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Issue #659  (Frameworks, AI Tools, Git/CLI)03/05/26


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Web Frameworks

Homarr β€” A modern and easy to use dashboard with 30+ integrations,10K+ icons built in, out-of-the-box authentication, and drag and drop configuration with no YAML.

Nuxt Commerce β€” A high-performance, server-rendered e-commerce app built with Nuxt and Shopify with features like Nuxt UI, image and scripts optimization, hybrid rendering, SEO, and more.

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Very Good Components β€” A curated collection of HTML UI components ready to copy and paste, and searchable and filterable by category.

8bitcn/ui β€” A component library styled in an 8-bit retro theme, like something out of a 1980s video game, installable via a code distribution platform and with an optional MCP server for your IDE.

8bitcn

Oat β€” An ultra-lightweight HTML and CSS, semantic UI component library with zero dependencies, no build or dev complexity, just include the tiny CSS and JS files.

Shoogle β€” A Google-like directory that lets you search for shadcn blocks from by keyword, with results sourced from various Pro and free libraries.

Catalyst Starter Kit β€” A super-opinionated starter kit for Next.js with Bun.js, Prisma, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Biome, Auth.js, React Email, and lots more.

gridsome-electron-boilerplate β€” A starter project for creating projects with Electron 8+ and Gridsome (the Jamstack framework for Vue).
 

AI Tools, LLMs, etc.

json-render β€” A generative UI framework that enables you to create dynamic, personalized UIs from prompts, with predefined components and actions for safe, predictable JSON-based output.

Gemini CLI β€” A terminal tool powered by Gemini 3 to query and edit large codebases, generate apps from images or PDFs, and automate complex workflows.

Design Prompts β€” A set of prebuilt AI prompts that you can drop into any AI assistant and it will generate the required UI, which is shown as examples on the page.

Design Prompts

Pi Monorepo β€” A set of AI agent tool that includes a coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI and web UI libraries, Slack bot, and vLLM pods.

Learn VS Code β€” 346 pages. 450+ screenshots. 150+ tips. EPUB and PDF formats. Learn to customize and use the native features of Visual Studio Code, the world's most popular code editor.   SPONSORED 

spacecake β€” A desktop app for Claude Code that combines an integrated terminal, visual markdown editor, and live task tracking, so you can run agents, write specs, and see what's happening in one place.

agent-browser β€” A browser automation CLI designed for AI agents that produces compact text output that minimizes context usage and has a fast Rust CLI with Node.js fallback.

Token Limit β€” An npm-based CLI tool that lets you to monitor how many tokens your code and configs consume in AI tools, so you can set budgets and get alerts when limits are hit.

mcp-lite β€” A small, fetch-first implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server APIs, providing a ground-up rewrite of the TypeScript MCP SDK. that keeps only the pieces you need to stand up a server.
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Git, GitHub, and CLI Tools

FrankenTUI β€” A minimal, high-performance terminal UI kernel with diff-based rendering, inline mode, and RAII terminal cleanup.

gh-space-shooter β€” Enter a GitHub user name and choose an "animation strategy" and this tool will generate an animated GIF that displays the user's GitHub contribution graph as a Space Invaders-like game.

Swatchify β€” A fast, cross-platform CLI tool that extracts dominant colors from images using k-means clustering, available for Go, as a JS library, or 

Learn VS Code β€” 346 pages. 450+ screenshots. 150+ tips. EPUB and PDF formats. Learn to customize and use the native features of Visual Studio Code, the world's most popular code editor.     SPONSORED 

GitNexus β€” Drop in a GitHub repo or ZIP file, and this tool will generate an interactive knowledge graph with a built-in Graph RAG Agent, useful for code exploration.

YEN β€” A terminal-first IDE with first-class features like native speech-to-text, email, calendaring, 460+ stylish themes, custom notifications, power dev tools, and more.

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cli-spinners β€” A collection of 70+ spinners for use in the terminal, available in a list as a JSON file, which you can use wherever you want.

GitHub Agentic Workflows β€” A Go-based tool that lets you write agentic workflows in natural language markdown, and run them in GitHub Actions.

Lix β€” An embeddable version control system that enables Git-like features such as history, versions (branches), diffs, or blame for any file format.

Commercial Apps & Classifieds

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Seenode – Connect your repo, configure the build, and deploy. You get SSL and a URL out of the box.
AI Accounting Daily β€“ Your daily update on tools, trends, news, and smarter workflows.   AD 
Morph – A platform to build better coding agents, trusted in production by hundreds of companies.
Skiper UI – A collection of 100+ not-so-common, single-file components for shadcn/ui.
VSCode.Email β€“ The only newsletter in the world focused on the world's most popular code editor.    AD 
Parse – A tool to turn any website into a structured API with a single request.
Veeso – An AI-powered tool that turns raw copy into production-ready designs with no design skills.

A Social Post for Thought

It seems like this would be a good offer on the surface, but going down this road would likely cause a developer or engineer to fall behind.
 
Taking a higher paying job that doesn't use AI, on X
 

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Before I Go...

Apparently the folks at the Syntax podcast have started a "March Madness" tournament involving CSS, called March Mad CSS. Finally something new in development that AI can't touch!

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Keep tooling,
Louis
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@LouisLazaris