JavaScript

You want to hide an interactive element that you don’t need anymore after JavaScript loads/runs. Can you do it without a “flash” or layout shift?

Artem Zakharchenko: A great “aha” moment for me was when I realized you can use a single signal to remove multiple event listeners!

One of the dev jobs out there is DevRel or “Developer Relations”. A role like that is very likely going to involve teaching and helping people learn a products API. And, if the company has one, SDK’s around that API. Can you articulate the difference between them? At a minimum, that would be good to […]

Another good one from Nicholas C. Zakas this time on code portability. Here’s some choices he made for a recent projects: Portability indeed!

Nice reminder about JavaScript evolving to be more useful from Trevor I. Lasn: The final line there uses what is called the “The nullish coalescing assignment operator assignment operator” in case you need to impress people at parties.

Raymond Camden: It’s been a little while since I last blogged about my favorite web platform feature, Intl. Favorite?! Big words. As someone who does technical writing, though, I get it. Let’s say you have a number, like 392, and you need to display that as megabytes. What is the absolutely correct way to show […]

You can get your hands on ranges of text in JavaScript, then apply a named “highlight” on them, so you can style that range in CSS with no other selector necessary.

A silly debate that rages just as hard as “tabs vs spaces” is “semicolons or not” in JavaScript. Generally, the answer is “use an automatic formatting tool so you don’t have to think about it”. But if you happen to be on the “no semicolons” side, it’s interesting to note that it can cause confusing […]

Zustand is a minimal, but fun and effective state management library which just may improve your render performance.