JavaScript

I was trying to play with CSS Module Scripts the other day, which are a way to import CSS as a constructable stylesheet using the ESModules syntax. They are Chrome-only so not really something we can generally use (unless you’re building an Electron app or something), but I really like the idea of being able […]

Just a tiny gotcha.

We can pass the mouse position from JavaScript to CSS and use it to make unusual and playful effects.

A bit of a pivot from the Redwood gang, splitting RedwoodJS into Redwood GraphQL … To minimize disruption and provide clarity going forward, we’re renaming the existing RedwoodJS framework to Redwood GraphQL, reflecting its strength as a mature, stable framework built around GraphQL. … and the newfangled RedwoodSDK. Redwood has always been ultra opinionated (I […]

Matt Smith on when to use map() vs. forEach() in JavaScript. Just one of those things I can imagine asking or being asked in a coding interview. Some interesting comments below the article as well.

It’s not particularly obvious, but a child’s useEffect will run before a parent’s will. Let’s look at why.

What is the difference between ESLint and TypeScript? Perhaps that feels like a strange question as ESLint is a, uhm, linter, and TypeScript is a language that compiles to JavaScript. Josh Goldberg writes how there is some overlap: While ESLint and TypeScript operate differently and specialize in different areas of code defects, there is some […]

I enjoyed this blog post from Blake Watson about a simple requirement and then going down the rabbit hole of functional programming to solve it in increasingly reusable, if mind-bending ways. By the end: Creating a function that returns a function that returns a function can get a little trippy to think about. But what […]

Allen Pike “after about a decade away from regularly writing JavaScript” comes back to take a look. I think these points are all correct: The goal was to see if there was an obvious (boring, trodden) framework, and the answer is… kinda?

There are quite a few tools to avoid *needing* a database these days, static site generators chief among them. So then what are the things that push toward or require a database?