JavaScript

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.

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.

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 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.