Why Patching Globals Is Harmful

Why I believe patching globals is a bad API design.

https://kettanaito.com/blog/why-patching-globals-is-harmful

Building a Chat Integration with Google Gemini

Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2024/04/30/building-a-chat-integration-with-google-gemini

Why don’t we talk about minifying CSS anymore?

Remember Grunt files? Gulp files? We rarely need to think about CSS minification, chunking, splitting and post-processing anymore. Here's why.

https://blog.sentry.io/why-dont-we-talk-about-minifying-css/

Introducing the Gulp Developer Survey

Share your feedback before May 31st

https://medium.com/gulpjs/introducing-the-gulp-developer-survey-cc227fc2fb6d

Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility And You Should Too

When I talk about web accessibility I tend to take a pretty broad view. Technically, you could...

https://dev.to/schalkneethling/why-i-care-deeply-about-web-accessibility-and-you-should-too-274a

A Brief Note on Highlighted Text

TL;DR: If you plan to style text highlighted by the browser, you must give it sufficient contrast — 3:1 for the highlight block against its background and (probably) 4.5:1 for the text within that highlighted block against that background. CSS Context CSS provides methods to style the highlights that browsers…

https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/a-brief-note-on-highlighted-text.html

Leveraging React Server Components in RedwoodJS

RedwoodJS announced support for server-side rendering and RSCs in its Bighorn release. Explore this feature for when it's production-ready.

https://blog.logrocket.com/leveraging-react-server-components-redwoodjs/

The evolution of Figma’s mobile engine: Figma’s journey to TypeScript

Figma's team recently converted one of its codebases from a custom programming language to TypeScript without disrupting a single day of development.

https://www.figma.com/blog/figmas-journey-to-typescript-compiling-away-our-custom-programming-language/

Target=_blank implies rel=noopener

In modern browsers there's no need to define rel="noopener" because it's set automatically.

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/target-blank-implies-rel-noopener/

New alternatives to innerHTML

getHTML, setHTML, setHTMLUnsafe, declarative shadow DOM and sanitization

https://fullystacked.net/innerhtml-alternatives/

5 Node Version Managers Compared — Which is Right for You?

Explore the best Node.js version managers: nvm, n, fnm, volta, and pnpm. Find out which fits your needs with our detailed comparison

https://pavel-romanov.com/5-node-version-managers-compared-which-is-right-for-you

The Forensics Of React Server Components (RSCs)

React Server Components (RSCs) combine the best of client-side rendering, and author Lazar Nikolov thoroughly examines how we got here with a deep look at the impact that RSCs have on the page load timeline.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/05/forensics-react-server-components/

ReScript vs. TypeScript: Overview and comparison

Many modern web developers are embracing emerging technologies that improve the speed of development as well as the quality of …

https://blog.logrocket.com/rescript-vs-typescript/

Angular 18 will arrive next week

The next major version of Google’s web framework will move deferred views and built-in control flow from developer preview to stable.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715328/angular-18-will-arrive-next-week.html

Meta Releases Open Source React Compiler

The React Compiler makes it possible to optimize code for performance. Meta has been using the compiler for more than a year.

https://thenewstack.io/meta-releases-open-source-react-compiler/