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.
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.
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.
If 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 2024, along with updates on new features and development (or lack of).
Welcome to Hot Web Dev January 2025, featuring the latest technology and web development news. This month, we look at the new release of the Tailwind CSS and its exciting new features and improvements. The tool of the month is a new open-source JS module that can add effortless camera and screencast integration into your project.
The JavaScript guessing game tutorial is a simple beginner’s project. It features modern JavaScript syntax and runs without a Framework. In part one of the game the foundation is built. The second part adds suspense by only giving the user five attempts to guess. In this third part, we have added the ability for the user to set the level and change part way through if you have any attempts left.
If you have been following the monthly Hot Web Dev magazine you will find the latest recommended development tool in each edition. The tools over the years vary from Open Source, JavaScript UI frameworks, server tools, AI, CSS, desktop and web apps. Here is the list of the tools chosen for every month during 2023 with updates on new features.
Welcome to Building an Awesome Daisy UI WordPress Theme – Part 4. Daisy UI is an impressive selection of Tailwind components to build your next WordPress classic theme. You can have your custom theme up and running within a few weeks. In the first part of the series, we set up the environment to build an awesome Daisy UI WordPress theme and added a basic layout, footer, and navigation in the second part. The third part made it more mobile-friendly, tidied the search form and added a sidebar. The fourth and final part tidies the post meta and adds single post navigation, comments and page navigation.
In 2023 I revamped my WordPress theme to include Daisy UI. In this article, I will show you how to change the default styles of the popular WordPress Page Navi plugin to use the styles created by Daisy UI without editing the plugin.
Daisy UI is an awesome selection of Tailwind components for your next WordPress classic theme. You can have your custom theme up and running within a few weeks. In the first part of the series, we set up the environment to build an awesome Daisy UI WordPress theme and added a basic layout, footer, and navigation in the second part. This part features jazzing up the search form in the navigation, making it a little more mobile-friendly and adding a sidebar and widgets.