JavaScript

I love those three little dots in JavaScript. Mat Marquis has a nice article covering them (“destructuring” as it were) nicely. And agreed there are plenty of times they can be confusing. What always gets me is that sometimes it is used to “pluck off” the remaining the values from an array or object (which […]

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.

An open letter with a bunch of big names attached to it asking Oracle to give up the copyright on “JavaScript”. It is therefore time to take active steps in order to bring the JavaScript trademark into the public domain, where it belongs. It’s kinda weird, and only for historical acquisition reasons that they have […]

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.

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

Almost every site has at least one third-party script on it, and the average is 5. I’ve taken that from the blog post Introducing Nuxt Scripts from Harlan Wilton. While third-party scripts are a performance and security drain, they are, as Harlan puts it “fundamentally useful and aren’t going anywhere soon.” Typically, you just chuck […]

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.

Chrome is experimentally shipping with Gemini Nano, their smallest Large Language Model (LLM) baked right in, then offer APIs to use it. In Chrome, these APIs are built to run inference against Gemini Nano with fine-tuning or an expert model. Designed to run locally on most modern devices, Gemini Nano is best for language-related use […]

I’m first hearing about the CloseWatcher API after running across Abdelrahman Awad’s blog post about it. The MDN docs are quite direct, making the purpose clear: Some UI components have “close behavior”, meaning that the component appears, and the user can close it when they are finished with it. For example: sidebars, popups, dialogs, or […]

The most basic use case, writing a bit of text to the user’s clipboard, is mercifully easy. But there is plenty more to know. Did you know writing image data to the clipboard ONLY works with PNG?