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Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for DevelopersAdvertise with Us|Sign Up to the Newsletter @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} }WebDevPro #101: Replit AI wipes a live database, Node drops the build step for TypeScript, and Chrome urges a return to semantic HTML 🌍🔍Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for DevelopersHi ,Welcome to WebDevPro #101.This week’s issue surfaces what’s shaping the developer workflow behind the headlines: an AI misstep with real consequences, a leaner way to run TypeScript, and grounded insights from developers who are in it daily.🧨 Replit’s AI coding agent deleted an entire production database during a code freeze and returned a fake success message. This shows that vibe coding still requires real production knowledge to be safe.⚡ Node.js can now run TypeScript natively, no transpiler, no build tools. Just write .ts and go. It’s fast, clean, and could shift how devs build with TS entirely.⚙️ GitHub Spark is live now! Spark converts plain-English prompts into full-stack applications, an early but clear step toward AI-first development workflows.📌 Chrome makes the case for semantic HTML again, showing how the <article> tag quietly improves accessibility, readability, and search across modern UIs.🗣️ This TTS sentence reader lets you listen as you iterate: perfect if you're building anything voice-related or just tired of reading UI copy.Let’s get into it.Advertise with usInterested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com.Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here.Take the Survey NowLatest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 🧨 Replit AI coding assistant wipes entire company database:Replit’s AI coding agent was given limited access but ignored a code freeze, wiped production data, and returned a fake success message. The issue wasn’t just technical; it exposed how AI coding agents are still learning, and how steep the learning curve can be. Before writing production code with AI, developers need a solid understanding of how production-grade apps are structured and shipped.🐍 Python 3.14.0 RC1 is live: The next major milestone in Python's journey has arrived. Python 3.14 enters release candidate phase, locking in exciting features like customizable f-strings, exception groups in BaseExceptionGroup, and --check-hash-based-pycs always for added reproducibility.⚡ Run TypeScript natively with Node.js: No more transpile step. Node now runs .ts files out of the box using the TypeScript Native compiler. Faster cold starts, leaner workflows, and serious potential for tooling evolution.💎 Ruby 3.3.9 patches up:This latest Ruby patch release tackles several critical regressions and security issues, especially affecting Net::IMAP and MJIT. A safe update if you're building on 3.3.x.🐘 PostgreSQL 18 beta hits the docs: Fresh out of beta, Postgres 18 brings even more to love: better RETURNING support for MERGE, improved logical replication performance, and libpq enhancements that boost connection handling.🌐 Laravel 12.2.0 gets smarter:Laravel just added more guardrails for developers. This release includes new Blade debugging helpers and stricter behavior around environment configuration—small tweaks that pack a lot of DX polish.⚙️ GitHub Spark builds full-stack apps from plain text: GitHub’s new Copilot tool, Spark, lets you describe an app in natural language and generate a working full-stack prototype. It’s early, but it points clearly toward faster, AI-first development loops. Fix your mental stack overflow 🧘Long sessions = drained focus. Here’s your energy patch:🎧 Get into flow with Focus@Will, which uses neuroscience-backed music to help devs stay zoned in.😮‍💨 Hit pause with box breathing, a 4x4x4x4 method Navy SEALs and software engineers (apparently) both swear by.Try this combo before your next big deploy; you might actually enjoy it.Twilio Segment: Data you can depend on, built your wayTwilio Segment was purpose-built so that you don’t have to worry about your data. Forget the data chaos, dissolve the silos between teams and tools, and bring your data together with ease. So that you can spend more time innovating and less time integrating.Learn moreExpert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙📌 The humble <article> tag deserves more love:In a sea of div soup, Chrome’s latest blog highlights how semantic HTML like <article> unlocks better readability, accessibility, and search. This isn’t just for blog posts, it matters for product UIs, dashboards, and more.🧠 Caching is hard, even for humans:This developer confessional from Blacksmith cuts through the usual caching advice and gets real about where things break. Expect practical scenarios and a few sharp insights on balancing performance with sanity.🤖 Mental models don’t map 1:1 to AI tooling:John Whiles explores why developers can struggle to make AI tools click. The real challenge isn’t adoption—it’s reconciling how we think about problems with how LLMs solve them. It’s thoughtful, honest, and worth your scroll.🧩 Frontend isn’t going anywhere: Despite the hype around backend-for-frontend (BFF), edge rendering, and AI-based layout tools, InfoWorld argues that frontend skills are still foundational. Clean CSS, accessible HTML, and state orchestration remain as vital as ever.🏢 Enterprise AI needs a grounded strategy:This isn’t about playing with prompts—it’s about aligning AI with actual business goals. From data readiness to change management, InfoWorld’s take walks through how to deploy AI with purpose instead of panic.Want to be featured in WebDevPro? Share your tips or takes, we’re all ears!This week's book drop 📚📘 Node.js Design Patterns, Fourth Edition by Luciano Mammino and Mario CasciaroA practical guide to building scalable, modular Node.js apps using proven design patterns. Learn how to write cleaner code with async flows, middleware, and event-driven architecture.🟦 Learn advanced asynchronous patterns and error handling🟦 Master modularity, dependency injection, and testability in Node🟦 Explore real-world applications of event-driven architecturePre-order your copy now!Developer tip 💡🗣️ Speed up voice-over work with this JS-powered TTS readerNeed to test speech interfaces, generate narration, or just hear your own content read aloud? This no-fuss sentence reader breaks down text into speakable chunks and pipes it through the Web Speech API. Useful for accessibility checks, rapid TTS prototyping, or writing with your ears instead of your eyes.Got a minute? Tell us what clicked (or didn't)🎬 That’s your download for the week. If you’ve got feedback, rants, or ideas to share, we’re all ears.See you next week.Cheers!Kinnari Chohan,Editor-in-chiefSUBSCRIBE FOR MORE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND!*{box-sizing:border-box}body{margin:0;padding:0}a[x-apple-data-detectors]{color:inherit!important;text-decoration:inherit!important}#MessageViewBody a{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}p{line-height:inherit}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{mso-hide:all;display:none;max-height:0;overflow:hidden}.image_block img+div{display:none}sub,sup{font-size:75%;line-height:0}#converted-body .list_block ol,#converted-body .list_block ul,.body [class~=x_list_block] ol,.body [class~=x_list_block] ul,u+.body .list_block ol,u+.body .list_block ul{padding-left:20px} @media (max-width: 100%;display:block}.mobile_hide{min-height:0;max-height:0;max-width: 100%;overflow:hidden;font-size:0}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{display:table!important;max-height:none!important}} @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} }

Real-world insights for sharper web dev decisions Advertise with Us|Sign Up to the Newsletter @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } WebDevPro #100 🎉 Form Submission in React 19: A Game-Changer for Developers Real-world insights for sharper web dev decisions Hi , Before we jump in, THANK YOU ! Every click, reply, and bit of feedback over the past 99 issues helped us build WebDevPro into what it is today. We’re incredibly proud to bring you issue #100. 🎯 To mark the milestone, we’re diving into a topic that reflects the kind of shift we love covering: quietly released, deeply impactful, and immediately relevant. React has evolved a lot over the years, but form handling? It’s long been a source of friction, even for seasoned developers. You needed boilerplate, custom handlers, and third-party libraries just to submit a form. React 19 changes that. To unpack one of its most impactful updates, we sat down with Daniel Bugl, React community contributor and author of Learn React Hooks. His book explores hook-based development in React 18 and 19, and in this special edition, Daniel offers a deep dive into Form Actions, a new feature that brings native simplicity to form submission. With hands-on insights from his work across startups, public sector platforms, and his own company TouchLay, he shows how React 19 is shifting the landscape for frontend developers. In this article, you’ll specifically learn: Why form handling in React has traditionally required workarounds and third-party tools How Form Actions in React 19 simplify submissions with zero dependencies What the useActionState hook does and how to use it effectively How React’s embrace of web standards enhances both developer ergonomics and performance When to skip third-party form libraries and when to keep them The role of FormData Why this shift marks a turning point in how we build UIs in React Before you jump in, here are some highlights from our recent WebDevPro coverage: 👉 Introducing Figma’s Dev Mode MCP Server 👉 Most RESTful APIs Are Not Really RESTful – Florian Kraemer 👉 The Accessibility Pipeline for Frontend Teams – Storybook 👉 The Angular Custom Profiling Track Is Now Available 👉 Introducing Gemini CLI – Google Blog Now let's get straight to the good stuff! Cheers! Your editor-in-chief, Kinnari Chohan Advertise with us Interested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com. Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here. Meet the expert Daniel Bugl is a full-stack developer, product designer, and entrepreneur focusing on web technologies. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in business informatics and information systems and a Master of Science degree in data science from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). He is a contributor to many open source projects and a member of the React community. He also founded and runs his own hardware/software start-up, TouchLay, which helps other companies present their products and services. At his company, he constantly works with web technologies, particularly making use of React and Next.js. In the past couple of years, he has worked as a technical advisor and full-stack developer for large enterprises and the public sector, among other things working on citizen services for the Austrian government. Take the Survey Now Why Form Submissions Have Always Been a Headache Up until now, crafting a reliable form in React meant cobbling together multiple moving parts. Loading indicators. Error states. Async logic. Validation rules. Libraries like Formik and React Hook Form promised to help, but came at the cost of extra weight and complexity. The problem wasn’t just technical; it was philosophical. Building a form shouldn’t feel like spinning up a mini state machine. A New Native: Enter Form Actions React 19 introduces Form Actions, a fresh, built-in mechanism that makes form submissions not just manageable, but almost effortless. Instead of inventing a new model, Form Actions extends the standards that browsers have supported for years, combining them with React’s declarative philosophy. The result is a native-feeling form experience that removes the need for custom onSubmit handlers, spinners, or manually tracked errors. What Makes It So Different? Let’s break down what developers gain by using Form Actions: No More Loading State Juggling: Submissions automatically reflect their pending state. Automatic Error Boundaries: Errors are caught and handled gracefully without extra wiring. Minimal Code, Maximum Clarity: You write what matters: input fields and business logic. Standards-First: It builds on FormData, making it interoperable with native HTML and APIs. No Extra Packages Needed: For simple forms, Form Actions eliminate the need for additional libraries. A Look at the Code Here's a simple ContactForm component using useActionState -- React 19's hook for handling form actions: import { useActionState } from 'react'; function ContactForm() { const [state, submitAction, isPending] = useActionState( async (prevState, formData) => { try { const response = await fetch('/api/contact', { method: 'POST', body: formData, }); if (!response.ok) { throw new Error('Failed to submit form'); } return { success: true, message: 'Form submitted successfully!' }; } catch (error) { return { success: false, error: error.message }; } }, { success: false, message: '' } ); return ( <form action={submitAction}> <input name="email" type="email" required /> <textarea name="message" required /> <button type="submit" disabled={isPending}> {isPending ? 'Submitting...' : 'Submit'} </button> {state.success && <p style={{ color: 'green' }}>{state.message}</p>} {state.error && <p style={{ color: 'red' }}>Error: {state.error}</p>} </form> ); } What used to demand state hooks, custom handlers, and error tracking now fits cleanly into a single hook pattern. The behavior stays predictable, and the code remains focused. Demystifying useActionState The useActionState hook is the engine behind the simplicity. It accepts two key inputs: Action Function: This handles submission logic and returns updated state. Initial State: The shape of your form’s state before any interaction. Its return includes: Current State: A state object reflecting success, error, or pending state. Submit Function: Passed directly to the form's action attribute. Pending Indicator: A boolean that tells you whether the action is still being processed. It’s not magic, it’s just better design. The Role of FormData Under the hood, React 19 uses the standard FormData API. This means your form data integrates smoothly with fetch() and server APIs. It’s iterable, lightweight, and supports native browser behaviors without needing a JSON transformation step. Want to learn more? Here’s the MDN reference for FormData. Do Form Libraries Still Matter? React 19’s Form Actions offer a compelling default for handling simple to moderately complex forms, especially those with linear input flows, basic validation, and limited state dependencies. For many use cases, that’s more than enough. But there are still valid reasons to reach for a library: Complex Field Logic: Dynamic forms with conditional field rendering, field-level validation rules, and deeply nested structures still benefit from libraries like Formik or React Hook Form. Custom Validation Systems: When you need schema-based validation (e.g., with Zod or Yup) tightly integrated with your form, third-party libraries provide more granular control and extensibility. Reusable Field Components: If you're managing dozens of input types with shared behaviors (debouncing, formatting, etc.), external libraries help abstract and standardize those patterns. Multi-Step or Wizard Flows: For forms spread across steps or pages, with persistent data across transitions, external form state management may offer cleaner separation and more control. React 19 narrows the gap significantly, but doesn't aim to replace every form tool. Instead, it raises the baseline, giving you a built-in option that handles the fundamentals exceptionally well. You may still choose external libraries, but now, it's a deliberate choice rather than a necessity. What This Means for the Future of React Development The addition of Form Actions in React 19 is more than a convenience feature: it signals a broader shift in how React aligns with the platform. In earlier versions, React often abstracted away browser behavior: it replaced native form mechanics with its own event system, encouraged state-driven rendering over traditional form submissions, and nudged developers toward controlled inputs. While powerful, this approach also created friction, especially for developers working closely with web APIs or server-side logic. Form Actions mark a shift in the opposite direction. React now leverages: The native FormData API, which integrates smoothly with server endpoints Progressive enhancement, letting forms degrade gracefully in environments without JavaScript Async-friendly patterns, like useActionState, that reduce complexity in managing submission flow By embracing standards and minimizing the need for scaffolding, React is moving closer to a model where simple things are truly simple, and complexity is opt-in, not baked in. For developers, this means: Less time writing glue code and handling edge cases More focus on user experience and business logic Cleaner mental models for state transitions and UI feedback React 19 doesn’t remove flexibility. It just gives you a stronger default. And that’s exactly what modern frontend development needs: guardrails that don’t get in your way. Go Deeper Want to dig further into React 19 and its new hooks pattern? Learn React Hooks by Daniel Bugl walks through this and more, covering everything from useEffect fundamentals to advanced composable logic. This change in form handling is more than just a new feature; it’s a sign that React is growing up. And for developers, that means less scaffolding and more building. Got 60 seconds? 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Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for Developers Advertise with Us|Sign Up to the Newsletter @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } WebDevPro #99: Angular introduces custom profiling tools, TypeScript adds LSP updates, and Figma's new MCP server 🌍🔍 Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for Developers Hi , Welcome to WebDevPro #99! This week’s issue is a goldmine of must-know releases, emerging trends, and sharp community takes. Here's what you don't want to miss: ⚙️ TypeScript 5.9 beta: Faster symbol search, smarter completions, and Go-to-Definition that finally behaves. 🧠 Figma’s new MCP Server: Say goodbye to messy exports. Structured design data now flows straight into your dev stack. 🔍 Performance tuning in Angular: Angular’s new custom profiling track gets serious about SSR and hydration debugging. 🧪 Storybook 9.0 brings smarter UI testing: Interaction testing and a11y checks now baked in, no extra config needed. 🧼 Smarter CSS Cleanup with AI: New research shows how machine learning can cut unused styles and slim down your stylesheets automatically. Let's dig in! Advertise with us Interested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com. Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here. Latest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 ⚙️TypeScript 5.9 beta adds language server protocol enhancements: The latest TypeScript beta focuses on polish. Symbol search is faster, completions are more context-aware, and Go to Definition is finally getting smarter about overloads. No flashy features, just quality-of-life upgrades devs will feel every day. 🔍 Angular launches custom profiling track: Performance tuning in Angular just got an upgrade. This new profiling track integrates with Chrome DevTools and visualizes hydration, change detection, and Signals more clearly. If you’re debugging Angular SSR or optimizing large apps, this one’s for you. 🔧 Node.js 24.4 lands with V8 12.4 and diagnostic tweaks: Node 24.4 quietly drops updates to diagnostics_channel, better WebSocket behavior, and a V8 bump that improves performance under the hood. It’s incremental, but stability matters when your runtime is in production everywhere. 🧩 Figma’s Dev Mode MCP Server: Figma’s new MCP Server quietly rewires how design tokens and UI code connect. Now, devs can pull structured design data straight into their stack, no more manual sync or messy exports. One tool for the whole UI loop, finally working like it should. 🌠 Perplexity launches Comet browser with built-in AI:Chrome dominance isn’t shaking yet, but Perplexity’s new Comet browser is aiming for utility over ubiquity. It lets you search with natural questions, get summaries inline, and ask follow-ups without switching tabs. 🤖 AWS to debut AI agent marketplace with Anthropic: This week, AWS is rolling out a dedicated space for pre-trained AI agents, tightly integrated with Bedrock. Anthropic is in at launch, which means Claude-powered tools will be just an API call away for any team working in the AWS cloud. Make your breaks smarter than your bugs 🧠 Tired of scrolling aimlessly between commits? Next time you take a breather, give your brain something fun and useful. 🧩 Try Untrusted,a game where you hack JavaScript logic to escape puzzles. It’s like VS Code meets escape room. 🧠 Then run a quick check on Human Benchmark to flex your memory, focus, and problem-solving muscles. Warning: Oddly addictive. Side effects may include better debugging and faster PR reviews. Expert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙 🔄 Async Ruby gets a future-focused reality check: Paolina Carmine unpacks the growing interest in async Ruby, tracing the why and the what's next. This take is practical and grounded in real-world limitations. Devs who’ve written concurrent code in Ruby (or tried to) will find this one especially validating. 📡 Most REST APIs aren't really RESTful: Florian Kraemer calls out common violations of REST principles, showing how most APIs claiming the badge miss on constraints like statelessness and proper resource modeling. This is a reminder that solid API design still matters. 🧠 What agentic apps actually look like: Beam offers a practical lens on what it takes to build agentic applications that feel autonomous yet reliable. The post goes past buzzwords into concrete patterns and system design choices that shape how AI-driven apps operate in the real world. 🧭 New research rethinks how agents learn plans: A new paper from Cornell Universityexplores how agents learn and revise plans from feedback, not just static goals. The team proposes a model that mirrors human-like decision-making under uncertainty. The implications go far beyond robotics into how we think about dev workflows with AI in the loop. 🛡️Ethereum cofounder calls for copyleft in Web3:Vitalik Buterin makes the case that permissive licensing has slowed Web3’s ability to create a truly open ecosystem. He calls for a shift to copyleft licenses like AGPL to prevent corporate lock-in and ensure protocol-level transparency. It’s a bold stance that reframes licensing not as legal hygiene but as a structural choice in decentralized design. Want to be featured in WebDevPro? Share your tips or takes, we’re all ears! This week's book drop 📚 📘 Design Beyond Limits with Figma by Simon Jun Ready to turn Figma into a true collaboration engine? This book goes beyond screen mockups to show you how high-performing teams build scalable design systems, streamline handoffs, and integrate AI to boost delivery. Whether you're managing tokens, coordinating with devs, or scaling accessibility, this is your playbook for serious design-to-dev alignment. 📦 Get 25% off the paperback. Use code FIGMA25at checkout. Offer valid through Friday only. Pre-order your copy now! Developer tip 💡 Smarter UIs start with Storybook 9.0 The new Storybook isn’t just smaller, it’s smarter. Version 9.0 now includes built-in interaction testing and accessibility checks, so you can catch UI bugs and a11y issues as you build. No extra setup. No extra tools. If you work on front-end components or design systems, this update will instantly tighten your workflow. Got a minute? Tell us what clicked (or didn't) 🎬 That’s your scoop from the dev-verse this week.If your brain’s buzzing with ideas or feedback, hit reply. Until next week. Cheers! 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Real-world insights for sharper web dev decisions Advertise with Us|Sign Up to the Newsletter @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } WebDevPro #98: Why Thoughtful System Design Begins with Clear Intent Real-world insights for sharper web dev decisions Hi , Welcome to WebDevPro #98! This time, we’re bringing you something different. Not the news, but the thinking behind the build. This feature unpacks a practical approach to system design: the one that starts with clarity, not code. It’s based on the ideas from Spring System Design in Practice by Rodrigo Santiago, and reframed here through the lens of day-to-day product work. If you’ve ever found yourself untangling a feature too late in the game, this one’s for you. We walk through how product decisions become service boundaries, how design artefacts stack to reduce guesswork, and how to avoid building logic that doesn’t belong. Along the way, you’ll see what it takes to move from an initial idea to a clean, testable implementation. Have any ideas you want to see in the next article? Hit Reply! Your editor, Kinnari Chohan Advertise with us Interested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com. Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here. Why Product Blueprints Outlive Code Spend long enough shipping web products and you’ll notice a pattern: failed launches rarely crumble under the weight of sophisticated concurrency bugs or obscure network edge-cases. They fail because the team never fully aligned on the problem the software was meant to solve, how success would be measured, or where one person’s responsibility ended and another’s began. The code just makes those early omissions visible. This piece walks through a lightweight approach for turning raw business ideas into production-ready microservices, without over-engineering or skipping the fundamentals. You’ll learn how to: Turn fuzzy requests into precise, testable requirements Translate those into a roadmap every stakeholder can follow Model domains and verbs so APIs stay expressive, not entangled Sketch sequence diagrams that surface integration risks before any code is written We’ll use a fictional rental platform, HomeIt, to ground the examples. It’s a thin wrapper around problems every web engineer encounters: user registration, content publishing, payments, external partners, and traffic spikes. 1 | Start with the Why and Perfect your Business Requirements A well-written requirement is one of the most valuable assets in software development. When it’s incomplete or unclear, the consequences pile up: months of code thrown away, critical flows missing at release, integration bugs appearing late in QA, and launch delays that sap morale and budgets. Functional versus non-functional requirements Functional requirements spell out what the system should do: “support Visa payments,” “let tenants send rental proposals.” Non-functional requirements describe how well it should do it: “process a thousand payments per minute,” “remain available during a regional outage.” One creates value; the other safeguards it. Both are essential. The quickest way to surface missing pieces is to walk through two states with product owners or clients: Undesirable present: What pain are we addressing? Desired future: What observable outcome shows that the pain is gone? Push for measurable indicators (“mean payment latency under 200 ms”, “95 % of image uploads processed within 30 s”) and ask about edge-cases: alternate user behaviors, upstream service failures, peak-hour traffic. Capture the answers in a living requirements document; it becomes the north star for architecture, test plans, and scalability budgeting. 2 | How to Sort Ideas and Build an Executable Roadmap Brainstorms fill whiteboards. Backlogs create movement. In our HomeIt app, the product trio collected dozens of nice-to-have features: messaging, realtor partnerships, and payment automation. To sequence them, they scored each idea on vision, size of problem, ROI, cost, dependencies, and uniqueness. The top results told a compelling story: Property search (121) needed to go first, it underpinned everything else. Messaging followed closely (118). Realtor partnerships came in later (91). Once a feature rose to the top, the team moved it through four layers of refinement: Feature statement: A single-sentence promise of value. User journey: A narrative of an actor reaching a goal through the system. Use cases: Structured exchanges of inputs and outputs that frame expectations. Stories: Sprint-sized, INVEST-friendly tasks. For example, take “Tenant sends a rental proposal”. It starts as a journey and breaks into use-case steps (identify property, compose proposal, landlord reviews, tenant receives result) and finally into sprintable sizes such as “Persist proposal draft” or “Notify landlord.” This funnel keeps developers focused and stakeholders clear on progress without diving into implementation details. Once shaped, features are locked into quarterly increments. Twelve weeks is short enough to stay responsive to learning yet long enough to deliver a coherent slice of customer value. 3 | Model the Nouns Before You Shape the Domains Once your user stories are refined, underline every noun. That simple step reveals the backbone of your system. In HomeIt those nouns include Rental Property, Rental Proposal, Payment, User; each a potential domain. A domain deserves isolation when it owns a clear life-cycle (inactive → published), encapsulates its own rules, can scale independently, and can evolve without side effects for adjacent parts of the system. Mapping out these relationships sharpens shared understanding. Even a basic domain diagram – boxes for entities, verbs on arrows – can clarify the system on a single page. From that, teams can shape schemas, define service boundaries, or plan event topics. Take the Rental Property domain in HomeIt, for example. It moves through inactive → processing media → ready → published as a landlord uploads photos and clears validations. Naming those transitions early helped the team prepare for asynchronous workflows and plan for safe, repeatable state updates, long before a single line was written. Domain modelling also unlocked a new structure. While sketching, the team noticed that price negotiation didn’t sit cleanly inside proposals or payments. So they carved out a Counteroffer domain to keep responsibilities focused and avoid muddled logic. 4 | Services and Operations: Giving Verbs to the Nouns Domains define the what. Services handle the how. A service represents an operation performed within a domain, starting with the basics like create, read, update, and delete (CRUD), then extending into actions that reflect the business itself. In practice, though, many REST APIs expose only the surface of an object. The real behavior gets buried behind overloaded parameters or generic endpoints, which makes systems harder to understand and even harder to evolve. To bring clarity, the team ran each domain through four simple lenses: Basic actions: Create, Read, Update, Delete. Special actions: Domain-specific verbs such as sendProposal, counterOffer, and publishProperty. Candidates for new domains: Operations that don’t clearly belong (messaging, analytics). Inputs → rules → outputs: Explicit contracts that later feed test cases and API docs. In the Partnership Proposal domain of the HomeIt, CRUD handles draft management, but business logic demands extra verbs: approveProposal, rejectProposal, and startChat for realtor-landlord communication. Naming these early helps everyone see where specific endpoints, async events, or even separate services may be needed, before that logic gets buried in brittle glue code. 5 | Sequencing the Flow: Diagrams That Developers Actually Use Linear prose often falls short when describing how services interact over time. That’s where sequence diagrams come in: actors across the x-axis, time flowing down the y-axis, arrows capturing the exchange of messages. The key is deciding how much detail to include. A payment operations engineer might want to see retries and error handling. A product manager might just need to follow the main steps. The right level of depth depends on who’s reading. With PlantUML, teams can write diagrams as plaintext: code you can version alongside everything else. Paste a script into plantuml.com, generate an SVG, and share it in a pull request. A small edit to the script redraws the whole diagram; no dragging boxes around in slides. Sequence diagrams become even more useful when placed next to the domain model. Domains help define the system’s boundaries. Sequences show how those parts collaborate. Used together, they reveal integration risks early, well before testing begins. The following sequence sketch illustrates that flow, capturing how a tenant initiates a proposal, how the system delegates responsibilities across services, and where retries and idempotent updates come into play: 6 | Putting It All together: A Guided Walk-Through Here’s how a complete slice of functionality moves through the pipeline, starting from a blank page and ending in production-ready service code. Problem statement Landlords often travel. They need a way to partner with local realtors so property showings can continue in their absence. Feature and backlog This feature scored 91 out of 150. It’s valuable, but not essential to initial rentals, so it’s scheduled for Q2, after property search and messaging. Requirements Before accepting a partnership, the landlord must be able to review availability, fee percentage, and realtor rating. The system needs to handle 10,000 proposals per day and recover from a realtor API outage within five minutes. Domains Rental Property, Partnership Proposal, User. Payment remains a separate concern for now. Services createProposal, approveProposal, listPartnerships, scheduleVisit. Domain flow A realtor fills out the proposal form. The system records the draft and marks it pending approval. The landlord accepts. The proposal status updates to approved. The realtor’s contact now appears on the property page . Sequence sketch Tenant → Search → Property Realtor → Proposal → Landlord Proposal → Payments (Arrows show retries and idempotent updates.) Implementation choices Property and Proposal are built as two Spring Boot microservices, each with its own database. When a ProposalApproved event is triggered, it signals the messaging service to open a chat channel. Targets for availability (three-nines) and latency (P99 under 400 ms) inform Kubernetes settings and circuit-breaker policies. Every step builds on the one before it. By the time coding begins, every engineer understands the requirements, the API contracts, and how the system should recover when things go wrong. In summary, clarify requirements early. They’re key to saving time and budget. Score features before building to bring structure to decisions. Model nouns first to avoid hidden monoliths, and design services around real business actions. Finally, sketch timelines early to prevent costly last-minute changes. Got 60 seconds? Tell us what clicked (or didn’t) Here’s your next Sprint challenge Block off half a day for a deep-dive on requirements. Create a domain diagram. Draft one sequence sketch for an upcoming feature. Pin them beside the sprint board. 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Let's start with the highlights: 🟢 Node.js v24.3.0 & v22.17.0 LTS Released: V8 upgrades, better diagnostics, and more stable production builds 🦀 Rust 1.88 Sharpens Safety and Extensibility: Adds non-exhaustive traits, assume intrinsic, and wildcard Cargo features 🧠 GitHub CEO: Manual Coding Still Matters: Thomas Dohmke reminds devs they're still essential—even in the AI era 📄 Claude’s “Artifacts” Feature: Turn chats into editable, versionable documents for collaborative projects ✨ Gemini CLI as Your AI Agent: Google’s new tool makes terminal scripting cleaner and AI-assisted We’ve rounded up releases, tools, and expert takes that sharpen your workflow and won’t waste your time. Scroll down and dig in. Latest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 🟢 Node.js v24.3.0 & v22.17.0 LTS Released: This week’s Node.js update delivers something for everyone. The current version, v24.3.0, upgrades to V8 12.4 and brings improved performance diagnostics and bug fixes. Meanwhile, v22.17.0 (LTS) is a stability-focused release with important security patches and production-ready enhancements. 🦀 Rust 1.88 Sharpens Safety and Extensibility: Rust 1.88.0 adds support for #[non_exhaustive] on traits, letting library authors design more resilient APIs. The release also introduces a new assume intrinsic for unsafe code optimizations and brings glob pattern support to Cargo’s --features flag. Clean, smart, and built for scale. 💡 Google Debuts Gemini CLI as an AI Agent for Your Terminal: Google’s Gemini CLI is now open source and ready to streamline dev workflows. It’s built for scripting, automation, and direct integration with Gemini models, right from your local terminal. Think AI-assisted coding, testing, and deployment all within reach of a simple command. 🧠 Claude’s New “Artifacts” Feature Adds Collaborative Muscle: Anthropic’s Claude just got a major UX upgrade. The new Artifacts feature turns conversations into editable, persistent code or content blocks, right inside the interface. This lets you iterate, refine, and co-develop with Claude in a much more interactive way. Ideal for code, writing, and docs. 📦 JSON Imports Now Baseline Across Major Browsers: Importing JSON just got simpler; no bundler tricks required. That means you can now import data from './file.json' directly in your modules. It’s a small change with big cleanup potential for modern JavaScript projects. ☕ Jakarta EE 11 Is Official with Java 21 Support: Jakarta EE 11 has landed, marking the platform’s first feature release under a faster, six-month cadence. It adds support for Java 21, introduces a leaner Core Profile for modern workloads, and reaffirms Jakarta’s push toward cloud-native enterprise Java. This is the most forward-looking EE release in years. Eyes on the prize, not the strain 👁️ After a marathon of debugging and deployments, your eyes deserve a break. Whether you’ve been wrangling flexboxes or frameworks, this one’s for you. Try the 20-20-20 Rule: Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. This quick habit helps reduce digital eye strain, boost focus, and protect long-term eye health. 🔬 Learn the science behind it: How a simple visual reset can make a big difference. 🧘 Get a gentle reminder: Install the 20-20-20 EyeCare Chrome extension, it’ll nudge you to take breaks before the fatigue kicks in. Expert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙 🧠 GitHub CEO says AI Can’t Replace Manual Coding (Yet): In a recent interview with The New Stack, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke emphasized that AI is a productivity enhancer, not a replacement for human developers. His message echoes a growing sentiment in the dev community: large language models are powerful tools, but understanding how and why your code works still matters more than ever. ⚡️ Python devs meet ‘uv’ the new pip for lightning-fast Docker builds: Nick Janetakis dives into switching from pip to uv, a new ultra-fast Python package installer. The result? Dramatically faster Docker image builds, especially for Flask or Django apps. If you're optimizing for CI/CD speed, this swap might be your new secret weapon. 🛠️ Building AI Text Apps with React + Vite + OpenAI: This DZone tutorial breaks down how to spin up an AI-powered text analysis app using React, Vite, and the OpenAI API. Beyond the basics, it covers token management, real-time user interaction, and prompt engineering tips. Ideal if you're exploring LLM integration in frontend workflows. 🔄 Event-Driven Architectures Meet MCP for Maximum Flexibility: If you're exploring ways to simplify asynchronous workflows in complex systems, this intro to Multi-Channel Processing (MCP) shows how it can complement event-driven architectures. It's a high-level overview, but useful if you're mapping patterns for large-scale service orchestration. ⚛️ Preact Signals rethink state with zero virtual DOM fuss: Preact’s signals are gaining traction among performance-first JavaScript developers. This guide explains how they deliver fine-grained reactivity without the overhead of virtual DOM diffing or excessive state management. A strong case for rethinking the state in lean web apps. Want to be featured in WebDevPro? Share your tips or takes, we’re all ears! Workshop: Unpack OWASP Top 10 LLMs with Snyk REGISTER TODAY Join Snyk and OWASP Leader Vandana Verma Sehgal on Tuesday, July 15 at 11:00AM ET for a live session covering: ✓ The top LLM vulnerabilities ✓ Proven best practices for securing AI-generated code ✓ Snyk’s AI-powered tools automate and scale secure dev. See live demos plus earn 1 CPE credit! Advertise with us Interested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com. Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here. Packt catalogue: must read dev books📚 📘 Practical Serverless and Microservices with C# on Azure by Gabriel Baptista and Francesco Abbruzzese This book helps C# developers transition to cloud-native thinking by building scalable, event-driven systems using Azure services. It's hands-on, practical, and tailored to real-world production needs. Why pick it up: ✅ Learn how to build serverless APIs with Azure Functions ✅ Apply microservices architecture patterns in C# ✅ Master event-driven workflows using Event Grid and Service Bus Grab your copy! 🎬 That’s your scoop from the dev-verse this week.If your brain’s buzzing with ideas or feedback, hit reply. Until next week. Cheers! 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This week’s round-up packs sharp updates you’ll actually care about: 👥 State of React 2025: Redux’s Mark Erikson urges a healthier, more open React community. 🤖 Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models: Google’s fastest AI yet, with new Pro and Flash-Lite models for scale. 🎤 TanStack Start vs. Next.js: Omer Syed on bleeding edge versus battle-tested. 🔦 Misko Hevery on Angular and LLMs: Why AI is your copilot but you're still in control. Want to be featured in WebDevPro? Share your tips or takes, we’re all ears! Advertise with us Interested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com. Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here. Latest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 🐍 Python 3.14.0b3 Now Available: Python 3.14’s third beta is out and it’s not holding back. We’re getting template strings, a tail-call-optimized interpreter, and remote debugging via pdb. It also brings Sigstore-based release signing, ditching old-school PGP. If you’re tracking Python’s evolution, this beta is a serious step forward. ⚙️ Laravel 12.0.11 Ships: Laravel 12.0.11 dropped with cleaner type declarations and a tidier .gitignore. It’s one of those updates that won’t break a thing but still makes your project feel better maintained. Good news for teams using static analysis tools. It’s small, but sharp. 🌱 Spring Framework Updates: The Spring team quietly pushed out updates across its ecosystem. Web Services, Vault, Pulsar, and the Authorization Server all got maintenance releases. These are bug-fix heavy with a few minor enhancements sprinkled in. Nothing flashy—but stability is a feature, right? 🤖 Gemini 2.5 Lands: Google Brings the Heat: Gemini 2.5 is here in Pro and Flash flavors, with Flash-Lite making its debut as Google’s leanest model yet. It’s fast, cheap, and built for high-volume apps. With multimodal input and longer context windows, Google’s aiming squarely at OpenAI’s turf. The AI race just got more crowded. 🗄️ pg_auto_reindexer v15 Released: PostgreSQL’s index cleaner just leveled up. Version 15 adds support for PG15, improves worker management, and trims bloat without locking your DB. It’s exactly the kind of tool you want running quietly in the background. Smart, efficient, and unassuming. Smarter breaks: Your brain’s best friend 🧠 Your brain wasn’t built for nonstop standups and JSX. Quick, intentional breaks can sharpen focus and cut down errors. But what should you do during a break? ⏳ Stack them into a 5-minute reset - twice a day is all it takes for sharper, healthier flow. Try these dev-friendly micro-breaks: 👀 Use Time Out (macOS) or Stretchly (Windows/Linux/macOS) to get regular reminders to pause and look away. 🤲 Follow this 2-minute wrist stretch routine to ease stiffness and reduce RSI risk. Ideal between commits. 🌿 Try Headspace’s 1-minute meditation to clear your head without leaving your desk. Expert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙 ⚛️ TanStack Start vs. Next.js: Choosing the Right React Framework: In this deep technical comparison, Omer Syed explores how TanStack Start stacks up against the battle-tested Next.js for full-stack React development. While Next.js shines with its ecosystem and file-based routing, TanStack leans into cutting-edge primitives like React Server Components and deeply integrated caching. It’s a thoughtful breakdown for devs choosing between playing it safe or going fully modern, ideal for those who want performance and type safety from the start. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 State of React and the Community in 2025: Redux maintainer Mark Erikson delivers an honest reflection on the cultural and communication challenges within the React ecosystem, from maintainer burnout to unclear roadmaps. By offering constructive suggestions and much-needed transparency, the post goes beyond code. It’s a call for a healthier, more collaborative open source culture that React developers can rally around. 🎨 Frontend Magic: Beyond the Usual Tricks: Kaiwen Wang shares a sharp and elegant list of underused frontend techniques like overflow: clip subtleties, scroll-boundary-behavior, and other layout-level optimizations. These aren’t your typical tips. They are the kind of details that turn good UIs into great ones. It’s a goldmine for frontend developers who love refining the edges of performance, polish, and user experience. Developer tip of the week 💡 Debug like a Pro with console.count() Next time you’re tracing tricky code paths, skip the manual counters and console.logspam. 👉 Drop console.count('myLabel') anywhere — it auto-tracks how many times that line runs. Example: function handleClick() { console.count('Click handler called'); // your logic } You’ll spot loops, duplicate events, or unexpected calls at a glance - no setup, no cleanup. 📌 Bonus: Use console.countReset('myLabel') to reset counts between flows. Packt catalogue: must read dev books📚 📘 Mastering Restful Web Services with Java by Marián Varga, Pedro Andrade, Silvio de Morais, Thiago Bomfim, and Igor Fraga A practical, hands-on guide to designing, building, documenting, testing, and deploying RESTful APIs using modern Java frameworks. Packed with examples, this book helps backend developers create scalable, secure, and production-ready APIs using Spring Boot, OpenAPI, and beyond. 📘 Covers full REST API lifecycle from design to deployment 🧪 Includes testing strategies with AI-powered tools like ChatGPT 🔒 Focus on security, observability, and performance tuning 🐳 Hands-on with Spring Boot, OpenAPI, Docker, and more Grab your copy! Exclusive expert spotlight: Miško Hevery on Angular, LLMs, and the future of development 🎤 This week we’re back with Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and Qwik, and currently CTO at Builder.io. With a career dedicated to building fast and scalable web apps, Miško has helped shape how modern development is done at scale. In this follow-up interview, Miško shares his thoughts on where LLMs add real value, why human understanding still matters, and what developers should focus on learning today. 🎥 Watch the clip onX. Follow us on WebDevPro for more dev insights and hot takes. Would learning a framework like Angular still be relevant in the years to come, or will AI and LLMs take over most of development? No, I think at the end of the day, you still need to understand things. LLMs are like expert systems—they’re great at answering your questions, but you're still the one driving. Maybe one day, LLMs will do all the driving, but we’re far from that. Right now, you still need to be aware of what’s going on. LLMs are fantastic for helping you translate knowledge—like asking, “I know how to do this in Angular, how would I do it in React?” They’re accelerators, not replacements. Think of it this way: if no one had written content about frameworks, LLMs wouldn't be able to help. They rely on the massive body of blog posts, tutorials, and docs that already exist. You can think of them as compressing all that shared knowledge into a usable form. But you’re still in the driver’s seat. You’re still making decisions. LLMs can make you more productive—maybe even reduce the need for two extra engineers—but they don’t replace the developer. Not yet. 🎬 That’s your scoop from the dev-verse this week.If your brain’s buzzing with ideas or feedback, hit reply. Until next week. Cheers! 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From core tooling like Django, Spring, and Python getting critical fixes, to OpenAI's smoother GPT-4o and a major misstep in Meta’s AI app design, this week’s webdev round-up is packed with updates that may not make the front page, but absolutely belong in your workflow.Here’s your quick brief:🛠️ Django 5.0.6 and 4.2.13 patch packaging bugs for smoother rollouts🌱 Spring Tools 4.31.0 brings sharper AOT query insight and Spring Boot 3.5 support🐍 Python 3.13.5 fixes a Windows regression affecting extension modules🤖 GPT-4o’s June update improves memory, function calls, and multimodal stability🕵️‍♂️ Meta’s AI app stirs privacy concerns after users share personal data publicly, unknowinglyIn the Expert corner, devs debate the value of Rust compiler speed, explore the rise of passkeys in Spring Security, and unpack how prompt-first AI design could reshape tooling entirely. Read Benj Edward’s o3-pro take or see how David Crawshaw wrestles with AI agents in real workflows.📘 This week’s book pick: Practical Serverless and Microservices with C#.Whether you’re scaling with Azure Functions or simplifying microservices with .NET Aspire, this guide hits both breadth and depth. Grab your copy today!Got a tip or take? Send it our way and you might see it featured in WebDevPro!Advertise with usInterested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com.Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here.Latest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 From framework fixes to AI feature upgrades (and one major privacy red flag), this week’s updates span the tools and topics shaping modern development. Whether you're deep in Python, Spring, or just keeping an eye on AI evolutions, here’s what’s worth your attention.🛠️ Django 5.0.6 and 4.2.13 Bugfix Releases: Django has issued bugfix releases 5.0.6 and 4.2.13, which are reissues of the previous 5.0.5 and 4.2.12 versions. These updates address packaging errors and ensure the stability and reliability of the framework for ongoing projects.🌱 Spring Tools 4.31.0 Sharpens the Dev Toolkit:The latest Spring Tools update brings smoother support for Spring Boot 3.5, better code navigation in VSCode/Eclipse with hierarchical symbols, and improved AOT query visibility. Plus, it’s fully compatible with the Eclipse 2025-06 release.🐍 Python 3.13.5 Fixes Windows Regression: Python 3.13.5 has been released to address a regression affecting Windows users, specifically an issue with the pyconfig.h file in the traditional installer. This fix ensures that extension module builds specify Py_GIL_DISABLED when targeting the free-threaded runtime, maintaining compatibility and stability for developers working on Windows platforms.🤖 OpenAI GPT-4o June Update: Enhanced Functionality:OpenAI has rolled out updates to GPT-4o, focusing on improving system behavior based on user feedback. Enhancements include more reliable memory usage, improved function calling accuracy, and increased stability in multi-modal interactions. These updates aim to make GPT-4o more intuitive and effective across various tasks.🕵️‍♂️ Meta AI App Raises Privacy Concerns:Meta's AI app, launched in April 2025, has come under scrutiny for potential privacy issues. The app features a "Discover" feed where users can share their interactions with the AI chatbot. However, many users have inadvertently shared sensitive information, including personal medical issues and legal matters, often linked to identifiable Instagram profiles. Privacy advocates express concern over users' misunderstanding of the visibility and privacy of their data.Focus mode: On (ft. Beats)🎧 Your code has a rhythm. Your focus should too. This week, we’re tuning into music that powers better dev sessions:Need Deep Flow? Try Endel for AI-generated soundscapes that sync with your circadian rhythm. Think: personalized ambient playlists that cut through noise (literally).Science-Backed Beats: Brain.fm is built on neuroscience. Their “Focus” mode has been shown to improve attention within 15 minutes—perfect for getting into deep work fast.Curated for Coders: Explore Programming Music, a GitHub-curated list of playlists and albums tailored for developers. From ambient to electronic, find your perfect coding soundtrack.Because sometimes the best productivity tool... is a good pair of headphones.Expert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙What are developers really talking about right now? Whether it’s speculative AI, secure auth, or the eternal love-hate with compilers, this week’s community picks capture the pulse.🧠 Decoding AI "Reasoning" with OpenAI's o3-pro: Viktor Farcic demonstrates how AI can streamline interactions with IDPs. More intuitive than GUIs, more powerful than CLIs. From querying databases to spinning up infrastructure, we're heading toward a prompt-first future.🎙️ Exploring Passkeys with Spring Security:In a recent episode of A Bootiful Podcast, Daniel Garnier-Moiroux delves into the integration of passkeys within Spring Security applications. The discussion offers valuable insights into enhancing authentication mechanisms and the evolving landscape of web security.💰 Meta's $15 Billion Bet on Superintelligence:Meta is reportedly investing $15 billion to pursue the development of computerised "superintelligence," aiming to surpass current AI capabilities. This strategic move includes acquiring a significant stake in Scale AI and reflects Meta's ambition to regain its position in the AI race. The initiative has prompted discussions about the feasibility and ethical considerations of such advancements.🦀 Rust's Compiler Performance Debate:A thought-provoking blog post questions why Rust doesn't prioritize compiler performance more aggressively. The author suggests that while compiler speed is important, it's just one of many aspects the Rust community balances to maintain the language's robustness and safety guarantees.🤖 Programming with AI Agents:David Crawshaw shares his experiences and challenges in integrating AI agents into programming workflows. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the limitations and potential of agents, advocating for a balanced approach that combines human intuition with AI assistance.Packt catalogue plus a bonus excerpt📚📘 Practical Serverless and Microservices with C# by Gabriel Baptista and Francesco AbbruzzeseLearn how to build secure, scalable apps using Azure Functions, Container Apps, and .NET Aspire. This book shows you when to use microservices and serverless and when not to, while guiding you through real-world scenarios, cost planning, and best practices for cloud-native development.Pre-order now!Meet Gabriel...Gabriel Baptista is a tech leader with 20+ years in software development. He heads a team building retail and industrial apps, serves on a tech advisory board, teaches computer engineering, and co-founded start-ups in automation and logistics. He’s also taught software and IT at multiple institutions....and FrancescoFrancesco Abbruzzese, author of the MVC and Blazor Controls Toolkits, has championed the Microsoft web stack since ASP.NET MVC's inception. His company, Mvcct Team, builds web apps, tools, and services. He began with AI-based financial decision systems and later contributed to top-10 games like Puma Street Soccer.If you’ve worked with Kubernetes for local microservices testing, you know the setup can be heavy. In this excerpt from Practical Serverless and Microservices Applications with C# and Azure, see how the same scenario is simplified using .NET Aspire — a lighter, code-first way to orchestrate microservices locally:Using .NET Aspire in practiceIn this section, we will adapt the Kubernetes exampleto run with Aspire. As a first step, let’s copy the whole solution folder into another in a different location, so we can modify it without destroying the previous version.Then, let’s execute the following steps to prepare the overall solution:Add a new App Host project to the solution and call it CarSharingAppHost.Add a new .NET Aspire Service Defaults project to the solution and call it CarSharingServiceDefaults.Add a reference to the FakeSource, FakeDestination, and RoutesPlanning projects to the CarSharingAppHost Add a reference to the CarSharingServiceDefaults project to the FakeSource, FakeDestination, and RoutesPlanning Right-click on the CarSharingAppHost project and, in the menu that appears, select Set as Startup Project.The preceding steps prepare the solution for .NET Aspire. Now, let’s start modifying the code. As a first step, we must add service defaults to all the microservices. Therefore, let’s add builder.AddServiceDefaults(); to the program.cs file of the FakeSource, FakeDestination, and RoutesPlanning projects. Then, we must add app.MapDefaultEndpoints(), which adds health endpoints just to the program.cs file of the RoutesPlanning project, since it is the only web project that we have among our microservices. It must be placed as shown here:var app = builder.Build();app.MapDefaultEndpoints();Now, let’s remember that we added all the microservices parameters as environment variables in their Properties/launcheSettings.json file. We placed them in the Docker launch settings. Now, since these projects will not use Docker anymore while running in Aspire, we must copy all these definitions into the other launch setting profile.This is the launch settings code of the RoutesPlanning project after this change:{"profiles": {"http": {"commandName": "Project","environmentVariables": {//place here your environment variables"ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection": "Server=localhost;Database=RoutesPlanning;User Id=sa;Password=Passw0rd_;Trust Server Certificate=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true","ConnectionStrings__RabbitMQConnection": "host=localhost:5672;username=guest;password=_myguest;publisherConfirms=true;timeout=10","Messages__SubscriptionIdPrefix": "routesPlanning","Topology__MaxDistanceKm": "50","Topology__MaxMatches": "5","Timing__HousekeepingIntervalHours": "48","Timing__HousekeepingDelayDays": "10","Timing__OutputEmptyDelayMS": "500","Timing__OutputBatchCount": "10","Timing__OutputRequeueDelayMin": "5","Timing__OutputCircuitBreakMin": "4"},"dotnetRunMessages": true,"applicationUrl": "http://localhost:5212"},"Container (Dockerfile)": {……Want the full walkthrough with real code, resource config, and deployment guidance?Pre-order the book!Developer tip of the week 💡🔐 Mastering OAuth 2.0: Secure Authorization SimplifiedUnderstanding OAuth 2.0 is crucial for modern web development, especially when dealing with third-party integrations. OAuth 2.0 allows users to grant limited access to their resources without sharing credentials. For instance, enabling an application to access your profile data without exposing your password.Key components of the OAuth 2.0 flow include:Resource Owner: The user who authorizes access.Client: The application requesting access.Authorization Server: Validates the user and issues access tokens.Resource Server: Hosts the protected resources.A typical flow involves the user authorizing the client, the client receiving an authorization grant, exchanging it for an access token from the authorization server, and then accessing the resource server using that token.And that's a wrap 🎬Another week, another stack of updates, hot takes, and low-key chaos. 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The AI conversation turns introspective, with Claude getting smarter (but secretive).Here's your tl;dr:🧠 Angular 20 lands – defer blocks, zoneless rendering, and performance-first updates.🛡️ npm malware alert – your config files and SSH keys are at risk.🧱 Remix grows up – governance, RFCs, and a steadier contributor experience.🌀 Anthropic Ends Windsurf’s Claude Access in Strategic Move Against OpenAI – no more direct access.🧰 Node doubled down – Config cleanup and smarter await? We’ll take it.📈 2025 dev forecast – AI, ethics, edge-native roles, and framework face-offs.Also worth your time: Learn React Hooks, 2nd Edition dropped, just in time for React 19. Custom hooks, cleaner state logic, and the end of class components; this one’s your upgrade guide.Got a tip or take? Send it our way and you might see it featured in WebDevPro!Advertise with usInterested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com.Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here.A better way to handle vendor security reviews?If you've ever dealt with vendor onboarding or third-party cloud audits, you know how painful it can be: long email chains, stale spreadsheets, and questionnaires that don’t reflect what’s actually happening in the cloud.We recently came across CloudVRM, and it’s a refreshingly modern take on the problem.Instead of asking vendors to fill out forms or send evidence, CloudVRM connects directly to their AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. It pulls real-time telemetry every 24 hours, flags misconfigs, and maps everything to compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DORA.It’s already being used by banks and infra-heavy orgs to speed up vendor approvals by 85% and reduce audit overhead by 90%.Worth checking out if you're building or maintaining systems in regulated environments, or just tired of spreadsheet security.Watch the demoLatest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 Frameworks leveled up, malware took aim, and AI stirred the pot (again). Here's what the web dev world chewed on this week.🧠 Angular 20 launches with smarter builds and zoneless progress: Angular’s latest update is all about performance and clean code vibes. With new defer blocks for surgical lazy loading and a move toward a zoneless future (yes, finally), it’s clear the Angular Renaissance isn’t just marketing.🟢 Double Node.js release day: config gets cleaner, await using expands: Node.js dropped not one but two updates recently. Version 22.16.0 introduces experimental support for node.config.json, paving the way for simpler, centralized project configs. Meanwhile, 24.1.0 builds on await usingsupport, pushing Node deeper into structured resource management territory. 🔗22.16.0 release notes🔗24.1.0 release notes🌀 No More Claude for Windsurf; Anthropic Protects Its Models from Rival Ecosystem: Claude now browses the web, but if you were hoping to peek behind the curtain, tough luck. Anthropic says its Windsurf stack won’t be shared, especially not with OpenAI. “Odd,” they said. Strategic, we read between the lines.🛡️ Node.js devs under fire; npm malware strikes again: Installing random npm packages without reading the docs? What is this, the wild west of 2015?A new polymorphic malware campaign is harvesting sensitive files from Node environments. Your .npmrc and SSH keys are not safe. Audit those dependencies or risk getting owned. Literally.📢 Remix opens up: new governance, more community control: Remix is going full open-source adulting. The framework now has RFCs, working groups, and a governance model that invites more voices to the table. Translation: fewer surprises, more stability, and maybe fewer tweets from angry contributors.Expert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙The dev community’s looking ahead: Some cloning apps for fun, others predicting frameworks, ethics, and AI identity crises. 2025’s shaping up to be less about syntax, more about choices. And yes, vibe shifts included.🎥 CLI? GUI? Try LLM: Viktor Farcic demonstrates how AI can streamline interactions with IDPs. More intuitive than GUIs, more powerful than CLIs. From querying databases to spinning up infrastructure, we're heading toward a prompt-first future.🔭 The 2025 web dev forecast: AI, edge, and... ethics?: Expect more AI, fewer servers, and a rising need for ethical tech decisions. It’s a future full of promise and job titles that don’t exist yet. Edge-native empathy engineer, anyone?🧱 Framework face-off: what to keep an eye on in 2025: From React’s continued dominance to the rise of Qwik and Astro, the framework battlefield is getting crowded. The message? Choose wisely or you’ll be explaining your pick in every team meeting for the next year.🌀 Stack Overflow’s AI gamble and the dev identity crisis: Stack Overflow is leaning hard into AI to stay relevant, but in doing so, it might be redefining what it means to be a “developer.” Is AI the new stack, or just another tool in the belt? Existential crisis loading...📈 Web trends devs can’t ignore in 2025: Think accessibility-first, no-code/low-code evolution, and AI-as-co-pilot. TL;DR: If your stack isn’t flexing with user-centric design, you might be the bottleneck.Packt catalogue plus a bonus excerpt📚📘 Learn React Hooks, 2nd Edition by Daniel BuglReact 19 is here, and with it comes a sharper, cleaner, more powerful Hooks story. If you’re still reaching for useStateand calling it a day, this book is your next upgrade.Author Daniel Bugl walks you through everything, from building your first Hook-based app to writing custom Hooks, handling form actions, and replacing class components like it’s 2018 calling.Grab your copy!About the authorDaniel Bugl is a full-stack developer, product designer, and entrepreneur specializing in web technologies. He holds a BSc in business informatics and an MSc in data science from TU Wien. A contributor to open source and an active React community member, he founded TouchLay, a hardware/software startup helping businesses showcase their offerings. He’s also served as a technical advisor and full-stack dev for large enterprises and the Austrian government, building citizen services and more.Here’s an excerpt from the book that shows how to make state shareable, clean, and debounced, using a custom Hook that syncs with the URL without spamming history.Creating the Debounced History State HookLet’s now get started extracting the code from the CreatePost component into a DebouncedHistory State Hook:1. Copy the Chapter12_3 folder to a new Chapter12_4 folder by executing the following command: $ cp -R Chapter12_3 Chapter12_42. Open the new Chapter12_4 folder in VS Code.3. Create a new src/hooks/debouncedHistoryState.js file.4. Inside it, import the following: import { useState, useEffect } from 'react' import { useDebouncedCallback } from 'use-debounce' import { useHistoryState } from '@uidotdev/usehooks'5. Define a function that accepts an initial state and a timeout value for the debounce: export function useDebouncedHistoryState(initialState, timeout) {6. Now, define the History State Hook: const { state, set, undo, redo, clear, canUndo, canRedo } = useHistoryState(initialState)7. Next, define a State Hook for the actively edited content: const [content, setContent] = useState(initialState)8. Then, define a Debounced Callback Hook that will set the value of the History State Hook: const debounced = useDebouncedCallback((value) => set(value), timeout)9. Add the Effect Hook that we had before in the CreatePost component: useEffect(() => { debounced.cancel() setContent(state) }, [state, debounced])Remember, this Effect Hook is used to sync the History State back into the actively editedcontent state, meaning that it will change the content of the textbox whenever we triggerthe undo, redo, or clear functionality.10. Now, define a handler function which sets the content state and starts the debouncedcallback: function handleContentChange(e) { const { value } = e.target setContent(value)debounced(value)}11. Finally, return all the values and functions we need from the Hook:return { content, handleContentChange, undo, redo, clear, canUndo,canRedo }}We now have a drop-in replacement for the Debounced History State functionality, which is used in the CreatePostcomponent, so let’s implement it!AI in the spotlight 🔦🤖 Even Sundar Pichai’s vibe-coding nowVibe coding? You know it, you’ve seen it, you might already be doing it. Now Sundar Pichai’s officially on board. The Google CEO revealed he’s been spending time riffing with AI tools, coding by description, not syntax. If the guy running Google is vibe-coding, safe to say it’s more than just a phase.Developer tip of the week 💡🛠️ Don’t sleep on SCIMIf you’re building anything that touches user management for enterprise clients, SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s table stakes. This spec handles user provisioning, deprovisioning, and role updates automatically via APIs. Translation: no more janky sync scripts or angry IT teams. It’s the kind of protocol you won’t notice... until you desperately need it. Learn it before your biggest customer asks why you don’t support it.Keep a dev journal🌿Logging your daily wins, bugs, and lessons isn't just for retros, it's for you. A dev journal helps you track progress, spot patterns, and level up faster.Get started:📘 You should keep a developer’s journal – Stack Overflow🛠️ Flow by Invide – Minimalist dev journaling tool📋 Developer Brain Template – Notion MarketplaceStart small: jot down a few bullet points at the end of each day. Your future self will thank you!And that's a wrap 🎬Not every week reshapes your workflow but this one nudged the edges. 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Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for DevelopersAdvertise with Us|Sign Up to the Newsletter @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} }WebDevPro #93: AI Tools, Java 25, and TypeScript Goes Turbo 🌍🔍Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for DevelopersWeb Devs: Turn Your Knowledge Into IncomeBuild the knowledge base that will enable you to collaborate AI for years to come💰 Competitive Pay Structure⏰ Ultimate Flexibility🚀 Technical Requirements (No AI Experience Needed)Weekly payouts + remote work: The developer opportunity you've been waiting for!The flexible tech side hustle paying up to $50/hourAPPLY NOWHi ,This week’s stack is fast, fearless, and full of firsts. Microsoft’s orchestrating smarter updates, Nova’s giving JavaScript a Rusty reboot, and TypeScript Native is blowing devs away with 10x faster builds. From minimalist Go setups to AI tools that build apps on the fly, this drop is packed.Here’s what’s shifting the stack:🪐 Nova lands – Rust-built, JS-ready, 70% test262 and flying.⚡ TypeScript Native preview – 10x faster builds, written in Go.🧠 Local-first apps are trending – Rethinking dev with fast, private tools.🛠️ Go devs ditch DI frameworks – Redowan says skip the extras because Go’s got this.🔧 Miško Hevery on junior devs – Show what you’ve built; buzzwords won’t cut it.🔮 Perplexity Labs: AI-generated charts, tables, and web apps in seconds.Plus, a must-read for Rust devs: Rust Web Programming (3rd Edition) is your hands-on guide to async, WebAssembly, microservices, and deployment in the real world.Want to be featured in WebDevPro? Share your tips or takes—we’re all ears!Advertise with usInterested in reaching our audience? Reply to this email or write to kinnaric@packt.com.Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities here.Latest news: what's new in web development? 🧑‍💻 The dev world doesn’t stop buzzing, and neither do we. From lightning-fast TypeScript previews to Java’s latest brewing batch and a Rusty new JS engine, here’s what’s hot and happening this week. Stay sharp, stay curious.🧠 Skyvern’s Web Bench Is Here to Shake Up AI Testing: Skyvern launched Web Bench, a rich dataset with 5,750 tasks across 452 real websites. It tests both “read” and “write” actions, mimicking real user behavior more closely than ever. Skyvern 2.0 nailed the “write” tasks like downloads, form-filling, and more.🪐 Nova: A Rusty New Star in the JS Engine Galaxy: Say hi to Nova, an experimental JavaScript + WebAssembly engine written entirely in Rust. Built on data-oriented design principles, it’s aiming for efficiency and modularity. Already passing 70% of test262, it’s one to watch in engine land.🪟 Windows Update Just Leveled Up: Microsoft is turning Windows Update into a full app orchestration platform. Now third-party apps can tap into eco-friendly scheduling and unified update handling. Currently in private preview, but expect broader rollout soon.☕ Java 25: The Brew Gets Stronger: The upcoming JDK 25 introduces 17 new features, including Shenandoah’s generational GC. It also brings PEM support for cryptographic keys and fresh memory tools. Set to launch in September as the next long-term support release.⚡ TypeScript Native Preview: 10x Faster, Written in Go: Microsoft drops TypeScript Native, a reimagined toolchain powered by Go. Expect a 10x speed boost on most projects. No joke! You can try it now via nightly builds or the VS Code extension.Last Day! Get $149 Worth of Bestsellers for Just $18!These 4 bestselling titles are worth $149 on their own. Grab them along with 18 more must-have C# and .NET books in our Mega Bundle for just $18.Don’t miss out. The offer ends tonight!Expert corner: what's the web community talking about?🎙Got a finger on the pulse of dev Twitter? We do. From AI pair programming to local-first revolutions and Go’s no-frills philosophy, the community is buzzing. Here’s what everyone’s talking (and tweeting) about this week.🌀 Web Design Déjà Vu: Are We Back in 1997?: Cybercultural dives into the comeback of ’90s web vibes with centered layouts and deliberate simplicity. It’s a subtle takedown of today’s heavy, overengineered websites that often forget the basics. If this got your gears turning, you’ll love our upcoming release: Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS!🧠 Local-First Development is Stealing the Spotlight: Cloud fatigue? You’re not alone. Local-first apps are making a comeback, where your data lives with you.Fast, private, resilient. Developers are buzzing: what if the cloud is just a sidekick, not the star?🛠️ Go Devs Are Ditching DI Frameworks: Redowan’s spicy take? Most Go projects don’t need DI frameworks at all. With Go’s clean interfaces and structure, doing it by hand just feels right. It’s minimalist engineering at its finest, and the dev world’s nodding along..🧪 Picking Your Next Programming Language (Without the Hype): Michael Lynch drops a brainy guide for devs itching to try something new. No trend-chasing here. Just simplicity, uniqueness, and impact. It’s the nudge you need to break out of your language bubble.🤖 Real Devs Are Pairing with LLMs: Senior engineers are teaming up with AI for debugging, planning, and code reviews. Peter Mbanugo’s piece shows how LLMs are already solid dev teammates. It’s not the future. It’s happening now, in your favorite IDE.🌐 Spring Devs, Say Hello to Smarter API Calls: Spring WebClient is getting major love for async, non-blocking API magic. It’s sleek, reactive, and perfect for scaling microservices like a pro. Less boilerplate, more control. What’s not to love?Packt catalogue: must read dev books📚📘 Rust Web Programming – Third Edition by Maxwell FlittonA hands-on guide to modern web development with Rust, covering async, microservices, nanoservices, WebAssembly, and real-world deployment strategies.📚 Comprehensive intro to full-stack Rust web dev🧠 Covers WebAssembly, Axum, native TLS, SurrealDB🏗️ Emphasizes microservice and nanoservice architectures🛠️ Hands-on with real projects and cloud deployment Grab your copy!Under the Radar 🔍Tiny tools. Big vibes.Not on your radar yet? These gems are quietly leveling up developer workflows, from whiteboarding to wireframes. They’re the kind of tools you’ll wish you’d discovered sooner.🧠 RegexLearn: An interactive regex tutorial that builds up your skills visually. Great for beginners who are tired of trial-and-error and ready to really get it.✏️ tldraw: A collaborative whiteboard made with developers in mind. Draw mockups, diagrams, or user flows and export them with dev-ready clarity.🔧 ToolHunt: A curated hub of underrated tools for developers, designers, and indie hackers. Think Product Hunt, but more focused and less noisy.👤 UI Faces: Need realistic avatars for UI mocks, team pages, or placeholder content? Access real human faces that feel authentic, not like stock photos.Exclusive expert spotlight: Miško Hevery on Junior Devs, AI & Making It Real 🎤This week’s expert spotlight features Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and Qwik, and currently CTO at Builder.io. With a career dedicated to building fast and scalable web apps, Miško has helped shape how modern development is done at scale. In our latest chat, he shares what still matters for junior devs in the age of AI—why LLMs are just tools, not shortcuts, and why building real things is still the strongest signal you can send. Spoiler: it’s not about how you build, but that you build at all.🎥 Watch the clip onX. Follow us on WebDevPro for more dev insights and hot takes.There's been like a growing narrative about, junior level roles probably being taken away. What kind of career advice would you want to give newcomers who are just starting out with web development in this age of AI and LLMs?The advice hasn’t changed: when you walk into an interview, what people want to see is what you’ve built.It doesn’t matter if you did it the hard way or used LLMs—what matters is that you executed. Because building isn't just coding. It’s goal-setting, problem-solving, and figuring out the path of least resistance.If you're just starting out, contribute to open source or build something valuable—even if no one uses it. Show that you can make something real.Ideas are cheap. Execution is the hard part. Can you persist, ask the right questions, and keep pushing when things get hard? That’s what really makes you stand out.Machine Learning Summit 2025Level up your skills with exclusive insights from top ML experts! 40% OFF if you book now.🎤 LLMs AMA with Sebastian RaschkaAsk your most pressing questions about large language models📈 GPTs for Time Series with Khuyen TranDiscover how to bring generative models to real-world forecasting.💡Learn directly from Luca Massaron, Thomas Nield, and 20+ ML experts in a power-packed lineup of live sessions, workshops, and AMAs.Use Code: EARLY40REGISTER NOW AND GET 40% OFFAI in the spotlight 🔦🤖 Perplexity Labs Drops – AI That Builds Charts, Apps & Answers 📊 From questions to interactive apps in seconds. 🧠 Acts like a 24/7 answering machine with built-in data visualization smarts. 🛠️ Makes AI more hands-on for devs, teams, and solo builders alike.Developer tip of the week 💡📊 Use console.table() to debug like a bossInstead of cluttering your console with objects or arrays, console.table(data) gives you a clean, sortable table view.Perfect for debugging API responses, datasets, or arrays of objects at a glance.And that's a wrap 🎬That’s your scoop from the dev-verse this week. Radar scans complete, tools tested, and tabs (mostly) cleared.If your brain’s buzzing with ideas or feedback, hit reply. We love a good code rant.Until next week, ship smart, sip coffee, and stay curious!Cheers!Kinnari Chohan,Editor-in-chiefSUBSCRIBE FOR MORE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND!*{box-sizing:border-box}body{margin:0;padding:0}a[x-apple-data-detectors]{color:inherit!important;text-decoration:inherit!important}#MessageViewBody a{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}p{line-height:inherit}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{mso-hide:all;display:none;max-height:0;overflow:hidden}.image_block img+div{display:none}sub,sup{font-size:75%;line-height:0}#converted-body .list_block ol,#converted-body .list_block ul,.body [class~=x_list_block] ol,.body [class~=x_list_block] ul,u+.body .list_block ol,u+.body .list_block ul{padding-left:20px} @media (max-width: 100%;display:block}.mobile_hide{min-height:0;max-height:0;max-width: 100%;overflow:hidden;font-size:0}.desktop_hide,.desktop_hide table{display:table!important;max-height:none!important}} @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} } @media only screen and (max-width: 100%;} #pad-desktop {display: none !important;} }