JavaScript

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?

Vercel published an article with research on how Google Bots deal with client-side JavaScript. People assume that sites that are JavaScript-rendered only are worse for SEO and worry about that. Which is entirely reasonable, as Google themselves warns you that there are limitations with client-side rendering and “some pages may encounter problems with content not […]

Svelte is already quite lightweight and fast, but Svelte 5 still overs big improvements in fine-grained reactivity, meaning re-rendering as absolutely little as possible.

Native support for decorators is inevitable! It simplifies augmenting class methods, which can help with things like logging, memoization, debouncing, and dependency injection.

While it’s a bit more common to *write* to the clipboard, JavaScript can also read from it. Plain text is pretty simple, while multimedia content is a bit more complex.

JavaScript Frameworks generally do a lot of DOM handling for you, but doing it yourself can be the most performant option, and there are quite a few best practices.

Svelte 5 introduces significant improvements in reactivity, state management, and prop handling, maintaining its user-friendly Developer Experience (DX).

Philip Walton for Google responded to our question We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? There are a variety of reasons why usage of them seems to be low, but certainly developers worried about browser support is still a factor. The biggest quoted concern is Safari 15, which is entirely reasonable. […]