DEV Community Names Two Winners of Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition

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DEV Community has announced the winners of its Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition, which invited developers to showcase meaningful foods through web projects. The first winner, @sizzlebop, created 'Kitty Cafe,' a fully CSS-drawn bakery featuring cat-themed pastries, interactive animations powered entirely by checkbox state machines, and no images, SVG, or JavaScript. The second winner, @minhlong2605, built 'Mâm Cơm,' a landing page for the Vietnamese family rice tray laid out on a historically inspired Đông Sơn bronze drum, complete with a draggable, keyboard-accessible lazy susan. Both winners receive a DEV++ Membership and an exclusive badge, while all valid participants earn a completion badge on their profiles. DEV Community also announced two upcoming challenges — a Sanity Challenge on September 16 and a Kaggle Challenge on September 23.

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