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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will.…
Read MoreWho’s Afraid of a Hard Page Load?
The friction involved with a hard page load doesn’t exist because web developers are too lazy to do performance work—it…
Read MoreMicroservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford
In a startup, your survival depends on how quickly you can iterate, ship features, and deliver value to end-users. This is…
Read MoreDecent Apps
A decent app is a fully local web app—everything, including the LLM, runs in the user’s browser. A decent app…
Read MoreNavigating Frontend System Design Interviews with the CCDAO Framework
So, how do you effectively prepare for a frontend system design interview when you’re unsure where to begin? That’s exactly…
Read MoreStop Chasing New JavaScript Frameworks: Build with Fundamentals Instead
Source: Stop Chasing New JavaScript Frameworks: Build with Fundamentals Instead 🏗️ – DEV Community
Read MoreKeep Product Teams Shipping Faster with Successful Frontend Migrations
The company wants more features, faster. You go to your boss and suggest that reducing build times could increase the…
Read MoreOptimizing Single-Page Applications (SPAs)
Single-page applications (SPAs) have unique page speed optimization challenges. Let’s go through some common web performance issues with SPAs, and…
Read MoreThe Modern CDN Means Complex Decisions for Developers
Whether you were building a web site or an application, hosting choices used to be about bandwidth, latency, security and…
Read MoreA Gentle Introduction to CRDTs – vlcn.io
Conflict Free Replicated Data types (CRDTs) can be tricky. You may spend months reading papers and implementing different algorithms before…
Read MoreThings people get wrong about Electron
Electron’s choices, especially the very idea of building interfaces with web tech and shipping large parts of Chromium to render…
Read MoreBuild for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant
If you’re going to build for the web, build on the web and build with the web.If I was only…
Read MoreMoving on from React, a Year Later
Maybe it’s the changing interest rates or political winds, but I think the “fat client” era JS-heavy frontends is on…
Read More5 Technical JavaScript Trends You Need To Know About in 2025
JavaScript remains the foundation of modern web development — not because it’s convenient, but because it’s relentless. It’s the most…
Read MoreProgressive enhancement brings everyone in
As designers and developers began building on the web, they brought the spirit of graceful degradation with them. Browsers were…
Read MoreIsomorphic Web Components
Web components might be great, if only you could render them on the server.Or can you? The lack of server-side…
Read MoreIf Not React, Then What?
While I’d like to be spending most of this time working through improvements to web APIs, the majority of time…
Read MoreI don’t have time to learn React – Keith Cirkel
During the 6 or 7 years I was not programming in React, it has changed so much that I barely…
Read MoreIntroducing our grid-aware websites project – Green Web Foundation
Our mission at Green Web Foundation is working towards a fossil-free internet by 2030. There’s no single magic answer in…
Read MoreWhat’s a Single-Page App? | jakelazaroff.com
Source: What’s a Single-Page App? | jakelazaroff.com
Read MorePlatform Strategy and Its Discontents – Infrequently Noted
Web developers and browsers have capped the web’s mobile potential by ensuring it will feel terrible on the phones most…
Read MoreWhere web components shine
In this job we need to think a lot about the tools we choose and why, so I cataloged all…
Read MoreThe Shadow DOM is an antipattern
In my video on building a modern web app with vanilla Web Components, I mentioned that I believe the Shadow…
Read MoreHow Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components
Microsoft’s Edge browser team is on a mission to swap out React UI components with native web platform components. We…
Read MoreWeb Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay
Frankly, if framework authors were sold the idea that web components would be a compile target for their frameworks, and…
Read MoreWeb Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present
It’s disappointing that some of the most outspoken individuals against Web Components are framework maintainers. These individuals are, after all,…
Read MoreWeb Components Are Not the Future
But my experience then and my experience since only points me to a single conclusion. Web Components possibly pose the…
Read MoreWeb components are okay | Read the Tea Leaves
Every so often, the web development community gets into a tizzy about something, usually web components. I find these fights…
Read MoreSingle page applications–GOV.UK
Do not build your service as a single-page application (SPA). This is where the loading of pages within your service…
Read MoreBuilding a robust frontend using progressive enhancement – Service Manual – GOV.UK
For users to experience a quality service it must be built in a robust way.Progressive enhancement is a way of…
Read MoreSPA by default
SPAs incur complexity that simply doesn’t exist with traditional server-based websites: issues such as search engine optimization, browser history management,…
Read MoreFrontend Schism: Will React Server Components Destroy React?
To quickly summarize, React Server Components (RSCs) are components that run exclusively on the server. As the React team explained…
Read MoreShould we decompose our monolith?
From their first introduction in 2005, the debate between adopting a microservices architecture, a monolithic service architecture, or a hybrid…
Read MoreReckoning: Part 3 — Caprock – Infrequently Noted
JavaScript-based UIs are fundamentally more challenging to own and operate because the limiting factors on their success are outside the…
Read MoreReckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson
GetCalFresh, Wisconsin, and the UK demonstrate that a better future is possible today. To make it happen, then make it…
Read MorePlain Vanilla
This is an overview of the major techniques used to make web sites and web applications without making use of…
Read MorePatterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation with Modern Vanilla JavaScript – Frontend Masters Boost
discuss[es] best practices to avoid excess memory usage when managing updating the DOM to make your apps blazingly fast™️. Source:…
Read MoreAfter a Decade of React, Is Frontend a Post-React World Now?
Given how dominant React has become in the frontend development ecosystem since Oscon 2014, in this article I’ll revisit the…
Read MoreLocal, first, forever
Source: Local, first, forever @ tonsky.me
Read MoreLessons learned in 35 years of making software
Do things in the most straightforward way possible. It’s easy to fall into the trap of clever solutions, or clever…
Read MoreView transitions + speculative rules
I’ve been very interested in the potential of view transitions since they were called navigation transitions. Recently, they’ve landed in…
Read MoreIsland Architecture with Web Components
Island Architecture is a concept first described by Katie Sylor-Miller and later expanded upon by Jason Miller in his post.…
Read MoreThe Frontend Treadmill – These Yaks Ain’t Gonna Shave Themselves
Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get…
Read MoreFuturistic Progressive Enhancement – Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes…
Read MoreReact, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity – Baldur Bjarnason
The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense,…
Read MoreInterview with a Senior JS Developer 2024
The satirical interview series from Programmers are also human is always worth a watch, with a genuine understanding of the…
Read MoreA React Developers Guide to Writing Enhance Components
Frequently, we are asked by React developers why patterns they have learned while writing components using JSX do not translate…
Read MoreStreaming HTML – Frontend Masters Boost
Quick summary: Streamed HTML is as you imagine it. Rather than serving the entire HTML document at once, servers serve…
Read MoreHow I’d use generative AI to modernize an app
So I won’t sit here and tell you that generative AI makes app modernization easy. Nothing does. It’s hard work…
Read MoreIt feels like React is getting a bit of a kicking recently – Piccalilli
I talk about an apparent attitude shift in attitude towards React in the community and also make some recommendations about…
Read MoreThe Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 – Infrequently Noted
The global device and network situation continues to evolve, and this series is an effort to provide an an up-to-date…
Read MoreHTML Web Components on the Server Are Great | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
I’ll start this post by echoing what many others have been saying: Web Components are having a moment lately! After…
Read MoreOn Web Components – macwright.com
There’s just this assumption that now that React is potentially on its way out (after a decade-long reign! not bad),…
Read Morejakelazaroff.com
I don’t see web components on their own as a huge productivity boon for individual websites. Once you’ve bought into…
Read MoreThe Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist | jakelazaroff.com
You don’t need to wade far into web development discourse to hear about the website vs. web app dichotomy. It…
Read MoreRemoving React is just weakness leaving your codebase — Begin Blog
Well, there must have been something in the zeitgeist, as we’ve seen a spate of articles where developers are voicing…
Read MoreWebAssembly is like JSON for behaviour
If you’re sending data from one computer to another, it’s probably JSON. But it hasn’t always been this way. Source:…
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