses app, and social media clones.<\/p>\n Developers are leaning towards TypeScript to build projects instead of vanilla JavaScript<\/a>. TypeScript...<\/p>","summary":"Discover the latest web development news in July 2025. From new JavaScript frameworks to security updates and learning resources, stay informed with our comprehensive roundup of the hottest topics in the web development world.","tags":["JavaScript","Learning","Magazine","Resources","Scam","Tools"]}]}
SpicyCamCast ✅<\/h2>\n
Brisa ✅<\/h2>\n
Laravel Herd ✅<\/h2>\n
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How Much Bloat?<\/h2>\n
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Electrobun<\/h2>\n
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jQuery 4 Released<\/h2>\n
Learning Resources<\/h2>\n
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Learning To Code Has Changed<\/h2>\n
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NPM Worm<\/h2>\n
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Can you spot a vibe-coded website?<\/h2>\n
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Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com<\/a>However, vibe-coding is a trend where you write a sequence of instructions and the AI agent follows them to your specifications. For someone who understands web technologies, this can be another time saver. For those who are inexperienced, it can blow up in your face.<\/p>\n\n
NPM Exploit<\/h2>\n
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Photo by RealToughCandy.com on Pexels.com<\/a>The malware targets cryptocurrency wallets by injecting itself into browsers, intercepting web traffic, and rewriting transaction targets. It evades detection by minimising its footprint and remaining silent until a transaction is ready to be signed.<\/p>\n\n
WTF, we are halfway through September<\/h2>\n
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Scammers Target Online Gambling Market<\/h2>\n
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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com<\/a><\/p>\nLearning Resources<\/h2>\n