JavaScript

“… props that match a property on the Custom Element instance will be assigned as properties, otherwise they will be assigned as attributes.”

TanStack Query, or react-query, simplifies client-side data fetching with features like caching, automatic re-fetching, and error handling. It integrates smoothly with TanStack Router, allowing efficient prefetching and loading states using hooks like useSuspenseQuery.

TanStack Router is one of the most exciting projects in the web development ecosystem right now, and it doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It’s a fully fledged client-side application framework that supports advanced routing, nested layouts, and hooks for loading data. Best of all, it does all of this with deep type safety. This post […]

jQuery for was great and all, but Alpine.js simplifies tasks like data binding and DOM manipulation, providing using a more declarative and clear structure, making it ideal for smaller projects.

If video game development appeals to you on your journey into design and development, you should check out js13kGames, a “coding competition for web game developers, with a 13KB size limit.” The 2024 winners were recently announced, and I find the lot of them outstanding. 13KB is a heck of a constraint. jQuery is like 30k lol. So […]

Paweł Grzybek has a succinct overview of the new things in JavaScript this year, including credit to the people involved. I find it interesting to consider features in the recent light of the JS0/JSSugar proposal/drama. Looking at these features, which ones would be “real language” features (JS0) and which could be processed away (JSSugar)? I […]

This concludes our three-part series on working with clipboard data. With pasting, we have some control over the type of data we want to use.

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 […]