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      <title>Stop building backends for simple contact forms 🛑</title>
      <dc:creator>Umair Ashraf</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/umair_ashraf_3fc3dabc723d/stop-building-backends-for-simple-contact-forms-1jne</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Tired of spinning up a Node server or wrestling with PHP just to make your static site's "Contact Me" form work?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I built CodeFreeForm to fix exactly that. It's a completely free, serverless API that routes form submissions directly to your inbox.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why developers love it:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🚀 Zero Signup: No accounts or dashboards. Just enter your email and get an access key.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🔒 100% Private: We don't store your data. Submissions act as a strict passthrough to your email.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;💻 Framework Agnostic: Works with a plain HTML &lt;/p&gt; or JSON for React/Vue/Angular.

&lt;p&gt;🛡️ Spam Protection: Lock your keys to specific domains.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Skip the backend boilerplate on your next portfolio or landing page. Get your free key in seconds and get back to building the fun stuff!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;👉 Try it here: &lt;a href="https://codefreeform.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;CodeFreeForm.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>I built a lightweight jQuery Tree Select plugin 🌳</title>
      <dc:creator>Umair Ashraf</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/umair_ashraf_3fc3dabc723d/i-built-a-lightweight-jquery-tree-select-plugin-4b9c</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;While working on HTML/jQuery projects, I needed a simple way to create a tree-style dropdown select without adding heavy dependencies.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So I built JqTreeSelect — a lightweight jQuery plugin for creating nested tree select inputs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;✨ Features:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🌳 Nested tree dropdown&lt;br&gt;
🔎 Easy selection&lt;br&gt;
⚡ Lightweight&lt;br&gt;
🚀 Simple setup&lt;br&gt;
📦 Works with plain HTML + jQuery&lt;br&gt;
No build tools required&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Demo:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://umairwebdeveloper.github.io/jqTreeSelect/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://umairwebdeveloper.github.io/jqTreeSelect/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
    Frontend
    Backend
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;$("#category").jqTreeSelect();&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just include the script and start using it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;GitHub:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/umairwebdeveloper/jqTreeSelect" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/umairwebdeveloper/jqTreeSelect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I would love to get feedback from the developer community:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What features should I add?&lt;br&gt;
Any improvements?&lt;br&gt;
Any bugs you notice?&lt;/p&gt;

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