CDS 2020: Moving to Modern Javascript
Handling both current and older browsers Javascript has gotten more complicated since Javascript adopted an annual release schedule. We are not talking about the stark difference between ES2015/ES6...
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CDS 2020: New CSS properties for performance
There are two new CSS properties that may help with the layout shift core vitals issue. The content-visibility property allows us to tell the browser when to render an element. The “magic” value here...
Bazel Build System: Overall Notes and Observations
Bazel is hard to get to work but it's really interesting to work with once you get started. Like Ant and other build systems I've worked with before they use their own terminology and their own...
Bazel Build System: Backend code, even more choices
Just like with the frontend, the backend gives you multiple choices of languages and feature sets for working with Bazel. C/C++, Go and Rust are the three languages that I tested generating WASM code...
Bazel build system: Frontend Styling
Bazel presents multiple choices for building your site or app's styles. I've taken three of these choices for a deeper look. The first one, working with Less and Stylus, shows how to work with NPM...
Bazel build system: Typescript and Node.js
In the last post we looked at Bazel, what it is, installation on macOS using homebrew, and a Bazel-based project's basic configuration. This post will look at using Bazel to run Typescript and Node.js...
First Look: Bazel build system
Google has an interesting build system for their internal applications and projects called Blaze. Bazel is the open-source version of that project. According to its documentation, Bazel offers the...
Playwright, a better Puppeteer?
I love Puppeteer, it's almost the perfect tool to test sites and do screenshots of the projects we're working on. It was originally a Chrome only tool, meaning it would only work with headless...
Event Delegation
One of the things that took me a while to fully understand is event delegation and the associated concepts of event bubbling and event targeting. The idea is that, when we add an event listener to an...
Understanding Performance
The hardest thing for me to do when working in the performance space is to understand what the metrics represent and whether we should aim for top performance or where to draw the line of "this...