GenAI Helps Frontend Developers Create Components

When developer and attorney Julia Machado developed websites for WordPress, she found an ecosystem of plug-ins for the open source PHP-based content management system, but when she tried to find the same in the JavaScript world, there just wasn’t anything similar.

She wanted to apply the microfrontend approach — which architects web applications by breaking them down into smaller, independent components — to JavaScript web development.

So Machado started WebCrumbs, an open source solution for creating components for the JavaScript…