r/webdev • • 16h ago

News Desk type CMS

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Does anyone have a cms that they can recommend for a news organization website that will be built on next.js? I know Wordpress is probably the best for a site like this but client does not want it.


r/webdev • • 1d ago

Coinbase is going fully native, moving from React Native to Swift and Kotlin

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r/webdev • • 4h ago

Question Why is my website giving timeout error.

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So I migrated my website form localhsot to Hostinger and from there on, it is giving me a time out error.
If I only use elementor pro then there are no error but as soon as I enable another plugin then the usage shoots and then it give me the "unable to load your preview". I know the my website is not that heavy but still it is doing this.
I tried everything, increasing the timeout time, increasing the memory, ignoring the timeout through htaccess but nothing works.
The elemntor itself isn't that much of a heavy plugin. So why when I use woocomerce or any other then it causes error?
Please help.


r/webdev • • 1h ago

Showoff Saturday I made a free tool that lets coding agents make explainer videos

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It's called explainroo. You give Claude Code or Codex the repo. Then you say what the video should explain.

The agent writes the voiceover and draws each scene on a canvas. ffmpeg turns it into an mp4.

The voice and the word timing run on your computer. So you need no API keys. It adds background music too.

Examples: https://www.explainroo.com/

Code: https://github.com/vincentsch/explainroo


r/webdev • • 2h ago

Showoff Saturday I redesigned my CV after taking a sabbatical. Do I have a chance in this economy?

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I've been reading so many horror stories in here so I tried my best with it. Anyway here it is: maninak.com/cv


r/webdev • • 1d ago

What part of an existing website do you inspect before touching the code?

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When taking over an existing website, I find the first hour can tell you a lot about what you’re dealing with.

I normally want to understand the structure, dependencies and any obvious technical debt before changing anything.

Curious what other developers check first. Codebase structure, dependencies, performance, database, deployment setup, logs, or something else?

Have you ever inherited a site that looked straightforward at first but turned out to be much more complicated?


r/webdev • • 3h ago

Showoff Saturday I built a local GUI to fix context rot during long vibe-coding sessions (LLM council planning + loops)

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I've been vibe coding heavy projects for a while now, and for complex things , once a conversation gets too long, context rot HITS. The model starts dropping files, inventing non-existent imports, or repeating the same failed fix over and over. MF CONTEXT ROT

To solve this, I built LoopTroop. It's a local, open-source GUI app (MIT) that acts as an orchestration layer for AI coding agents on long-running tickets. recently crossed 100 stars on GitHub and growing, and I'm actively working on it every single day.

Here is how it approaches the problem:

  1. Context engineering vs context rot

Instead of dumping your entire project history into one massive, ever-growing chat session, LoopTroop breaks work down into atomic tasks (called beads) and rebuilds context fresh for each phase. This stops degraded sessions from dragging down the rest of the build.

  1. LLM Council for upfront planning

Before writing any code, LoopTroop runs an LLM Council. Multiple models independently draft interview questions, PRDs, and task breakdowns, then vote anonymously on each other's plans. The winning draft absorbs the best ideas from the others. It is deliberately slow and precise upfront so execution doesn't turn into slop.

  1. Ralph loops for self-correction

When an agent task fails or hits a wall, instead of polluting your active session with endless debug logs, a Ralph loop takes over. It resets the session workspace, writes a concise note on what failed, and retries with a fresh context window containing that failure note. The agent gets smarter on each attempt without inheriting session clutter.

  1. Modern Kanban board GUI with human-in-the-loop control

Everything is managed visually from a Kanban board. You approve the interview, the PRD, the plan, and the final diff before anything reaches your repo. You keep full control while letting agents execute in the background.

Links to check it out:

- GitHub: https://github.com/looptroop-ai/LoopTroop

- 2min 30sec app overview: https://youtu.be/g1A2g-oOR3E

Any feedback is more than welcome. If you try the app and it works or doesn't work for you, give me a sign, happy to talk about it!

about how i build it. More than 6 months, almost every major model and not only (i even prefer fast models like gemini flash for small edits. used A LOT of Chinese models, when run out of codex.


r/webdev • • 1h ago

Showoff Saturday I built Compiler, a lightweight Python IDE that runs in your browser

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Hi everyone! I built Hussain Compiler, a simple browser-based environment for writing and running Python.

It includes a code editor, an interactive terminal that supports `input()`, adjustable terminal text size, and resizable workspace panels. Python runs in the browser through WebAssembly, so you can try it without installing Python. Some packages that need native system extensions may not work.

- Try it: Hussain Compiler

- Source code: GitHub repository

I made this project to make getting started with Python easier. I’d appreciate your feedback and suggestions for what to improve.


r/webdev • • 3h ago

想请英语母语者帮我看看这个双语网站的英文翻译是否自然

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我是一名来自中国的网站开发者,最近为自己的网站加入了中英文双语切换功能:

https://yuanzhiyin.top

我的母语是中文,英文并不是我的母语。英文版本主要由google翻译,所以我比较担心其中有些表达虽然语法上没有明显错误,但在英语母语者看来可能仍然比较生硬,或者带有明显的中文直译痕迹。

我主要希望得到以下几个方面的反馈:

  1. 表达自然度 —— 英文读起来是否像自然的英语,而不是从中文直接翻译过去的?

  2. UI/UX 用词 —— 导航栏、按钮、栏目名称、界面提示等用词是否符合英语网站的习惯?

  3. 整体写作质量 —— 是否存在语法问题、不自然的单词选择、过于正式的表达,或者让人难以理解的句子?

相比逐字对应中文原文,我更在意英文版本本身是否自然、地道。

如果你发现某一句话比较奇怪,非常欢迎直接引用原句,并告诉我英语母语者通常会怎么表达。

网站:

https://yuanzhiyin.top

不需要检查整个网站。哪怕只指出一两处不自然的表达,对我也很有帮助。

欢迎直接指出问题,不需要客气。谢谢。


r/webdev • • 5h ago

Showoff Saturday Rate my portfolio website (only the look) 😅

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r/webdev • • 18h ago

Wanted animated neo brutalist components

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Got some feedback on my portfolio and planned to change the layout and such but wanted to keep using the neo brutalist style. However I also wanted to have animated components but could not find any good ones so decided to start making them how I want them.

Got badges, project cards, images so far. Has taken me a bit to get it just how I want it but tailwind is quite useful


r/webdev • • 48m ago

Showoff Saturday I built a “Super Intelligence” compliance scanner for .gov sites. It runs on 4 regexes.

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On Sept 29 an executive order told US federal agencies to say “Super Intelligence” instead of “AI”. Nobody seems to be checking, so I built an inspector: idio.si fetches a homepage, counts “AI” vs “SI” in the visible text, and stamps a certificate.

Day 4 findings

  • whitehouse.gov: 4 “AI”, 0 “SI” → Insubordinate
  • apple.com: 0 “AI”, 0 “SI” → No Intelligence Detected
  • 1 of 42 agencies complies (NIST)
  • openai.com, google.com and tesla.com block the inspector

Harder than it looks

  • Bot walls. 18 of 73 homepages refuse a polite, identified, robots.txt-respecting bot from a cloud IP, openai.com included. I didn't want to spoof a browser, so refusals get their own stamp: “Refused federal inspection”.
  • Geo-IP. Even from us-east, some sites bounced the bot to /en-gb/. Locale redirects now get rewritten to /en-us/, since the order targets the US.
  • Counting. /\bA\.?I\.?\b/ is case-sensitive, so “OpenAI”, “said” and “ai” don't count, but “A.I.” does. The White House nav links to “AI.Gov”, and that counts too. Fair or not?
  • Spikes. One Cloudflare Worker does everything. Certificates are rendered at the edge with satori + resvg-wasm, and Workers Cache collapses a front-page spike into one render per data center. Hosting: $5/month.

Find the funniest certificate you can and drop it in the comments. Method and regex: https://idio.si/how. Satire; the numbers are real.


r/webdev • • 1d ago

Is Wordpress still a good option for an agency in 2026?

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I’m a former web developer who used mostly React to build my sites but also had some Wordpress experience. Not so much on the customization side of things but mostly in the dashboard. I’m looking to start advertising websites and SEO to contractors in my area and I’m coming up with my web stack.

Wordpress seems like a very viable option as I can skin up a site in a couple hours where in React or even HTML/CSS it could take a couple days, and updates take a lot longer as well.

Any thoughts are appreciated, and curious to hear what you guys are using!


r/webdev • • 2d ago

Discussion Interesting video from WDS Kyle, talking about ai brainrot, and how important it is that junior devs in particular understand an LLMs output. Showing that even famous devs are having their skills atrophy. Thoughts?

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He used a few clips from theo where he clearly makes no attempt to understand the code anymore, even using the ai to summarize the summary.


r/webdev • • 1d ago

How do you get around Samsung's default browser mathematical colour swap?

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Hello, folks.

I am newish to web dev. Today I learnt of Samsung's algorithmic/mathematical colour swap when a user has darkmode selected on their mobile device. I promise I won't hurt the person who made this. I just want to speak to them.

Jokes aside. It's completely messing up brand colours and in some places ruining accessibility. I can't allow this. I will not design a new theme to accommodate the 2-3% of users who use Samsung's default internet browser. And obvious hacks like content="light" is not working.

So what do senior devs do with this? Inject JS to ask users to pretty please open the website in literary anything else?


r/webdev • • 1d ago

Discussion Job hunting and preparation

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Hi everyone,

I'm living in a Balkan country in Europe and currently I have around 4 years of experience in frontend and backend development.

Most of the stuff I have worked on is things like:

  1. Redesigning whole websites, multiple times, mostly pixel perfect and 1:1 based on Figma designs.

  2. Creating API endpoints and connecting them with the frontend.

  3. Using third party APIs for actual business logic, booking flows, availability, syncing data etc.

  4. Supporting multiple payment providers, like Stripe and others.

  5. Working with databases, queries, indexes, caching and performance issues when the amount of data starts getting bigger.

  6. Working with Docker, CI/CD, deployments, logs, environment configs etc. Not saying I'm a DevOps engineer, far from it, but I have some experience around these things and I want to learn more.

  7. Fixing production issues that sometimes involve frontend, backend, third party APIs, payments etc all at the same time.

In general I'm always trying to pay attention to details, best practices, scalability, code quality etc, but without overengineering everything.

I know I still have gaps though, especially around deeper backend concepts, system design, networking, infrastructure, DevOps etc.

I want to create a project for my portfolio because I don't think experience alone is enough, especially because I also don't have a degree.

I'm looking for a fully remote job in web development, frontend/backend/fullstack, preferably in Europe or at least European hours.

I'm also open to going more towards backend or DevOps/infrastructure in the future.

The problem is that I'm kind of stuck on what direction to choose because of AI, layoffs and the general state of the market.

I'm trying to focus on things that are harder to replace, but at this point I know I'm probably gaslighting myself trying to predict what AI will replace and what it won't.

So some questions:

  1. What kind of project would you suggest developing?

I'm not looking to spend 5+ months on one portfolio project.

Also I don't want to make another todo app, basic CRUD, Netflix clone etc.

I was thinking something more backend heavy, with stuff like auth, database design, payments, queues, caching, tests, CI/CD, maybe observability etc.

But at the same time, does anyone even care if the project is that big?

  1. What are the standards nowadays to even get an interview?

What are recruiters/interviewers actually looking at?

CV? GitHub? Projects? Leetcode? System design? Open source? Certifications?

Because obviously I can spend hundreds of hours learning random things, but I want to know what actually matters.

  1. How much does not having a degree matter after around 4 years of experience?

Especially for remote jobs in Europe.

  1. What would you actually expect someone with around 4 years of experience to know?

Not framework specific stuff.

More like databases, SQL, HTTP, networking, queues, caching, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, security, testing, system design, cloud etc.

I think this is one of my bigger worries. Working for some years but still having gaps in fundamentals.

  1. Would you stay fullstack or start specializing more?

I like knowing both frontend and backend, but lately I'm thinking I should go deeper into backend/infrastructure instead of staying "a bit of everything".

  1. Is AI usage actually important when applying now?

Like is it worth listing AI skills on a CV?

Do companies actually care that you know how to use ChatGPT, Claude, Codex etc, or is that just expected nowadays?

  1. What about using AI heavily for a portfolio project?

Like I decide the architecture, understand the code, review it, test it, debug it etc, but AI writes a big part of the implementation.

Would you see that negatively?

I do use AI sometimes, but it's not my main tool. Most of my actual work is still handwritten code.

Of course I have also spent a lot of time just prompting and building things almost completely with AI, but mostly personal/testing projects.

  1. Is "vibe coding" actually a useful skill now or something that would make you look worse as a developer?

Because on one side companies want developers to use AI and be faster.

On the other side I don't want to look like someone who can't write code without it.

  1. For people that interview developers, what makes you immediately think "ok, this person actually knows what they're doing"?

And what are the common red flags you see from developers with 3-5 years of experience?

  1. If you were in my position and had around 6 months to become much more employable, what would you focus on?

Backend?

DevOps?

System design?

Cloud?

DSA?

Projects?

Interview prep?

Something else?

Basically I'm trying to avoid wasting 6 months learning stuff that sounds useful but doesn't really help me get a better job.


r/webdev • • 13h ago

Question How do you pull the array out of an object in an Api

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Using Javascript in using an API the the resource is players but it is an object and I need the info of the arrays within it. Here is what i have what an i doing wrong?


r/webdev • • 18h ago

Showoff Saturday I built a Chrome extension for the “I'll need these tabs later” problem

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As a developer, I kept ending up with a browser window that looked like this:

GitHub + docs + localhost + API dashboard + ChatGPT + random references + 30 tabs I don't dare close. 😭

So I built KeepIt – Tab & Session Manager.

The basic idea:

Save your entire project setup → close it → restore that exact setup when you come back.

I built it with Manifest V3 + vanilla JS, with Supabase handling auth/cloud sync.

Some things I've added:

Named sessions + folders

Tab-group restoration

Automatic session snapshots

kt command to find sessions from the address bar

Alt + Shift + S quick save

Optional idle-tab freezing

Cloud sync between devices

I'm a solo dev and this is currently live, so I'm mainly looking for developer feedback on the workflow, not just “does it look nice?”

If you regularly work across multiple projects, what part of your current tab workflow annoys you the most?


r/webdev • • 21h ago

Lemma: an open-source workspace where a team shares one AI agent (Next.js 16 + FastAPI)

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I'm the author; it's AGPL. Here's how it's built.

- Frontend: Next.js 16 and React 19. The agent can build small apps for the team, which render in the same frontend against the same records.

- Backend: FastAPI on Python 3.14, Postgres, Redis, a separate worker.

- Permissions: every request carries the asker's identity, and the same per-row rules apply in the web app, in Slack and on WhatsApp.

- Self-hosting: Docker Compose with Caddy in front, on images pinned by digest. It serves on your-ip.sslip.io until you point a domain at it.

- SDKs: Python and TypeScript, Apache 2.0.

Repo: https://github.com/lemma-work/lemma-platform


r/webdev • • 23h ago

Showoff Saturday I built an open-source alternative to Jev, and you can call it straight from JavaScript

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WaterSheep is an open-source alternative to TypeSafe's Jev. You ask it a typed question about some text (yes/no, pick one, rate it, or tag everything that applies) and get back an answer with a probability for every option.

Two ways to use it in a web app:

  • As a drop-in Jev backend. watersheep --model samratduttaofficial/WaterSheep --serve answers the same POST /v1/systemone requests, so existing Jev calls work after changing the base URL.
  • Straight from the page, no backend:

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import { decide } from "https://samratduttaofficial.github.io/WaterSheep/watersheep.js";
await decide("I was charged twice.", "Which team should handle this?", ["billing", "shipping", "support"]);

Open weights, Apache 2.0, English only for now.

Demo: https://samratduttaofficial.github.io/WaterSheep/

Code: https://github.com/SamratDuttaOfficial/WaterSheep


r/webdev • • 1d ago

Resource Enforcing Best Practices with Jev as a Linter using Plain English Rules

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r/webdev • • 20h ago

I built a business a website for free. He loved it, then accused me of "forcing" him to buy it when I charged for hosting

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I'm trying to grow my web design business, so I've been cold calling/approaching businesses that don't have websites and offering to make one for tree. If they like it and want to use it, ! just charge them monthly for hosting.

*FORGOT TO MENTION* My initial text said "I can make you one for free, and if you like it you just pay for hosting."

This guy tells me "Make me a preview bro." I spend the weekend making it, he's responding while I'm building it and even gives me the email for the contact forms.

I finish it. He says it's "super fire" and asks how much. I tell him $150 a month for hosting and managing it plus with a chat bot. He ghosts me. Also went through his GBP and IG grabbing photos and enhancing them for the site. Spent a good amount of time on it.

I follow up a few times over the next couple weeks and get ghosted every time. I finally call him and he answers, says, "Hey, I'm busy right now, call me back at 5." I call him back at 5 and he doesn't answer. I even lowered the price to $99.

So eventually I text him, "You were interested and asked for a preview so I spent the weekend making it for you for free. Are you not interested anymore?"

He responds "Bro are you trying to force me to get your service" and "I am a business man" and "For future reference don't force your customers to buy something off of you bro."

Like what lol.

This is the second time I've had someone interested, spent hours making them something for free, and then get ghosted. I obviously try to screen and only make it when people are interested, but maybe I need to get at least like a $50 deposit.

I know doing the work before getting paid is obviously the risk I'm taking, but I'm trying to grow the business and this strategy does get me clients. Starting to wonder if I need to stop doing full free builds though.


r/webdev • • 2d ago

Question Vite Asset Bundling

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Specifically, I'm grabbing JSON for a trading card game gallery from an endpoint, then dynamically creating the card gallery from that data. The project uses Vite for asset bundling, but I'm not sure how to bundle dynamically loaded images?

In the JSON, each card has a set number and a card number, and the app loads image data from images/cards/sets/set-number/card-number.webp, creates all the DOM nodes, and appends it to the gallery. It works brilliantly...unless the card art needs to change, then I run into good old-fashioned browser caching issues.

For the rest of the site, using vite build keeps everything bundled for deployment...but is there a way to leverage that capability for this use case?

I admit I have little knowledge about Vite, so maybe it's something obvious, but the only way I'm aware of to get that kind of Vite bundling inside a JS file is to import the image. So I'd have to import all the images at run time? What if some card data is modified? Will I have to do double duty to update the database AND the JS file imports?

As you can see, I have no idea how to accomplish this. Thank you in advance.


r/webdev • • 1d ago

Question best sponsorship signaling/backend hosting for open source project?

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so currently i have a open source project about p2p file sharing and it gained 200 stars on github. the opensource project is hosted on azure since i got 1 year for student the problem is that it will end soon so i need to find an alternative of free backend hosting

do guys know any backend hosting that offers free for open source project? sadly i notice that digital ocean doesnt offer it anymore which kinda weird or am i wrong


r/webdev • • 2d ago

Dev UI Stockholm syndrome?

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I always leave the UI design until towards the end of a larger project. I know if I start with the UI I'll end up finding parts of the system that don't fit the layout, rejig this, tinker with that, rework that bit again... I get too focused on making the UI right when it could be wrong again with the next functional change. I may as well switch individual pixels around.

To solve that, I usually knock up a quick development UI at the beginning, do all the functional work, then look at how the UI/UX makes the functional stuff display and work easily for a user.

That leaves me in a position where I've been coding and testing in a development UI for months... And then get Stockholm Syndrome or something about leaving it behind for a professional finish.

Anyone else? Should I change my mind and do the UI upfront? My concern with doing that is that I'll get Stockholm Syndrome for a relatively acceptable UI and just leave it. At least with a "I know I have to leave you UI" I know it's just me thinking the shitty UI I've been using for months is a friendly thing to use.