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There are big tradeoffs, naturally, but vanilla JavaScript is very powerful, usable everywhere, lightweight, and high-performance. Learn it and use it when it’s the best choice.

Let’s have a look at the skills that we find are in-demand today and provide a variety of options for leveling up and ensuring your career is headed upward.

With CSS’ `image-rendering: pixelated;` we can keep HTML images that have pixelated look anyway quite sharp looking, and possibly more performant to boot.

Gradient text is pretty easy to do these days with `background-clip: text;` — but it kills your ability to use `text-shadow`. SVG to the rescue.

Selecting the *next* element in CSS can be done easily with the + combinator. Selecting the *previous* element used to be impossible, but now can be like :has(+ .el), and can be extended in either direction.

TanStack Router is a comprehensive JavaScript framework for client-side applications, emphasizing type-safe routing and navigation. It includes nested layouts and efficient data loading.

The `clip-path` property with the `inset()` shape makes for some cool design opportunities. Here we’ll expand on some existing ideas, improving them by not requiring any content duplication.

Hydration refers to JavaScript frameworks making server-side rendered HTML interactive.

“TypeScript has a steep learning curve, steeper than JavaScript itself. Understanding both of these at the same time can be overwhelming.”

This guide serves as an introduction to learning JavaScript, covering necessary prerequisite knowledge and addressing common obstacles. It highlights JavaScript’s origins, essential concepts, and practical applications across different environments.