Introducing TanStack Form
TanStack Form offers a powerful solution for handling form complexity in React. It emphasizes strong typing, performance, and detail management.
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JavaScript
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
A radio button is this: Paul Hebert took at fair look at how Shadcn turns that into 45 lines of code and three imports, which in turn uses Radix which is 215 lines of code and 7 more imports. But do you get better accessibility? No, it’s arguably worse. But do you get ease of […]
The Web Is Fun Again: First Experiments with HTML in Canvas
An experimental API let’s us put HTML within those opening and closing canvas tags and render it to the canvas, while remaining interactive. Lots of possibility here!
Building a Blog in TanStack (Part 2 of 2)
A blog is a perfect use case for pre-rendering, so that the static build files can render all on their own. TanStack Start can even help with the server functions via middleware.
Let’s Get Puzzled!
We can make puzzle pieces in CSS thanks to the amazing clip-path: shape(). Here, Amit takes it further by making a whole grid of them with matched edges and content inside.
What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)
An overview of what’s new in language features, frameworks, runtimes, build tools, testing, and more.
Shadow DOM Focus Delegation: Getting delegatesFocus Right
You don’t necessarily have to do focus handling yourself with shadow DOM web components. For simple wrapper components, there is an easier (and better) way.
When Deno or Bun is a Better Solution than Node.js
Node.js is the default, but should it be? Bun and Deno have come a long way in compatibility and there are reasons that can make them better choices depending on the project.
Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML
The new .setHTML() method in JavaScript, part of the Sanitizer API, can be a one-to-one replacement for .innerHTML(), making sites more secure from XSS attacks. I think that’s pitch-perfect feature branding from Mozilla on this: Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148. Listen to Frederik Braun go deep into this on ShopTalk […]
A Brief History of 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 […]