2024-06-26-Inspirations

One dev team made the shift from React’s "overwhelming VDOM" to modern DOM APIs. They immediately saw speed and interaction improvements.

If the new HTML-first approach of Edge encourages similar projects from other companies and startups, then we may have the start of a new web development movement on our hands. For many in the web developer community, a shift to markup-first/JavaScript-second would be a welcome one.

The fact that so many "smaller" libraries like Preact, Solid, and htmx are climbing in positive sentiment over something massive like Next.js is fascinating. We're starting to see Angular make a bit of a comeback, and we'll see if that trend continues next year. We're seeing people fall out of love with some of the industry darlings. We're seeing very Rusty systems grow. Astro feels like it's off to the races in developer support.

The 2023 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the HTML ecosystem.

Take your time with new CSS, but don't sleep on the essentials

CSS is a flexible language that, in my opinion, requires opinions to be written well and consistently. Here are some of my opinions for writing good CSS.

To remove some of the confusion, here’s a list of misconceptions about Specificity in CSS …

TPGi's William Driver runs through some simple (quick and dirty) checks that any developer can do that will help to create a more inclusive web.

A historical record of foundational web development blog posts.

If you need the effect these provide, you can just grab them and use them. It eliminates the need for anyone to have to re-do work already done. It mostly doesn’t matter what framework you’re using or other technologies are at play, because these are just a native part of the web.

JavaScript, the most popular programming language in 2023, has evolved from its early days in the 1990s to being used across various domains like web and mobile development, game development, and machine learning. How did a language developed in just 10 days by Brendan Eich achieve such widespread success?

Promises give JavaScript the underlying infrastructure it needed in order to provide syntax that looks and feels synchronous, while actually being asynchronous under the hood. It’s pretty friggin’ great.