Frontrunners 2025
who it's for
web developers, frontend developers, UI/UX designers, interaction designers, JavaScript developers, mapping and geospatial engineers
topics
Web Components with Lit; CSS container queries; usage of :has selector; CSS custom properties animation; SpeechRecognition API usage; Web Speech Synthesis API; Server-Sent Events streaming JSON; Leaflet and MapLibre GL JS; GeoJSON performance and vector tiles; Entity Component System in TypeScript; p5.js creative coding sketches
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| "Flying High with JavaScript and AI" | Steve Drucker | 29m |
A public-facing instant pricing tool for private-jet charters is live in near-production form, built with Vue.js, Node.js, Speech Recognition, Server-Sent… | ||
| "Code As A Canvas: Exploring Creative Coding With JavaScript" | Shri Khalpada | 25m |
Demo suite builds 30 incremental p5 sketches that move from a static circle to animation, interaction and data-driven visuals using EPA cherry blossom data… | ||
| "Building Motion for the Web: Practical Strategies for Designers and Developers" | Nathan Long | 27m |
Classifies web motion into four zones — functional, systematic, setpiece, narrative — and five complexity tiers (native → frameworks → specialist like ThreeJS… | ||
| "Bringing Voice First Experiences to the Web" | Zach Krall | 19m |
Demonstrates on‑device speech recognition via the browser SpeechRecognition API with phrase events and confidence scores, uses the Chrome Canary prompt API to… | ||
| "Fresh Hot CSS Features!" | Alex Riviere | 33m |
Recent work adds 530 CSS features in six years and 250 in two, driven by browser interop efforts; expect concrete changes not just buzz. Live details: custom… | ||
| "A Developer's Guide to Open Source Web Mapping Libraries" | Courtney Yatteau | 32m |
Demos show Leaflet and MapLibre GL JS plus Esri Leaflet and ArcGIS REST JS, with a working audience map app built and used live. GeoJSON loads 119 bike… | ||
| "ECS and Engine-less GameDev in TypeScript" | Tony Bradley | 25m |
Concrete workflow and results: TypeScript code uses PixieJS rendering + tiled CSV maps to load sprite sheets and place tiles on a 64×64 grid, turning a CSV… | ||
| "Future-proof your Web Apps with Web Components and Lit" | Kito Mann | 32m |
Explains that web components are browser standards (custom elements, shadow DOM, templates), shows code that registers a custom element and a Lit rewrite, and… | ||
| "Stop using JavaScript for that: moving features from JS to CSS and HTML" | Kilian Valkhof | 31m |
Claims that many UI patterns no longer need JavaScript and demonstrates concrete replacements and browser support. Examples: toggles built from a checkbox… | ||
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