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Here's the latest newsletter sent on 2025-05-15.

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Interesting tools

Each week we review 2—3 of the most interesting developer tools. Here's what we featured this week.

Makepad

Rust cross-platform UI framework.

What we like

Build application UIs for the web, mobile, and desktop. Supports web + Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android. Uses a declarative DSL. Built using custom shaders and supports 2D, 3D, VR, AR. Plenty of examples. Can be live-styled without recompiling during development.

What we don't like

API docs aren’t available. Built-in UI components don’t feel native on each supported platform.

Aberdeen

Reactive JS UI framework.

What we like

Build UIs in pure TS/JS without a virtual DOM. No build steps. Includes client-side routing, optimistic UI updates, component CSS, transition effects. Zero dependencies with a small (5kb) minimized size. Interactive tutorial docs.

What we don't like

Would benefit from more examples showing how to build real applications with data fetching.

Betas and previews

Here's the interesting beta and early access releases we featured this week.

  • Basecoat

    Shadcn UI library without React.

    Developer Tools

  • Rybbit

    Open source analytics.

    Misc

  • PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1

    Database.

    Database

  • Hyper

    Standards first React alternative.

    Developer Tools

  • GoVisual

    HTTP request visualizer.

    Developer Tools

  • Void

    Open source AI IDE.

    Developer Tools

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