JavaScript

Sometimes it’s good to know when a browser feature is supported or not so you can do something. Perhaps load a polyfill or just choose a slightly different approach. This post looks at newish features in browsers and shows the test.

Michelle Barker’s technique for popover footnotes is great. Here we look at ways we could fight the content duplication. There are ups and downs.

This method enhances flexibility by allowing promises to be resolved or rejected remotely, simplifying and streamlining asynchronous code.

Server-side component rendering can improve data loading efficiency over client-rendered SPAs. Despite their benefits, such as out-of-order streaming, they have limitations, including slow server action updates and lack of support for client-side interactivity. React Query complements RSC by managing client-side data updates, addressing some of RSC’s drawbacks.

Let’s say you don’t know JavaScript. You’re a web designer and you’re focused largely on UI and UX. Let’s look at some things you could learn in a day that will give you that bang for the buck.

We can *mostly* use HTML alone for this API. But here, we’ll use CSS to style the “links” within paragraphs and a JS library to position them, in lieu of CSS anchoring.

Speaking of Jake, his recent article HTML attributes vs DOM properties is a good one for all y’all on that journey to senior developer. I could imagine asking this in an interview. I’d say you should straight up know this is the case and learn over time the more nuanced stuff like which properties reflect […]

I only just recently saw Faces.js, a library for producing controllable cartoony avatars. It was launched in 2012, so I’m a little late to the party. It produces faces (busts, really) randomly, or with certain parameters locked to what you want. I think that’s a really cool idea, and if you needed this kind of […]

The JavaScript architectural pattern of “signals” has really had a moment in the last year. There are lots of frameworks that have adopted it as the predominant way to declare and respond to variables that change across componentry. Web standards bodies, at their best, notice things like this and step in to help bring them […]

You could design something on the web then take a screenshot of it. That is, in a basic sense, converting DOM to PNG. But a screenshot is rather manual and finicky. If you had to do this over and over, or you needed a very exact size (like a social media card), you can actually […]