JavaScript

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?

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.