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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript (jad/sma)2213
dependencies, browsers, support, web-platform
Working With “::highlight()” Using Progressive Enhancement (sun/pic)2212
css, apis, progressive-enhancement
Your JSON Is Lying to You2211
json, console
Same Name; Different Component With Scoped Custom Element Registries (fro)2210
web-components, browsers
Building the ChatGPT Typing Effect (jsd)2209
chatgpt, effects
When It Makes Sense to “Block” the Main Thread (sma)2208
performance
Protecting HTML Content Against Copying (jsd)2207
html, css, canvas, obfuscation, techniques, comparisons
I Stopped Destructuring Everything2206
HTML in Canvas: Render Real DOM Inside “<canvas>”2205
html, canvas
Fetch Needs Error Codes (jas)2204
data-fetching, errors
Proxy and Reflect (wil/pic)2203
objects
Time-Based Background Colour Transitions With Temporal and CSS Color-Mix (sop)2202
apis, time, css
Do We Still Need Build Tools? (oll)2201
css, building, tooling
The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events (dxn/css)2200
css, state-management, selectors, events
Animating the “dialog” Element Using View Transitions (rik)2199
modals, html, animations, view-transitions, css
The Siren Song of “ariaNotify()” (wil/css)2198
aria, notifications, attributes, html, jaws, nvda, voiceover, screen-readers, accessibility
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript (sir/web)2197
videos, minimalism, dependencies, standards
Dark Mode With Web Standards (oll)2196
dark-mode, standards, html, svg, css
The Quiet Problem With Unnecessary Async2195
asynchronicity
Streaming HTML (oll)2194
html, streaming
Astro: HTML First, JavaScript When You Need It (jad)2193
astro, html
Gary Illyes: The Web’s JavaScript Mess Is an AI Agent Nightmare (ppc)2192
ai, ai-agents, html, rag, llmstxt
Everything You Need to Know About Sourcemaps (nec)2191
source-maps
CSS vs. JavaScript (jos)2190
css, animations, comparisons
JS Crossword (reb)2189
Accessible by Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and ARIA Techniques That Scale2188
videos, accessibility, html, css, aria
Saying Goodbye to asm.js (eqr/spi)2187
spidermonkey, javascript-engines, firefox, browsers
Intentionally Blocking Rendering With JavaScript (jay)2186
rendering, painting, web-components
TypeScript, C#, and Turbo Pascal With Anders Hejlsberg (ahe/ger)2185
videos, interviews, programming, typescript, microsoft
Zoomable Image—Creating a Zoom Effect (bar)2184
zooming, images, effects, hugo, css
Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm (wil/css)2183
ecmascript, apis
I Keep Tripping Over “true, false, true”2182
CSS Math “random()” in Production: Native Randomness Without JavaScript2181
css, math, functions, randomness, performance, accessibility
The “<selectmenu>” Element: Stop Using JavaScript Dropdown Libraries2180
html, forms, css
Out With the JS, in With the HTML (jim)2179
html, refactoring
Your Recursion Is Lying to You2178
software-design-patterns
A Compiler Engineer’s Walkthrough of JavaScript Spread Arguments (hac)2177
compiling
Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web (moz)2176
security, open-web, firefox, browsers
Devtools: How to Query Through the Shadow DOM (rem)2175
how-tos, shadow-dom, dev-tools, browsers
Preserving DOM Changes Across Live Reloads (kit)2174
dom, eleventy
Canvas-ing the Web (mey)2173
canvas
replacements.fyi (430/e18)2172
websites, dependencies, refactoring, migrating, maintenance
Constructable Stylesheets and “adoptedStyleSheets”: One Parse, Every Shadow Root (fro)2171
web-components, lit, css, apis, shadow-dom
Visual Validation Feedback for Form Fields (aar)2170
html, forms, validation
The Web Is Fun Again: First Experiments With HTML in Canvas (ami/fro)2169
experiments, html, canvas
What’s Actually New in JavaScript (and What’s Coming Next) (nec)2168
ecmascript, standards, retrospectives, outlooks
Why I Don’t Chain Everything in JavaScript Anymore2167
Making Dark Mode Play Nicely With BFCache2166
dark-mode, bfcache
Creating Custom Page Transitions in Astro With Barba.js and GSAP (cod)2165
astro, gsap, tooling, animations
You Can’t Cancel a JavaScript Promise (Except Sometimes You Can) (inn)2164
promises
RFC JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript2163
tooling
“Intl” Can Localize Units, Too (ste)2162
localization, units
What to Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition) (chr/fro)2161
ecmascript, standards, frameworks, runtimes, tooling, testing, npm
Burnout Is Real for Open Source Maintainers: A Conversation With John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash (jdd/ope)2160
podcasts, interviews, libraries, lodash, foss, maintenance
Your Options for Preloading Images With JavaScript (mac)2159
images, preloading, techniques
Your Debounce Is Lying to You2158
software-design-patterns, debouncing
Building a Runtime With QuickJS (hea)2157
quickjs, runtimes, functionality
Shadow DOM Focus Delegation: Getting “delegatesFocus” Right (fro)2156
accessibility, shadow-dom, focus, lit, web-components
Uses for Nested Promises2155
promises, asynchronicity
JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring (wil/css)2154
examples
How to Burn $30M on a JavaScript Framework… (fir)2153
videos, frameworks, famous
JavaScript Thinks Everything’s a Date2152
time, v8, javascriptcore, python
The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat (430)2151
dependencies, complexity, runtimes, architecture, polyfills
Form-Associated Custom Elements in Practice (fro)2150
web-components, forms
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript (jas)2149
time, apis, retrospectives
Building Dynamic Forms in React and Next.js (sma)2148
forms, react, nextjs
Source Maps: Shipping Features Through Standards (jon)2147
source-maps
Testing Browser Support for “focusgroup” (ada)2146
html, attributes, focus
You Don’t Know HTML Tables2145
html, tables
Date Math in JavaScript: The Hidden Trap You’ll Eventually Hit (phi/hac)2144
time, math, apis
Seven Years to TypeScript: Migrating 11,000 Files at Patreon2143
migrating, typescript, case-studies
Proxying Fetch Requests in Server-Side JavaScript (nza)2142
data-fetching, nodejs, deno, bun, cloudflare
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose? (zel/css)2141
pop-overs, modals, apis, accessibility
External Import Maps, Today (lea)2140
import-maps
Getting Started With the Popover API (sma)2139
introductions, pop-overs, tooltips, apis
January 2026 Baseline Monthly Digest (mal)2138
browsers, support, web-platform, css, view-transitions, web-workers, apis, units
JavaScript DRMs Are Stupid and Useless2137
drm
We Deserve a Better Streams API for JavaScript (jas)2136
streaming, apis
A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets (val/css)2135
guides, bookmarklets, link-lists
16 Modern JavaScript Features That Might Blow Your Mind2134
Rewriting a 12-Year-Old JavaScript Library in TypeScript2133
refactoring, typescript
Goodbye “innerHTML”, Hello “setHTML”: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (moz)2132
methods, xss, security, firefox, browsers
From “instanceof” to “Error.isError”: Safer Error Checking in JavaScript2131
errors
Dictionary Compression Is Finally Here, and It’s Ridiculously Good (pim/htt)2130
compression, performance
Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who Wins at a Million Rows?2129
webassembly, comparisons, performance
We Cut Node.js’ Memory in Half (mco/pla)2128
nodejs, v8, memory, metrics
5 Source Map Best Practices for Frontend Production Deployments (ele/des)2127
guest-posts, source-maps, best-practices
JS-Heavy Approaches Are Not Compatible With Long-Term Performance Goals (ser)2126
frameworks, performance, prioritization
Quick and Dirty Linting (sto)2125
linting, typescript, biome
It’s About to Get a Lot Easier for Your JavaScript to Clean Up After Itself (wil/pic)2124
garbage-collection
Building an Endless Procedural Snake With Three.js and WebGL (suj/cod)2123
threejs, webgl
Vite, Rust, and the Future of JavaScript Tooling (eva+/bet)2122
videos, interviews, vuejs, rust, oxc, bundling, tooling, ai
Why JavaScript Needs Structured Concurrency2121
concurrency, asynchronicity
Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems2120
libraries, apis, web-platform
A Percise Parser (rem)2119
parsing
State of JavaScript 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)2118
surveys, metrics
Explicit Resource Management in JavaScript2117
View Transitions and Playing Video (chr/fro)2116
view-transitions, multimedia
StyleX vs. Tailwind: Meta’s Take on CSS-in-JS Maintainability2115
tailwind, comparisons, css-in-js, maintainability, css
The Unhinged World of Tech in 2026… (fir)2114
videos, outlooks, ai
So You Think Your Website Is Doing Great (cit)2113
html, css, quality
Stop Turning Everything Into Arrays (and Do Less Work Instead)2112
methods, arrays
Aspire for JavaScript Developers (dav)2111
tooling, typescript
How Wrong Can a JavaScript Date Calculation Go? (phi)2110
time, apis
Beyond the Mouse: Animating With Mobile Accelerometers (ami/fro)2109
mobile, animations
Web Dependencies Are Broken—Can We Fix Them? (lea)2108
dependencies, import-maps, web-platform
Date Is Out, Temporal Is In (wil/pic)2107
time
2025 JavaScript Rising Stars2106
frameworks, libraries, react, vuejs, tooling, ai, mobile, desktop, state-management, css-in-js, testing, static-site-generation, graphql, retrospectives
The Nine Levels of JavaScript Dependency Hell (and)2105
dependencies, maintainability
Streaming JSON in Just 200 Lines of JavaScript2104
streaming, json
JavaScript Frameworks—Heading Into 2026 (rya/thi)2103
frameworks, outlooks, ai
How to Create a Pixel-to-Voxel Video Drop Effect With Three.js and Rapier (cod)2102
how-tos, effects, tooling, gsap, threejs
We Fixed a 6-Year-Old JavaScript Memory Leak (mat/deb)2101
memory
TIL: Why ARM Has a JavaScript Instruction2100
Building a JavaScript Runtime in One Month (the)2099
runtimes, functionality
JavaScript’s “for…of” Loops Are Actually Fast2098
loops, performance
The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs (sli/per)2097
performance, single-page-apps, frameworks, metrics
Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript2096
frameworks, apis, performance, micro-frontends, architecture
How to Dynamically Install Custom Elements (hey)2095
how-tos, web-components, naming
The Fall of JavaScript (yeg)2094
typescript, programming
Trends That Defined JavaScript in 20252093
trends, retrospectives, react, frameworks, tooling, ai
Why Object of Arrays (SoA Pattern) Beat Interleaved Arrays: A JavaScript Performance Rabbit Hole2092
performance, arrays
Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM (mey)2091
shadow-dom, html
Dialog View Transitions (med)2090
modals, view-transitions
Different Page Transitions for Different Circumstances (chr/fro)2089
css, view-transitions, animations
The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix (kat/red)2088
bundling, tooling, vite, rspack, turbopack, bun, rolldown, browserify, webpack, rollup, parcel, esbuild, history
I Ported JustHTML From Python to JavaScript With Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 Hours (sim)2087
migrating, ai, python, tooling, parsing, html
Why We Teach Our Students Progressive Enhancement (cyd)2086
progressive-enhancement, html, css, training
Using the Browser Console for Accessibility Testing (rus)2085
accessibility, testing, console, examples
Discover Dialog (sar/mat)2084
html, modals, css
Design Accessible Animation and Movement With Code Examples (pop)2083
design, accessibility, animations, css, examples
Non-Blocking Cross-Browser Image Rendering on the Canvas (mys/per)2082
canvas, images, performance
What Are DOM Mutations? (rus)2081
accessibility, dom
In 1995, a Netscape Employee Wrote a Hack in 10 Days That Now Runs the Internet (ben/ars)2080
netscape, history
The Nuances of JavaScript Typing Using JSDoc (jar/van)2079
jsdoc, typescript, developer-experience
How Modern Browsers Work (add)2078
browsers, chromium, network, parsing, painting, rendering, javascript-engines, v8, memory, modules, html, css
Category Theory for JavaScript/TypeScript Developers (ibr)2077
typescript, programming, craft
How Microfrontends Work: 3 Integration Strategies2076
micro-frontends, strategies, routing, iframes, ai
CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity2075
css-in-js, css, performance, developer-experience
What Are Invokers? Interactivity Without JavaScript (tol/syn)2074
videos, html, pop-overs
You’re Doing JavaScript Testing Wrong (cfe)2073
testing
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (sli)2072
performance, metrics
Managing Side Effects: A JavaScript Effect System in 30 Lines or Less (ayc)2071
The Last Couple Years in V8’s Garbage Collector (win)2070
v8, javascript-engines, garbage-collection, memory, retrospectives
How We Catch UI Bugs Early With Visual Regression Testing2069
testing, regressions, playwright
Error Chaining in JavaScript: Cleaner Debugging With “Error.cause”2068
errors, debugging
JavaScript Just Leveled Up: ES2025—You’ll Fall in Love With (jsd)2067
ecmascript, standards
Advanced Beginner’s Guide to ClojureScript (rom)2066
guides
The Web Animation Performance Tier List (cit)2065
animations, performance, css, apis
The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps (man/pol)2064
typescript, source-maps
Start Implementing View Transitions on Your Websites Today (cyd/pic)2063
css, view-transitions, apis
Import JavaScript Like It’s 2026 (sto)2062
performance
The JavaScript Feature You’ve Probably Never Used Allows Running Untrusted JavaScript Safely2061
JavaScript for Everyone: Iterators (wil/sma)2060
The Origin Story of JavaScript (ann/cas)2059
videos, history, web, ecmascript, browsers, browser-wars, browser-engines, standards
Directives and the Platform Boundary (tan/tan)2058
frameworks
NaN, the Not-a-Number Number That Isn’t NaN (wil/pic)2057
Importing vs. Fetching JSON (jaf)2056
json, data-fetching, comparisons
The Charm of JavaScript: Boom Mics and Clown Shoes (wil+/iga)2055
podcasts, interviews
An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions (wil/css)2054
introductions
Links and Anchors: Ancient HTML and JS Magic in Your Browser (cod/wea)2053
html, css, links
Rethinking Async Loops in JavaScript2052
loops, asynchronicity
“URLPattern” Is Now Baseline Newly Available2051
urls, apis, web-platform, browsers, support
Why “NaN !== NaN” in JavaScript (and the IEEE 754 Story Behind It)2050
history, standards
You’re a Real JavaScript Developer Only If…2049
career
Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web2048
web-apps, security
What’s Up in ES2027? (por/nor)2047
videos, ecmascript, outlooks
For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct (sco)2046
css, hiding
Secure Coding in JavaScript2045
frameworks, security
Writing an Emulator in JavaScript? (nik/nor)2044
videos
Tips for Working With Emoji (chr)2043
emoji, css, tips-and-tricks
The Future of Lodash (uli)2042
libraries, lodash, outlooks
Find Where a Specific Object Was Allocated in JavaScript With DevTools2041
objects, dev-tools, browsers
Inside a 16.67 Millisecond Frame2040
rendering, reflow, painting, performance
How to Group Arrays in JavaScript Without “reduce()”2039
how-tos, arrays
Smashing Animations: Building Adaptive SVGs With “<symbol>”, “<use>”, and CSS Media Queries (mal/sma)2038
animations, svg, css
A Progressive Enhancement Challenge (chr/fro)2037
progressive-enhancement, html, feature-detection, support
I Want to Intercept Boolean Coercion for Objects in JavaScript (zac)2036
objects, types
You Can Now Make PS2 Games in JavaScript2035
Why “typeof null === object”2034
operators
State of JavaScript 2025 (sac/dev)2033
surveys
Creating a Truly Accessible Flip Card (sib/tpg)2032
html, css, accessibility
Stop Using “.reverse().find()”: Meet “findLast()”2031
methods, arrays
How to Disable Right Click With JavaScript (rik)2030
how-tos
Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints (jon)2029
Frontend JavaScript Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide (get)2028
guides, performance, testing
Fetch Streams Are Great, but Not for Measuring Upload/Download Progress (jaf)2027
data-fetching, apis
The Missing Link in JavaScript Tools (mar)2026
tooling
Just Use HTML (cfe)2025
html
Web Development for Beginners: Frontend Frameworks (rau)2024
frameworks, preact
Finally, Safe Array Methods in JavaScript2023
arrays, methods
Functional Custom Elements the Easy Way (gin/pic)2022
web-components
Why You Should Test Your Page Without JavaScript2021
support, progressive-enhancement, accessibility
Learning Web Development: Asynchronous JavaScript—Promises and “async” Functions (rau)2020
asynchronicity, promises, functions
We Used AI to Compare and Demo 6 JavaScript Charting Libraries (kyl+/web)2019
videos, libraries, visualization, comparisons, ai
Why Do Browsers Throttle JavaScript Timers? (nol)2018
time, browsers
Learning Web Development: JSON and Processing Files in Node.js (rau)2017
json, nodejs, arrays, objects
Learning Web Development: JavaScript Maps (rau)2016
9 JavaScript Patterns I Wish I Used Earlier2015
software-design-patterns
JavaScript’s Trademark Problem (rau)2014
oracle, legal, deno
Learning Web Development: JavaScript Exceptions (rau)2013
errors
You No Longer Need JavaScript (reb)2012
css, html, examples
Learning Web Development: Plain Objects in JavaScript (rau)2011
objects
Learning Web Development: Modules and Testing in JavaScript (rau)2010
modules, testing
Hack to the Future—Frontend (the)2009
history, html, css, design, layout, flash, image-replacement, libraries, frameworks, hacks, xhtml, tooling, testing, outlooks
JavaScript Engines Explained—Comparing V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, and More (ele/des)2008
guest-posts, javascript-engines, v8, spidermonkey, javascriptcore, quickjs, chakracore
JavaScript Engines Zoo2007
javascript-engines, overviews, comparisons, v8, spidermonkey, quickjs, javascriptcore, chakracore
Understanding “Promise.any()”: When One Success Is Enough2006
promises, asynchronicity
Learning Web Development: Loops in JavaScript (rau)2005
loops
Unit Formatting With “Intl” in JavaScript (ray)2004
units, localization
What’s Next for JavaScript? (jsd)2003
outlooks
Learning Web Development: Arrays in JavaScript (rau)2002
arrays
Learning Web Development: Strings and Methods in JavaScript (rau)2001
strings, methods
Learning Web Development: Numbers, Variables, Functions in JavaScript (rau)2000
variables, functions
Eliminating JavaScript Cold Starts on AWS Lambda (goo)1999
lambda, aws, runtimes
JavaScript Is Tough to Master1998
learning
Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—SemVer (mar)1997
performance, semver, versioning, dependencies
A Progressive Complexity Manifesto (che)1996
manifestos, complexity, web-apps, html, htmx, web-components, frameworks, principles
The Power of the “Intl” API: A Definitive Guide to Browser-Native Internationalization (fuq/sma)1995
guides, apis, internationalization
Using the Custom Highlight API (chr/fro)1994
apis, css, syntax-highlighting
Building Extensible Frontend Systems (cfe)1993
web-components, extensibility, css
How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 With Daniel Ehrenberg (lit+/wee)1992
videos, interviews, ecmascript
How We Made “JSON.stringify” More Than Twice as Fast1991
json, strings, v8, javascript-engines, optimization, performance
Our Fight With Oracle Is Getting Crazy… (den)1990
videos, oracle, legal, licensing
JavaScript Isn’t the Problem—Replacing the Browser Was (p4p/red)1989
single-page-apps, browsers
What Your Website’s Style Says About You—and How Hackers Can Use It Against You (err)1988
security, css
HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?1987
html, frameworks
Logical Assignment Operators in JavaScript: Small Syntax, Big Wins1986
operators
The Many, Many, Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade (shi)1985
runtimes, history
Vanilla JavaScript Support for Tailwind Plus (phi+/tai)1984
tailwind
Never Write Your Own Date Parsing Library (zac)1983
libraries, comparisons, time, parsing
The Untold Story of JavaScript1982
videos, history
Web Serial: The Only Reason I’ll Admit JavaScript Isn’t All Bad1981
A Primer on Focus Trapping (zel/css)1980
introductions, focus, keyboard-navigation, accessibility
Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters (sma)1979
events
Compile Svelte 5 in Your Head1978
svelte, compiling
Revisiting My 2010 JavaScript Library (dia)1977
retrospectives, libraries, internet-explorer, browsers
Writing “!= null”? That’s What Junior Devs Do—Here’s the Senior Way1976
The Untold Story of JavaScript (den)1975
videos, history
Modern Async Iteration in JavaScript With “Array.fromAsync()”1974
arrays, asynchronicity
Managing the State of Your Promises (ato)1973
state-management, promises
Bulletproof Web Component Loading (cfe)1972
web-components
These 5 Programming Languages Are Quietly Taking Over in 20251971
programming, rust, python, go
JavaScript Scope Hoisting Is Broken (dev)1970
scope, code-splitting
30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web1969
anniversaries, history, ecmascript, ajax, jquery, web-2.0, nodejs, npm, react, typescript, webassembly
JavaScript Is Being Rewritten in Rust (ost/end)1968
rust
I Started Learning JavaScript Again—a Beginner-Friendly Guide to the Basics1967
guides, fundamentals
A Simple Website1966
websites, history, layout, animations, images, tables, ajax, flash, deploying, simplicity
How JSDoc Saved My Dev Workflow (ato)1965
jsdoc, typescript, documentation
Default Parameters: Your Code Just Got Smarter1964
What’s the Difference Between Ordinary Functions and Arrow Functions in JavaScript? (jrs)1963
functions, comparisons
JavaScript Trademark Update (tin/den)1962
legal, oracle
Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New? (rau)1961
ecmascript
What’s Coming to JavaScript (lca/den)1960
deno
Speculative Optimizations for WebAssembly Using Deopts and Inlining (lie)1959
v8, javascript-engines, webassembly, optimization, speculation
Tips for Making Regular Expressions Easier to Use in JavaScript (rau)1958
regex, tips-and-tricks, examples
Decoding the SVG “path” Element: Curve and Arc Commands (sma)1957
svg, css
Deep Dive Into JavaScript Engine Internals: V8, SpiderMonkey, and Chakra1956
deep-dives, javascript-engines, v8, spidermonkey, chakracore
JavaScript Broke the Web (and Called It Progress) (jon)1955
performance, user-experience, tooling, tech-stacks, history
9 New JavaScript Features in ES2025 (w3c/syn)1954
videos, ecmascript
When Can I Use Temporal?1953
apis, time
JSON Module Scripts Are Now Baseline Newly Available (tom)1952
json, browsers, support, web-platform
Slightly Enhanced Sticky Revealing Footer (cri)1951
navigation, css
Compiling JavaScript Ahead of Time (goo/web)1950
videos, javascript-engines, compiling
JavaScript String “slice()” Considered Harmful (att)1949
strings
Using “await” at the Top Level in ES Modules1948
esm, asynchronicity
CJS vs. AMD vs. UMD vs. ESM: Which JavaScript Module Format Should You Use—and Why It Even Matters1947
nodejs, modules, commonjs, esm, bundling, comparisons
Happy Birthday, JavaScript (ato)1946
anniversaries
Exploring JavaScript (rau)1945
books
Quick Tip: Avoid Event Listeners on the “window” Object (nat)1944
jquery, events, accessibility, tips-and-tricks
How JavaScript Was Written Back in the Day (tre)1943
jquery, history, comparisons
Worker Threads in Node.js: A Complete Guide for Multithreading in JavaScript (nod)1942
guides, nodejs, worker-threads, multithreading
How to Use the Browser Console: An In-Depth Guide (mat/deb)1941
guides, how-tos, dev-tools, console, browsers
5 Best JavaScript Web Scraping Libraries in 2025 (api)1940
libraries, scraping, link-lists
Creating the “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript and CSS (sma)1939
navigation, effects, css
How to “import()” a JavaScript String (zac)1938
how-tos, strings
“firstChild” Can Be White Space (chr/fro)1937
whitespace
How Imports Work in RSC (dan)1936
react, components, modules
I Copy These 10 Code Snippets Into Every Project1935
debouncing, json, objects, arrays
“document.currentScript” Is More Useful Than I Thought (mac)1934
Is It JavaScript? (jim)1933
browsers, servers, jsx, typescript, terminology
Write More Reliable JavaScript With Optional Chaining1932
reliability
A JavaScript Developer’s Guide to Go (psu)1931
guides, go, examples
Web Bluetooth API Usage—a Practical Guide1930
guides, apis
The 3 Ways JavaScript Frameworks Render the DOM (rya)1929
videos, frameworks, dom, rendering
Why Are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 Different Days in JavaScript?1928
time
A Thought on JavaScript “Proof of Work” Anti-Scraper Systems (cks)1927
ai, scraping
Comparing Rust, JavaScript, and Go for Authoring WASM Components1926
webassembly, components, rust, go, comparisons
JavaScript’s Upcoming Temporal API and What Problems It Will Solve1925
time, apis
Multithreading in JavaScript With Web Workers (hon)1924
multithreading, web-workers, examples
A Brief History of JavaScript (den)1923
history, ecmascript, typescript, json, javascript-engines, runtimes, browsers
You Can Style Alt Text Like Any Other Text (geo/css)1922
alt-text, accessibility, images, css
Make Screen Readers Talk With the ARIA Notify API (ale)1921
accessibility, screen-readers, aria, notifications, apis
Authenticating JavaScript WebSockets1920
websockets, authentication
Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks (rya)1919
introductions, videos, frameworks, react, angular, vuejs, svelte, solidjs
How JavaScript’s “at()” Method Makes Array Indexing Easier1918
arrays
JavaScript in the Morning, JavaScript in the Evening… (ray)1917
localization
The State of JavaScript Debugging in WebAssembly1916
webassembly, debugging
No Server, No Database: Smarter Related Posts in Astro With transformers.js (ale)1915
astro, ai, hugging-face
Handling Routes in JavaScript Projects (sea)1914
routing, frameworks
Styling Console Text in Node.js (rau)1913
nodejs, console
I Think the Ergonomics of Generators Is Growing on Me (mac)1912
functions
JavaScript Compile Hints: What They Are and When to Use Them (tre)1911
compiling, v8, javascript-engines
Building the Bridge: Running JavaScript Modules From Dart1910
modules, esm, commonjs, dart, deno
Migrating a JavaScript Project From Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS (app)1909
migrating, prettier, eslint, biome
The Power of the Spread and Rest Syntax in JavaScript1908
arrays
Event Handling in JAWS and NVDA (sib/tpg)1907
accessibility, screen-readers, jaws, nvda, events, comparisons
JavaScript, When Is This? (wil/pic)1906
Converting Values to Strings in JavaScript (rau)1905
conversion
Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster JavaScript Startup With Explicit Compile Hints1904
v8, javascript-engines, compiling
Giving Software Away for Free (sim)1903
foss, hosting, html
Why Care About the No-JS Experience? (cfe)1902
support
Making a Small JavaScript Blog Static Site Generator Even Smaller Using the General “async-tree” Library (jan)1901
static-site-generation, tooling
JavaScript Framework Reality Check: What’s Actually Working1900
frameworks, qwik, solidjs, sveltekit, fresh
Creating CSS Theme Variables From a JS File (mic)1899
css, theming, custom-properties, conversion
Why I’m Not Ready to Abandon JavaScript for “Faster” Languages1898
rust, go, refactoring, performance
Contextual Logging With “console.context()” (pat)1897
console, dev-tools, browsers
When to Use “map()” vs. “forEach()”1896
arrays, comparisons
Optimizing Node.js Performance: V8 Memory Management and GC Tuning (mco/pla)1895
nodejs, performance, optimization, v8, javascript-engines, memory, garbage-collection
Float16Array in JavaScript (tre)1894
arrays
Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors (val/css)1893
css, cursors
A Flowing WebGL Gradient, Deconstructed1892
webgl, gradients, math
Exploring TypeScript: TS 5.8 Edition (rau)1891
books, typescript
Mastering Default Values in JavaScript With the Nullish Coalescing (“??”) Operator1890
operators
Some Features That Every JavaScript Developer Should Know in 20251889
arrays, promises, prototypes, variables
Hiding Elements That Require JavaScript Without JavaScript (0xd)1888
css, html
Debugging JavaScript Memory Leaks (jar/bun)1887
memory, debugging, dev-tools, chrome, browsers, bun
A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript1886
npm, dependencies, history
React 19’s New Hooks: With Practical Examples (let)1885
react, hooks, examples
Deno vs. Oracle Update 3: Fighting the JavaScript Trademark (tin/den)1884
deno, oracle, legal, history
Breaking Down Circular Dependencies in JavaScript1883
dependencies
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright (css)1882
regressions, testing, automation, playwright
Could JavaScript Have Synchronous “await”? (rau)1881
asynchronicity
JavaScript’s Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution1880
wasp, frameworks, history
Land Ahoy: Leaving the Sea of Nodes1879
v8, javascript-engines, compiling
War Story: The Hardest Bug I Ever Debugged (jak)1878
debugging, v8, chrome, browsers, bugs
UI Algorithms: A Tiny Undo Stack (jul)1877
algorithms, functionality, undo-redo
JavaScript Basics for a Senior Dev1876
fundamentals, concepts, examples
Previewing Content Changes in Your Work With “document.designMode” (sma)1875
browsers, dev-tools, content, design
Stop Chasing New JavaScript Frameworks: Build With Fundamentals Instead1874
fundamentals, frameworks, react, vuejs, angular, svelte, solidjs
SSR Deep Dive for React Developers1873
deep-dives, server-side-rendering, react
How WebAssembly Components Can Replace JavaScript SDKs (sac)1872
webassembly, components
Why the Latest JavaScript Frameworks Are a Waste of Time1871
frameworks, react, angular
“Intl.DurationFormat”: Format Time Durations With Locale Support (tre)1870
localization
A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle (hil)1869
parsing, history
On JavaScript Closures (With Examples of Interview Questions) (mar)1868
guest-posts, closures, variables, examples, interviewing
Ten Years Ago Today I Coined the Shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript Required; Didn’t Read” (tan)1867
support, terminology
JavaScript Best Practice: Use “return await”1866
asynchronicity, best-practices
The Professional Standing of Frontend Developers (mar)1865
guest-posts, career, learning, html, css, communication, collaboration, community, ai
7 Best Practices of File Upload With JavaScript and React1864
file-handling, react, best-practices
JavaScript (htt)1863
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, performance, bundling, transpiling, web-workers, libraries, web-components
Image Comparison Slider in 6 Lines of JavaScript1862
sliders, images
JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back (all)1861
react, frameworks, libraries, tooling
What Is TypeScript? An Overview for JavaScript Programmers (rau)1860
overviews, typescript, comparisons
How to Reduce Web Application Bundle Size? (ant)1859
how-tos, web-apps, bundling, tooling
Justified Text, JS “moveBefore” Method, Performance Optimization (zor/css)1858
videos, css, typography, performance, optimization
Turbocharging V8 With Mutable Heap Numbers1857
v8, javascript-engines, performance, randomness
Subverting Control With Weak References (jlo)1856
programming
Solved by Style Observer: “Element.matchContainer()” (bra)1855
css
Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—Rust and JavaScript Plugins (mar)1854
performance, rust, plugins
Clean Code in JavaScript: A Comprehensive Guide1853
guides, principles, conventions, variables, objects, functions, comments, testing, quality
Introduction to Frontend Development1852
introductions, html, css, frameworks, libraries, tooling, career, trends
TC39 Advances 3 Proposals to Stage 4: RegExp Escaping, Float16Array, and Redeclarable Global Eval Vars (sar/soc)1851
standards, ecmascript, regex, escaping, arrays, math
20 Years of AJAX: The Technology That Revolutionized Web Development1850
ajax, history, data-fetching
How to Move the First Element to the End in JavaScript1849
how-tos
Create Contextual Console Loggers (pat/dev)1848
console, debugging, dev-tools, browsers, edge, chrome
Style Observer: JS to Observe CSS Property Changes, for Reals (lea)1847
tooling, libraries, css
Testing 10 JavaScript Frameworks on Their HTML Defaults (j9t)1846
frameworks, html, conformance, comparisons, link-lists
Think JavaScript Is Slow? Here’s How JIT (Just in Time) Compilation Makes It 100× Faster Instantly1845
compiling, performance
The First Ever Website That Literally Glows in the Dark1844
videos, effects, apis, css
View Transitions Applied: More Performant “::view-transition-group(*)” Animations (bra)1843
css, view-transitions, performance
Move on to ESM-Only (ant)1842
esm, modules, nodejs, support, typescript
Using “at()” Method in JavaScript to Get the Last Item From an Array (ama)1841
arrays
Oracle Justified Its JavaScript Trademark With Node.js—Now It Wants That Ignored (tin/den)1840
oracle, nodejs, deno, legal
Fast and Smooth Third-Party Web Fonts (sco)1839
fonts, embed-code, performance, css
Introducing the JSR Open Governance Board (tin+/den)1838
introductions, jsr, typescript, community
There Are a Lot of Ways to Break Up Long Tasks in JavaScript (mac)1837
web-workers, performance
Vite With TypeScript (rwi)1836
vite, migrating, typescript, configuration
Is npm Enough? Why Startups Are Coming After This JavaScript Package Registry (kat/red)1835
npm, jsr, bun, pnpm, yarn
How to Set WebGL Shader Colors With CSS and JavaScript (nma)1834
how-tos, webgl, css
Page Bloat Update: How Does Ever-Increasing Page Size Affect Your Business and Your Users? (tam/spe)1833
performance, trends, metrics, images, desktop, mobile
What Text Area Popovers Taught Me About Browser APIs (bla)1832
html, forms, apis
How Long Is a Second in JavaScript? (iag)1831
The Modern Way to Write JavaScript Servers (mar)1830
nodejs, servers
You’re Overthinking Web Components (all)1829
web-components
JavaScript Temporal Is Coming (bsm/mdn)1828
apis, time
Exploring AI, Web Development, and Accessibility in Tech With Stefan Judis (ste+/wea)1827
videos, interviewing, ai, runtimes, accessibility, screen-readers, craft
My Website Has Been Gaslighting You (dav)1826
css, colors, effects
Simplify Lazy Loading With Intersection Observer’s “scrollMargin” (fro)1825
scrolling, apis, lazy-loading, performance
Generating Test Values Using JavaScript Generators1824
typescript, functions, testing
Google Begins Requiring JavaScript for Google Search (kyl)1823
google
SolidJS Creator on Confronting Web Framework Complexity1822
frameworks, angular, vuejs, multi-page-apps, single-page-apps, complexity, outlooks
JavaScript’s “Promise.race” and “Promise.all” Are Not “Fair” (chr)1821
promises
Making “this” Less Annoying (dav)1820
formatting, configuration
Using SVGs on Canvas With Compose Multiplatform (eev)1819
canvas, svg, images
What Is a Callback Function? (cfe)1818
callbacks, functions
JavaScript Hashing Speed Comparison: MD5 Versus SHA-256 (lem)1817
hashing, performance, comparisons, bun, nodejs
All JavaScript Keyboard Shortcut Libraries Are Broken1816
libraries, keyboard-shortcuts
Oracle Refuses to Yield JavaScript Trademark, Deno Land Says (inf)1815
oracle, deno, legal
Sharing a Variable Across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (chr/fro)1814
variables, html, css
Exploring Modern JavaScript Compilers: Why Oxc Matters for the Developer Community (hac)1813
oxc, compiling, tooling
5 Technical JavaScript Trends You Need to Know About in 20251812
trends, architecture, serverless, webassembly, state-management, typescript, type-safety, micro-frontends
2024 JavaScript Rising Stars1811
frameworks, libraries, react, vuejs, tooling, mobile, desktop, state-management, ai, css-in-js, testing, graphql, retrospectives
Progressive Enhancement Brings Everyone In (jay)1810
progressive-enhancement, history, advocacy, link-lists
Reckoning: Frontend’s Lost Decade (sli/per)1809
videos, performance, web-platform
Top PHP Alternative for Web Development?1808
php, java, python, ruby, go, rust
JavaScript Frameworks—Heading Into 2025 (rya/thi)1807
frameworks, performance, complexity, maintainability
Relatively New Things You Should Know About HTML Heading Into 2025 (chr/fro)1806
html, forms, toggles, pop-overs, import-maps, css, transitions
The Difference Between HTML Attributes and Properties (pau/clo)1805
html, attributes, terminology
What’s Actually Happening With JS Frameworks1804
videos, frameworks, trends
Refactoring a Web Performance Snippet for Security and Best Practice (the)1803
performance, metrics, refactoring
View Transitions Snippets: Getting All Animations Linked to a View Transition (bra)1802
css, view-transitions, apis
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Vector Database1801
introductions, databases, vector-databases, ai, openai
Breaking Up With Long Tasks or: How I Learned to Group Loops and Wield the Yield (rvi/per)1800
performance, loops
Shallow Clones Versus Structured Clones (phi)1799
After Rome Failure, VoidZero Is the Newest Attempt to Create Unified JavaScript Toolchain (inf)1798
voidzero, tooling
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess1797
performance
Broadcast Channel API (5t3)1796
apis
Important Topics for Frontend Developers to Master in 20251795
learning, typescript, css, frameworks, git, apis, testing, performance, security, ci-cd, websockets
“AsyncLocalStorage”: Simplify Context Management in Node.js (tre)1794
nodejs, asynchronicity
JS Import Maps (5t3)1793
dependencies, import-maps
How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS (css)1792
how-tos, forms, css
WebAssembly JavaScript Interface (w3c)1791
standards, webassembly, apis
State of JavaScript 2024 [Results] (sac/dev)1790
surveys, metrics
11 Essential JavaScript Hooking Techniques for Reverse Engineering in 2024 (xiu)1789
debugging, techniques
Your JavaScript Bundle Is Too Fat1788
bundling, performance, dependencies, code-splitting, lazy-loading, tree-shaking, minification, optimization
5 Technical Trends to Help Web Developers Stand Out in 20251787
trends, career, security, ai, low-and-no-code
Native HTML Light and Dark Color Scheme Switching (pep/mat)1786
dark-mode, html, css, functionality
Understanding the Main Thread in the Browser (per)1785
browsers, dom
Publishing a Simple Client-Side JavaScript Package to npm With GitHub Actions (sim)1784
dependencies, npm, github-actions
Just Say “No” to JavaScript (nic/inf)1783
typescript, programming
Creating an Effective Multistep Form for Better User Experience (sma)1782
forms, html, user-experience
Let’s Learn Generators in JavaScript1781
functions
Observation: CSS Math Eval (kiz)1780
css, math
The 5 Most Transformative JavaScript Features From ES15 (tar)1779
ecmascript
Contributing to JavaScript and TypeScript (rob)1778
videos, typescript, foss, standards
Building Better CLI Apps (mol)1777
videos, typescript, command-line, tooling
Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark (tin/den)1776
deno, oracle, legal
JavaScript Events Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners1775
guides, events
Mastering JavaScript Event Delegation1774
events
Exploring Alternative Interactions in JavaScript (dev)1773
videos, ai, interaction-design
Mastering Accessible Modals With ARIA and Keyboard Navigation (a11)1772
accessibility, keyboard-navigation, aria, modals
State of JavaScript 2024 (sac/dev)1771
surveys
Importing a Frontend JavaScript Library Without a Build System (b0r)1770
libraries, commonjs, esm, nodejs, html
The Art of Clean Code: A Practical Guide to Writing Maintainable JavaScript1769
guides, principles, maintainability
Exploring JavaScript Symbols (tre)1768
Self-Contained Executable Programs With Deno Compile (tin/den)1767
deno, typescript, compiling
Understanding Bitwise Shifts in JavaScript: “<<” and “>>” (tre)1766
operators
JavaScript Import Attributes (ES2025) (tre)1765
security
Why Does JavaScript’s “parseInt(0.0000005)” Print “5”?1764
How a BBC Navigation Bar Component Broke Depending on Which External Monitor It Was On (jos)1763
debugging, case-studies
The Path to Learn Web Development (fla)1762
learning, http, html, css, tooling, git, typescript, databases, frameworks
Mapping Over Promises in JavaScript (pmb)1761
promises
Should Web Designers Learn JavaScript or CSS? (ope)1760
design, career, css
Celebrating Innovation and Impact: JavaScriptLandia Community Awards (ope)1759
community
Maybe It Isn’t JavaScript (gee)1758
videos, seo, google
How Bun Supports V8 APIs Without Using V8 II (bun)1757
bun, v8, apis
How Do HTML Event Handlers Work? (tbr)1756
html, events
How to Test JavaScript for Accessibility Compliance (flo/a11)1755
how-tos, accessibility, compliance, wcag, testing
JavaScript’s “&&=” Operator: Understanding Logical “AND” Assignment (tre)1754
operators
JavaScript’s “??=” Operator: Default Values Made Simple (tre)1753
operators
Introducing the vlt Package Manager and Serverless Registry (dar+/vlt)1752
introductions, dependencies, serverless, tooling
JavaScript Do’s and Don’ts (mua)1751
accessibility
How to Roll Your Own Auth in JavaScript and TypeScript (rwi)1750
how-tos, authentication, typescript
What Is the JavaScript Pipeline Operator “|>” (tre)1749
operators
Octoverse: AI Leads Python to Top Language as the Number of Global Developers Surges1748
research, github, community, ai, programming, python, typescript, java, php, shells, go
JavaScript Best Practices (jet)1747
best-practices
20 JavaScript Tricks Every Developer Must Know1746
tips-and-tricks
JavaScript Truthy and Falsy: A Deep Dive (tre)1745
deep-dives
How We Shrunk Our JavaScript Monorepo Git Size by 94%1744
monorepos, git
Front End Debugging: Not Just Console Log (deb)1743
debugging, console, dom
Passing Data to New Window Using JavaScript1742
comparisons
Should JavaScript Be Split Into Two Languages? New Google-Driven Proposal Divides Opinion1741
ecmascript, google, runtimes
Set the Default Time Zone in Node.js (ste)1740
nodejs, internationalization, localization, time
Why I’m Skeptical of Rewriting JavaScript Tools in “Faster” Languages (nol)1739
tooling, programming
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents (sli)1738
web-platform, mobile, mobile-first, native, performance, user-experience
How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP and PostgreSQL in JavaScript1737
how-tos, images, search, ai, openai, postgresql, databases, functionality
How to Convert CommonJS to ESM (den)1736
how-tos, conversion, commonjs, esm
Does Deno 2 Really Uncomplicate JavaScript? (fir)1735
videos, deno, jsr, comparisons
The Greatness and Limitations of the “js-framework-benchmark” (nol)1734
frameworks, tooling, performance, metrics
I Didn’t Know You Could Use Sibling Parameters as Default Values in Functions (mac)1733
functions
The Secrets of JavaScript Object Property Order1732
objects
Handling Paste Events in JavaScript (ray/fro)1731
events
JS Frameworks, in Their Own Words (by Word Cloud) (j9t)1730
frameworks, react, vuejs, angular, svelte, express, meteor, nextjs, comparisons
Dive Into WebGPU (oka)1729
introductions, webgpu
The Popover API: Your New Best Friend for Tooltips (dev)1728
pop-overs, apis, tooltips, html, css
Floating in Space—Animations With Compose and Canvas (eev)1727
canvas, animations
10 JavaScript Concepts Every Node Developer Must Master1726
nodejs, concepts
Unleash JavaScript’s Potential With Functional Programming (jan)1725
programming, comparisons
How Bun Supports V8 APIs Without Using V8 (bun)1724
bun, v8, apis, comparisons
You Might Not Need That Framework (fro)1723
frameworks
Disable Console Logs in Production in Next.js (ami)1722
nextjs, console, logging
A Guide to Destructuring in JavaScript (wil/pic)1721
guides, examples
Compile and Run C in JavaScript (jar/bun)1720
compiling
Don’t Sleep on AbortController1719
This New JavaScript Operator Is an Absolute Game Changer (tar)1718
operators
Hacking Cars in JavaScript (Running Replay Attacks in the Browser With the HackRF) (dev)1717
security
Oracle, It’s Time to Free JavaScript (tin+)1716
licensing, legal, oracle
How to Use JavaScript With LangChain: A Step-by-Step Guide1715
how-tos, guides, langchain
Bitwise Operators in JavaScript and When to Use Them (8ho)1714
operators