Hello Folks and Happy New Year
I hope this email finds you all well also a good, happy new year
Frontend
A good article on CSS weightage issues to CSS specificity, this aticle quitely explains how CSS is applied in the browser through the preferences given among ID, class and pseudo-types.
React: Grab a good open source module that grabs the website element to provide better and accurate context to the AI LLM applications, quite usefull tool.
Quite a good read on creating a simple, effective dynamic website without JavaScript by using SVG, yeah SVG😁
The team behind react-query have launched a new framework for building full-stack applications using Tanstack Router and Vite as the SSR framework, named it as Tanstack Start
Email is cute, SMS are too annoying so try Push notification both in client and backend using Pushary. I might add the package to our buildsaas.dev starter repository.
Backend
Supabase for Platforms, Supabase have launched the platforms feature where developers can directly manage clients' projects on their behalf within supabase, a much-needed way to run multiple supabase projects at the same time.
Anthropic, the team behind Claude have released new Opus 4.5, and developers are actually going crazy about this model. The blog demonstrates the detailed comparison as well as provides an example of how Opus solves puzzle games.
AI agent for databases, Reinder: Cursor for databases, works on Windows, Mac, and VsCode.
Payments and Subscriptions are common in full-stack applications, and developers often need a Stripe or Paypal alternative, so we have Paddle, Lemon Squeezy and Polar for internationaldevelopers, and for Indian developers, to integrate UPI JustPay and Cashfree, along with Razorpay, can be a good option
Docling a opensource github repository that helps to transform, convert and parse your documents for AI agents and LLM models.
Imagine creating a file name trigger in the source code and running npm trigger.dev dev and all the tasks mentioned in the folder are run automatically on the clouds, including CRON jobs, automations, workflows, video transcribing and other backend jobs like deep research. Check trigger.dev
Trending AI agents need a backend automation system, and Inngest solves that problem, running workflows set queues and trace error.
Testsprite: AI agent testing and automation tool/SDK that provides in cursor and vscode AI agents to test the web application.
Building AI LLM application is further more easy in 2025 in nextjs one can use server side API and Google Genai npm module for Gemini LLM model. Furthermore, Vercel AI SDK is a good choice for AI LLM provider works with claude, gemini and openai.
Miscellaenous
Some YouTube videos for learning AI agent development, N8N agent development, Cursor development, AI UI/UX design generator
iHateReading provides the top Github trending repositories fetched instantaneously. Do check it out.
That would be good and enough for today
See you in the next one
Shrey