2024-10-29-Inspirations

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.

In this article, I aim to provide you with the fundamental JavaScript knowledge required to succeed in React and other front-end frameworks. By the end of this piece, you will better understand key JavaScript concepts—such as destructuring, short-circuiting, and fetching data, among others—and how to use them effectively.

Support for the relative color syntax in CSS is across the board now (go interop!), so here we look at some basic (and still very useful) use cases, like applying alpha to a color you have on hand.

Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSS min() function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness. Discover the cautions he highlights against dogmatic approaches to web design based on his findings.

This is an overview of the major techniques used to make web sites and web applications without making use of build tools or frameworks, with just an editor, a browser, and web standards.

We're finally getting a select element we can fully control with CSS! A bunch of other stuff needed to be added to the platform to make it work, and the good news is we can use a lot of them independently of select.

Microsoft's Edge browser team is on a mission to swap out React UI components with native web platform components. We speak to the team lead.

A recent talk I gave about JavaScript bundlers. It’s a bit of a history lesson, and along the way I tried to introduce what bundlers are, why you’d use one, what problems they solve, dived into how they work internally, features like code splitting and tree shaking, and discussed the vast landscape of JavaScript and web tooling out there today.

In our case, the complex, stateful nature of Helper’s interface made React and Next.js a better fit. However, we continue to appreciate htmx’s approach and may consider it for future projects where its strengths align better with our needs.

People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.

Despite better judgement I decided to code a basic HTML parser. Not the full HTML spec but enough to create a tree of nodes and attributes.