Web Tools Weekly
Tools for Web Developers

Issue #615  (Testing Tools, JS Lib Plugins, React Native)05/01/25


Advertisement

Join 20,000+ QAs & Devs at <break>point 2025!
Explore how leading teams are using AI to transform testing at <break>point 2025—BrowserStack’s flagship virtual conference, happening May 14–15.

Learn from experts like Anu Bharadwaj (Atlassian), Michael Bolton, Christian Bromann, Joe Colantonio and many more as they dive deep into AI-driven testing, accessibility, automation strategies, and more.

Breakpoint by BrowserStack

It’s free, virtual, and packed with hands-on workshops, real-world strategies, and global networking.

Register Now for Free! →

 

Testing & Debugging Tools

Benchi — A minimal benchmarking framework built in Go, designed to help you measure the performance of your applications and infrastructure via the CLI.

Sparrow — An API development buddy that can help you test, debug, and distribute better APIs while collaborating with your colleagues and making you a better programmer.

Opiuchi — A Mac app that allows you to set up a localhost SSL proxy in seconds, with automatic self-signed SSL certificates, nginx config, and proxy server config.

Breakpoint by BrowserStack — Learn how leaders from Atlassian, Amazon, Walmart, etc. are developing smarter, faster, and more inclusive testing practices with AI driven workflows. Streaming on May 14th and 15th!   SPONSORED 

Shortest — An AI-powered natural language end-to-end testing framework that's built on Playwright and has AI-powered test execution using Anthropic Claude API, GitHub integration, and Email validation with Mailosaur.

Font Tester — A Chrome extension that enables you to live test and compare 1500+ fonts via Google Fonts on any web page.

Font Tester

web-platform-tests dashboard — A customizable dashboard that displays results for the web-platform-tests, or WPT, which are a group of test suites for many web platform specifications.

vitest-profiler — A Vite plugin to profile Vitest test runs while avoiding configuration and Node.js process modifications that can be tedious to repeat each time.

Load Balancer — A basic implementation of a load balancer for the CLI, implemented in Node.js and Express.

JS Library Tools & Plugins

PaneForge — A Set of Svelte components that make it easy to create accessible and customizable resizable panes in your Svelte apps.

Tzezar's Datagrid — A powerful, flexible (headless), and developer-friendly data grid component built with Svelte 5 and shadcn-svelte, and is able to easily handle large datasets.

Tzezar's Datagrid

pinia-plugin-state-persistence — A Pinia plugin for universal state persistence across synchronous and asynchronous storage systems, for Vue apps.

Learn Full-stack Development with Cursor — 7 hours of video material teaching you to build a micro SaaS from the ground up using Cursor IDE, Vercel, shadcn/ui, Windsurf, and more.   SPONSORED 

NgRx Toolkit — A set of extensions for Angular's NgRx Signals Store, which includes enables Devtools, Redux, Storage Sync, and Redux Connector.

Remix Auth TOTP — A time-based one-time password (TOTP) authentication strategy for Remix auth that implements email-code and magic-link authentication in your application.

SvelteKit-Design-Pattern — A template for SvelteKit projects that uses an MVC pattern to organize and scale SvelteKit projects when integrating with various external services or databases.

zustand-mutative — A mutative middleware for Zustand to simplify the handling of immutable data in a mutable way, allowing you to use immutable state more conveniently.

remix-blog-mdx — A template that uses Vite to process MDX files in your Remix app.
Advertisement

Cut Costs. Not Corners.
Economic pressure is rising,  and doing more with less has become the new reality. But surviving a downturn isn’t about stretching yourself thinner; it’s about protecting what matters most. 

Belay

BELAY matches leaders with fractional, cost-effective support – exceptional Executive Assistants, Accounting Professionals, and Marketing Assistants – tailored to your unique needs. When you're buried in low-level tasks, you lose the focus, energy, and strategy it takes to lead through challenging times. 

BELAY helps you stay ready for whatever comes next.

Download the Guide Now →


 

React Native & Mobile Tools

Expo Passkey — A Better Auth plugin that enables secure, passwordless authentication in Expo applications through native biometric authentication.

React Native Package Checker — An online tool that lets you check your React Native packages for New Architecture (i.e. the new "bridgeless" architecture) compatibility in seconds, via search, upload, or paste your package.json.

Lynx — A family of technologies enabling developers to use their existing web skills to create truly native UIs for both mobile and web from a single codebase.

DevCleaner — A Mac cleaner tool for Xcode developers, to reclaim gigabytes of storage used for various Xcode caches, tested with macOS 14.x and Xcode 15.x.

GitHub Copilot Beginner to Pro — 8 sections and 7 hours of course material covering how to use GitHub Copilot and related tools to build apps, write unit tests, generate documentation, and more.   SPONSORED 

cali — An AI agent for building React Native apps by taking all the utilities and functions of a React Native CLI and exposing them as tools to an LLM.

cali

react-native-fast-confetti — A fast confetti animation library for React Native written using the Skia Atlas API.

Expo Router Form Components — Template and components (including forms) for Expo Router apps that are generally optimized for iOS, dark mode, and servers.

react-native-video — A video component for React Native that provides a video component to render media content like videos and streams.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

These are commercial apps, affiliate links, PPC ads, and paid classifieds. Buy a Classified here.
a0.dev – An AI-powered prompt to build mobile apps and UIs with a text description.
VSCode.Email – The latest tools, tips, and news on the world's most popular code editor.   AD 
SemanticMath – Software components and technologies to power e-learning in mathematics.
Datashelter – Automated server backups with quick setup and the highest security standards.
Techpresso – Join 250,000+ free daily readers for the latest AI and tech news, tools, and insights.    AD 
Dock – A Mac and iOS tool that enables complete control over App Store optimization and visibility.
UIlicious – An all-in-one platform to automate, run, and schedule cross-browser tests at scale.

A Social Post for Thought

It's always interesting to see popular brands interacting with one another on social media. This Sour Patch Kids post on Instagram takes the cake in this category. It seems like every popular candy, food, and game brand commented on the post, which was a joke about dropping the "sour" from their name.
 
Sour Patch Kids without the Sour
 

Send Me Your Tools!

Made something? Reply to this email or send links via Direct Message on X or via chat on Bluesky (details here). No tutorials or articles, please. If you have any suggestions for improvement or corrections, feel free to reply to this email.
 

Before I Go...

Inifinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible (and interactively usable!) from the comfort of a web browser.

Thanks to all for subscribing and reading!

Keep tooling,
Louis
webtoolsweekly.com
@LouisLazaris