JavaScript

A Brief History of JavaScript from the Deno team, celebrating JavaScript being 30 now. Interesting that the first web request tech was Internet Explorer 5 in 1999, then it took 5 years to get Gmail in 2004, then we started calling it AJAX in 2005, and by 2006, we got jQuery’s $.ajax which made it […]

A framework-agnostic component library, designed to be styled. It can be done.

Loren Stewart built the same (kanban) app 10 times and wrote about it, trying to figure out which JavaScript framework is best for his team. The focus is on mobile web performance. The implementations were reviewed by others. Here’s my own summary of his summary:

You can capture scrolling events and do your own work with the information in them. It can do cool things, but you’ve got work to do.

Turns out `anchor-scope` is pretty darn useful for button/menu setups that will appear multiple times on the same page.

The GOAT JavaScript library jQuery has gone 4.0 coinciding with, from what I hear, was a lovely reunion party. It’s not wildly different, but it’s gone full ESM and dropped a bunch of old stuff. Minified and gzipped it’s 27.6 kB. Version 3.7.1, the last before this release, was 30.5 kB — so it’s nice […]

To avoid page loading jank, there are things we can do to avoid content from shifting around, even if repainting is still necessary.

This post introduces a middleware approach that allows efficient data refetching. The middleware enables the attachment of query keys and server functions, enhancing scalability and flexibility.

I feel like “streaming” will be more and more of a concept in 2026. We can stream HTML, but rarely do. With AI APIs these days, we’re seeing streaming much more commonly. We want to see that LLM kick out an answer word-by-word, as the perceived performance is better that way. What about a JSON […]

What if we could mutate data *and* get all the data back we need to properly update the UI in just one network round-trip?