Remy Sharp: There are two JavaScripts. One for the server – where you can go wild. One for the client – that should be thoughtful and careful. Yes, a thousand times YES! Two JavaScripts →
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JavaScript: Restart all CSS Animations of an Element
Recently built a demo that demonstrated a specific animation. Only problem: if you missed it, you had no way of restarting it. Instead of forcing the visitor to reload the page, this little JavaScript-snippet – attached to a button click – did the trick: const restartAnimations = ($el) => { $el.getAnimations().forEach((anim) => { anim.cancel(); anim.play(); …
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Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
Bundle, transpile, install and run JavaScript & TypeScript projects — all in Bun. Bun is a new JavaScript runtime with a native bundler, transpiler, task runner and npm client built-in. I’ve been following Jarred’s progress on Twitter over the past few weeks and it’s impressive what he has achieved. Building Bun, he also landed a …
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GitHub: How we think about browsers
GitHub is currently shipping ES2019-compatible code, and will soon ship ES2020 code. GitHub will soon be serving JavaScript using syntax features found in the ECMAScript 2020 standard, which includes the optional chaining and nullish coalescing operators. This change will lead to a 10kb reduction in JavaScript across the site. Wow, won’t that exclude a whole …
Dark Mode Toggles Should be a Browser Feature
Bringing Page Transitions to the Web
At this year’s Google I/O, Jake presented the revised version of the Transition API: Native apps often feature transitions between states that both look great and help communicate the type of navigation to the user. The bad news: creating transitions between pages on the web is impossible. In-page transitions are possible, but complex. The good …
Max Cooper – Symphony in Acid
Embedded above is the video clip for Max Cooper’s Symphony in Acid This video is from my ‘Unspoken Words’ project, where I tried to express things with music and visual art which I could not put into words. I turned to the writing of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who tackled this issue of the problems with words …
What’s new in Node.js core?
Simon Plenderleith gives a roundup of the new stuff that landed in Node since September 2021. Deep clone values (using structuredClone) Auto cancel async operations Fetch API Import JSON modules Abort API additions readline/promises API Corepack I’m especially excited about native fetch() support making it into Node 17. Note that you must enabled it using …
What’s new in ECMAScript 2022
Pawel Grzybek gives us a good overview of the ES2022 features The ECMAScript 2022 Language Specification candidate is now available. Even though the final version will be approved in June, the list of new features coming to the language this year is already defined. Let’s look at what’s coming to ECMAScript specification in 2022. What’s …
What’s new in @bramus/specificity v2
Back in February I created @bramus/specificity, an NPM package to calculate the Specificity of CSS Selectors. As that version was more of a thought experiment/POC, there was a lot of room for improvement. Yesterday, after 11 betas, version 2.0.0 of @bramus/specificity was released. Let’s take a look … Quick Example To give you an idea …