Evaluating web component libraries
The modern web development landscape is characterized by a drive towards creating more modular, maintainable, and long-lasting applications. At the heart of this movement lies the Web Components...
Optional Chaining in Javascript
This article explores optional chaining in JavaScript: what it is, how it works, and why it's a feature you should be using—along with a few words of caution. Introduction # For many JavaScript...
Exploring Decorators in Typescript and Javascript
Typescript, a superset of Javascript that adds static typing, offers a powerful feature known as decorators. These provide a way to add annotations and meta-programming syntax for classes and their...
Javascript and Typescript classes
Once merely syntactic sugar over prototype-based inheritance, JavaScript classes have matured into a powerful feature set, offering developers a more familiar and robust object-oriented programming...
Caniuse Web Component
Caniuse provides a visual representation of browser support for various web features. Rather than generating a static image using the caniuse embed to display data, I've created a web component that...
Javascript - what is this?
The this keyword in JavaScript can be tricky. It refers to the context in which a function is running, and its value changes depending on how that function is called. This guide will clarify what this...
Instant loading and the speculation rules API
The Speculation Rules API allows developers to hint the browser about which pages a user is likely to navigate to next, enabling the browser to prefetch or prerender those pages. This can lead to...
Using Compression Dictionaries
Compression dictionaries are a new, and intriguing, way to reduce the size of compressed data by using a shared dictionary that is known to both the compressor and decompressor. This can lead to...
Reading Flow and Reading Order
Reading flow and reading order are important concepts in web accessibility, particularly for users who rely on keyboard navigation. The reading flow refers to the logical sequence in which content is...
Line Height Units
Line height units are not new but not widely used yet. They provide to measure things based on the line height of an element for the current font at the current line height. There are two line...