Weekly JavaScript Roundup: Friday Links 18, February 21, 2025
The latest JavaScript news, tools, and insights for your Friday reading.
This week's JavaScript roundup is packed with exciting updates, insightful articles, and handy tools to boost your development workflow. Let’s dive into the best links from around the web!
📜 Articles & Tutorials
Architectures of modern Front-end applications
Clean Frontend Architecture: Tips to Success
How to Build a Replit Clone with Socket.io, Monaco Editor, and Copilotkit
How to build a CMS with React-Admin
What is CSS Subgrid? A Practical Tutorial
Mastering Docker and Jenkins: Build Robust CI/CD Pipelines Efficiently
How to Create Wavy Boxes Using CSS
Request for developer feedback: customizable select
Event-Driven Architecture for Clean React Component Communication
Typecasting and Viewport Transitions in CSS With tan(atan2())
⚒️ Tools
Feature Rich Svelte UI Components
dtsroll - A tool to generate TypeScript declaration (.d.ts) files.
Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby and Apollo
ReactLens Analytics - A new way to understand your React app.
📚 Libs
polar - An open source Merchant of Record. Sell SaaS and digital products in minutes. Alternative to Stripe.
impact - Yet another state management library for React.
astro-font - astro-font will automatically optimize your Custom Fonts, Local Fonts, Fonts over any CDN and Google fonts for performance.
png2embeddedjson - Convert PNG images to embedded JSON with Base64-encoded RGB565 data for microcontrollers and runtimes like the RP2040 and Kaluma.
tiny-static-map - A tiny library to generate static maps using OpenStreetMap.
BritCSS - Fixes CSS to use non-bastardised spellings.
human-regex - Human-friendly regular expression builder with English-like syntax.
⌚ Releases
Excalibur v0.30.0 Release - Excalibur is an open-source HTML5 game engine.
BenchJS - A new benchmarking tool for JavaScript.
pnpm 10.3 released - run pnpm self-update to update.
Pixijs v8.8.0 - The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
📺 Videos
Protect Server Actions In Next.js The Right Way
Javascript's New Pipeline Operator Is Awesome!
Upload Video In React & Next.js Is Easy Now (+ Progress Bar, Custom Button, ImageKit)
I was bad at Data Structures and Algorithms. Then I did this.
Full NGINX Tutorial - Demo Project with Node.js, Docker
PERN Stack Course: Build a Product Store with Postgres & React
AWS Full Course - Solutions Architect [9 Hours] | AWS Certified Solutions Architect [2025]
That’s it for this week’s roundup! Have a favorite link or resource to share? Drop it in the comments. See you next Friday with more JavaScript goodness! 🚀