Web Tools Weekly
Tools for Web Developers

Issue #626  (Frameworks, Build Tools, Jamstack)07/17/25


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Web Frameworks

MCP Boilerplate — A remote Cloudflare MCP server boilerplate with user authentication and Stripe for paid tools, allowing you to create your own remote MCP server on Cloudflare with user login and payment options.

Blocks — A collection of 50+ ready-to-use, professionally designed UI blocks made with shadcn/ui, with live responsive testing previews for all the components.

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Spectrum UI — A set of 250+ free and open source animated components and effects built with Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind, and Motion for animation.

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A Template — A resource for exploring and downloading free website templates across 20+ categories including product, business, blogs, portfolios, ecommerce, and admin dashboards.

bhvr — A full-stack TypeScript monorepo starter with shared types, using Bun, Hono, Vite, and React, built to enable you to deploy your client or server in any environment while also keeping type safety.

Basecoat — A component library built with Tailwind that works with any web stack, allowing you to have the benefits of shadcn/ui but with none of the React.

Ant Design Web3 — A set of efficient React components for building decentralized apps (dApps) with crypto wallet connection, flexible theme customization, and compatibility with different blockchains.

Build Tools, Bundlers, etc.

app-that-builds-apps — An AI app generator powered by Expo Router and AI SDK that can build truly native apps and websites.

Astra — A fast, reliable, and easy-to-use JavaScript/TypeScript-to-exe compiler for Windows apps, producing an average .exe file size of ~70-80MB.

eslint-plugin-oxlint — An ESLint plugin that turns off all rules already supported by oxlint, the popular Rust-based tool set.

di-wise — A lightweight and flexible dependency injection library for JavaScript and TypeScript, built on ECMAScript Stage 3 Decorators, with no dependencies.

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react-strict-dom — A JavaScript library, used by Meta to render React web interfaces on React Native, that defines a subset of React DOM and Web APIs that render components on both web and native platforms, with the look and feel of the host platform.

react-strict-dom

Bingo — A repository templating engine that allows developers to create reusable templates that describe the files and settings for projects, as well as configurable, type-safe options for customizations.

reproduce — A library that determines whether or not a package can be reproduced from it's referenced repository metadata and validates repository information against package.json if the package referenced lives on a registry.
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CMS's, Jamstack Tools, etc.

Eleventy Excellent — An easy-to-use Eleventy starter based on a template called Cube Boilerplate that has features like accessible navigation, image optimization, resource fetching, syntax highlighting, and lots more.

Typemill — A self-hosted open source CMS made for user manuals, documentation, and knowledge bases, allowing you to create HTML doc sites and e-books with Markdown.

Umbraco — An open source, flexible, and editor-friendly .NET-powered CMS, allowing you to integrate with your favorite services to help launch a website tailored to your specific needs.

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AstroPaper — A minimal, responsive, accessible, and SEO-friendly Astro blog theme with fuzzy search, sitemap, RSS feed, light/dark modes, type-safe Markdown, and more.

Eleventy LibDoc — An easy to use and content focused starter project for Eleventy for building responsive documentation sites, with accessibility built in, along with some useful vanilla JavaScript components (search, nav, etc).

Eleventy LibDoc

Blot — A website generator that turns a folder into a website, providing a simple way to publish by just dragging and dropping your files.

FreeWeb.me — A free, no-code, drag-and-drop website builder with pre-made content blocks and more than 100 themes that are all customizable.

PicoSSG — An "anti-framework" static site generator with no configuration needed, based on 1 to 1 file mapping powered by Markdown and Nunjucks for templating.

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Oxbow UI – Clean, responsive, and easy to customize UI components and layouts built with Tailwind.
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