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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
Fixing Top-Level Await in Safari (hei/web)2251
safari, browsers, asynchronicity, webkit, browser-engines
Bumping the Major Version of Your JavaScript Library Is User Hostile (jam)2250
libraries, semver, versioning
The Depths of JavaScript: Minesweeper in 247 Bytes2249
minimalism, functionality
Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web (bka)2248
apis, html
Music Theory for Programmers (luk)2247
Why I Ported Moonshine to JavaScript (pet)2246
migrating
Your Modules Are Lying to You2245
esm, commonjs, modules
Building an Accordion the Browser Can Search2244
accordions, hiding, search, html, css
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript (jad/sma)2243
dependencies, browsers, support, web-platform
Working With “::highlight()” Using Progressive Enhancement (sun/pic)2242
css, apis, progressive-enhancement
Progressive Enhancement Inside of JavaScript (rem)2241
progressive-enhancement
We Finally Learned to Center a Div, Then Browsers Added Sidebars2240
css, centering, browsers
Your JSON Is Lying to You2239
json, console
A11y 101—3.3.4 Error Prevention (nat)2238
introductions, accessibility, wcag, errors, html
Same Name; Different Component With Scoped Custom Element Registries (fro)2237
web-components, browsers
Building the ChatGPT Typing Effect (jsd)2236
chatgpt, effects
When It Makes Sense to “Block” the Main Thread (sma)2235
performance
Protecting HTML Content Against Copying (jsd)2234
html, css, canvas, obfuscation, techniques, comparisons
I Stopped Destructuring Everything2233
HTML in Canvas: Render Real DOM Inside “<canvas>”2232
html, canvas
Fetch Needs Error Codes (jas)2231
data-fetching, errors
The Browser’s Main Thread Is Expensive2230
performance, optimization, worker-threads
Proxy and Reflect (wil/pic)2229
objects
Time-Based Background Colour Transitions With Temporal and CSS Color-Mix (sop)2228
apis, time, css
Do We Still Need Build Tools? (oll)2227
css, building, tooling
The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events (dxn/css)2226
css, state-management, selectors, events
Animating the “dialog” Element Using View Transitions (rik)2225
modals, html, animations, view-transitions, css
The Siren Song of “ariaNotify()” (wil/css)2224
aria, notifications, attributes, html, jaws, nvda, voiceover, screen-readers, accessibility
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript (sir/web)2223
videos, minimalism, dependencies, standards
Dark Mode With Web Standards (oll)2222
dark-mode, standards, html, svg, css
The Quiet Problem With Unnecessary Async2221
asynchronicity
Streaming HTML (oll)2220
html, streaming
Astro: HTML First, JavaScript When You Need It (jad)2219
astro, html
Gary Illyes: The Web’s JavaScript Mess Is an AI Agent Nightmare (ppc)2218
ai, ai-agents, html, rag, llmstxt
Everything You Need to Know About Sourcemaps (nec)2217
source-maps
CSS vs. JavaScript (jos)2216
css, animations, comparisons
JS Crossword (reb)2215
Accessible by Design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and ARIA Techniques That Scale2214
videos, accessibility, html, css, aria
Saying Goodbye to asm.js (eqr/spi)2213
spidermonkey, javascript-engines, firefox, browsers
Intentionally Blocking Rendering With JavaScript (jay)2212
rendering, painting, web-components
TypeScript, C#, and Turbo Pascal With Anders Hejlsberg (ahe/ger)2211
videos, interviews, programming, typescript, microsoft
Zoomable Image—Creating a Zoom Effect (bar)2210
zooming, images, effects, hugo, css
Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm (wil/css)2209
ecmascript, apis
I Keep Tripping Over “true, false, true”2208
CSS Math “random()” in Production: Native Randomness Without JavaScript2207
css, math, functions, randomness, performance, accessibility
The “<selectmenu>” Element: Stop Using JavaScript Dropdown Libraries2206
html, forms, css
Out With the JS, in With the HTML (jim)2205
html, refactoring
Your Recursion Is Lying to You2204
software-design-patterns
A Compiler Engineer’s Walkthrough of JavaScript Spread Arguments (hac)2203
compiling
Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web (moz)2202
security, open-web, firefox, browsers
Devtools: How to Query Through the Shadow DOM (rem)2201
how-tos, shadow-dom, dev-tools, browsers
Preserving DOM Changes Across Live Reloads (kit)2200
dom, eleventy
Canvas-ing the Web (mey)2199
canvas
replacements.fyi (430/e18)2198
websites, dependencies, refactoring, migrating, maintenance
Constructable Stylesheets and “adoptedStyleSheets”: One Parse, Every Shadow Root (fro)2197
web-components, lit, css, apis, shadow-dom
Visual Validation Feedback for Form Fields (aar)2196
html, forms, validation
The Web Is Fun Again: First Experiments With HTML in Canvas (ami/fro)2195
experiments, html, canvas
What’s Actually New in JavaScript (and What’s Coming Next) (nec)2194
ecmascript, standards, retrospectives, outlooks
Why I Don’t Chain Everything in JavaScript Anymore2193
Making Dark Mode Play Nicely With BFCache2192
dark-mode, bfcache
Creating Custom Page Transitions in Astro With Barba.js and GSAP (cod)2191
astro, gsap, tooling, animations
You Can’t Cancel a JavaScript Promise (Except Sometimes You Can) (inn)2190
promises
RFC JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript2189
tooling
“Intl” Can Localize Units, Too (ste)2188
localization, units
What to Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition) (chr/fro)2187
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)2186
podcasts, interviews, libraries, lodash, foss, maintenance
Your Options for Preloading Images With JavaScript (mac)2185
images, preloading, techniques
Your Debounce Is Lying to You2184
software-design-patterns, debouncing
Building a Runtime With QuickJS (hea)2183
quickjs, runtimes, functionality
Shadow DOM Focus Delegation: Getting “delegatesFocus” Right (fro)2182
accessibility, shadow-dom, focus, lit, web-components
Uses for Nested Promises2181
promises, asynchronicity
JavaScript for Everyone: Destructuring (wil/css)2180
examples
How to Burn $30M on a JavaScript Framework… (fir)2179
videos, frameworks, famous
JavaScript Thinks Everything’s a Date2178
time, v8, javascriptcore, python
The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat (430)2177
dependencies, complexity, runtimes, architecture, polyfills
Form-Associated Custom Elements in Practice (fro)2176
web-components, forms
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript (jas)2175
time, apis, retrospectives
Building Dynamic Forms in React and Next.js (sma)2174
forms, react, nextjs
Source Maps: Shipping Features Through Standards (jon)2173
source-maps
Testing Browser Support for “focusgroup” (ada)2172
html, attributes, focus
You Don’t Know HTML Tables2171
html, tables
Date Math in JavaScript: The Hidden Trap You’ll Eventually Hit (phi/hac)2170
time, math, apis
Seven Years to TypeScript: Migrating 11,000 Files at Patreon2169
migrating, typescript, case-studies
Proxying Fetch Requests in Server-Side JavaScript (nza)2168
data-fetching, nodejs, deno, bun, cloudflare
Popover API or Dialog API: Which to Choose? (zel/css)2167
pop-overs, modals, apis, accessibility
External Import Maps, Today (lea)2166
import-maps
Getting Started With the Popover API (sma)2165
introductions, pop-overs, tooltips, apis
January 2026 Baseline Monthly Digest (mal)2164
browsers, support, web-platform, css, view-transitions, web-workers, apis, units
JavaScript DRMs Are Stupid and Useless2163
drm
We Deserve a Better Streams API for JavaScript (jas)2162
streaming, apis
A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets (val/css)2161
guides, bookmarklets, link-lists
16 Modern JavaScript Features That Might Blow Your Mind2160
Rewriting a 12-Year-Old JavaScript Library in TypeScript2159
refactoring, typescript
Goodbye “innerHTML”, Hello “setHTML”: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 (moz)2158
methods, xss, security, firefox, browsers
From “instanceof” to “Error.isError”: Safer Error Checking in JavaScript2157
errors
Dictionary Compression Is Finally Here, and It’s Ridiculously Good (pim/htt)2156
compression, performance
Wasm vs. JavaScript: Who Wins at a Million Rows?2155
webassembly, comparisons, performance
We Cut Node.js’ Memory in Half (mco/pla)2154
nodejs, v8, memory, metrics
5 Source Map Best Practices for Frontend Production Deployments (ele/des)2153
guest-posts, source-maps, best-practices
JS-Heavy Approaches Are Not Compatible With Long-Term Performance Goals (ser)2152
frameworks, performance, prioritization
Quick and Dirty Linting (sto)2151
linting, typescript, biome
It’s About to Get a Lot Easier for Your JavaScript to Clean Up After Itself (wil/pic)2150
garbage-collection
Building an Endless Procedural Snake With Three.js and WebGL (suj/cod)2149
threejs, webgl
Vite, Rust, and the Future of JavaScript Tooling (eva+/bet)2148
videos, interviews, vuejs, rust, oxc, bundling, tooling, ai
Why JavaScript Needs Structured Concurrency2147
concurrency, asynchronicity
Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems2146
libraries, apis, web-platform
A Percise Parser (rem)2145
parsing
State of JavaScript 2025 [Results] (sac/dev)2144
surveys, metrics
Explicit Resource Management in JavaScript2143
View Transitions and Playing Video (chr/fro)2142
view-transitions, multimedia
StyleX vs. Tailwind: Meta’s Take on CSS-in-JS Maintainability2141
tailwind, comparisons, css-in-js, maintainability, css
The Unhinged World of Tech in 2026… (fir)2140
videos, outlooks, ai
So You Think Your Website Is Doing Great (cit)2139
html, css, quality
Stop Turning Everything Into Arrays (and Do Less Work Instead)2138
methods, arrays
Aspire for JavaScript Developers (dav)2137
tooling, typescript
How Wrong Can a JavaScript Date Calculation Go? (phi)2136
time, apis
Beyond the Mouse: Animating With Mobile Accelerometers (ami/fro)2135
mobile, animations
Web Dependencies Are Broken—Can We Fix Them? (lea)2134
dependencies, import-maps, web-platform
Date Is Out, Temporal Is In (wil/pic)2133
time
2025 JavaScript Rising Stars2132
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)2131
dependencies, maintainability
Streaming JSON in Just 200 Lines of JavaScript2130
streaming, json
JavaScript Frameworks—Heading Into 2026 (rya/thi)2129
frameworks, outlooks, ai
How to Create a Pixel-to-Voxel Video Drop Effect With Three.js and Rapier (cod)2128
how-tos, effects, tooling, gsap, threejs
We Fixed a 6-Year-Old JavaScript Memory Leak (mat/deb)2127
memory
TIL: Why ARM Has a JavaScript Instruction2126
Building a JavaScript Runtime in One Month (the)2125
runtimes, functionality
JavaScript’s “for…of” Loops Are Actually Fast2124
loops, performance
The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs (sli/per)2123
performance, single-page-apps, frameworks, metrics
Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript2122
frameworks, apis, performance, micro-frontends, architecture
How to Dynamically Install Custom Elements (hey)2121
how-tos, web-components, naming
The Fall of JavaScript (yeg)2120
typescript, programming
Trends That Defined JavaScript in 20252119
trends, retrospectives, react, frameworks, tooling, ai
Why Object of Arrays (SoA Pattern) Beat Interleaved Arrays: A JavaScript Performance Rabbit Hole2118
performance, arrays
Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM (mey)2117
shadow-dom, html
Dialog View Transitions (med)2116
modals, view-transitions
Different Page Transitions for Different Circumstances (chr/fro)2115
css, view-transitions, animations
The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix (kat/red)2114
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)2113
migrating, ai, python, tooling, parsing, html
Why We Teach Our Students Progressive Enhancement (cyd)2112
progressive-enhancement, html, css, training
Using the Browser Console for Accessibility Testing (rus)2111
accessibility, testing, console, examples
Discover Dialog (sar/mat)2110
html, modals, css
Design Accessible Animation and Movement With Code Examples (pop)2109
design, accessibility, animations, css, examples
Non-Blocking Cross-Browser Image Rendering on the Canvas (mys/per)2108
canvas, images, performance
What Are DOM Mutations? (rus)2107
accessibility, dom
In 1995, a Netscape Employee Wrote a Hack in 10 Days That Now Runs the Internet (ben/ars)2106
netscape, history
The Nuances of JavaScript Typing Using JSDoc (jar/van)2105
jsdoc, typescript, developer-experience
How Modern Browsers Work (add)2104
browsers, chromium, network, parsing, painting, rendering, javascript-engines, v8, memory, modules, html, css
Category Theory for JavaScript/TypeScript Developers (ibr)2103
typescript, programming, craft
How Microfrontends Work: 3 Integration Strategies2102
micro-frontends, strategies, routing, iframes, ai
CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity2101
css-in-js, css, performance, developer-experience
What Are Invokers? Interactivity Without JavaScript (tol/syn)2100
videos, html, pop-overs
You’re Doing JavaScript Testing Wrong (cfe)2099
testing
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (sli)2098
performance, metrics
Managing Side Effects: A JavaScript Effect System in 30 Lines or Less (ayc)2097
The Last Couple Years in V8’s Garbage Collector (win)2096
v8, javascript-engines, garbage-collection, memory, retrospectives
How We Catch UI Bugs Early With Visual Regression Testing2095
testing, regressions, playwright
Error Chaining in JavaScript: Cleaner Debugging With “Error.cause”2094
errors, debugging
JavaScript Just Leveled Up: ES2025—You’ll Fall in Love With (jsd)2093
ecmascript, standards
Advanced Beginner’s Guide to ClojureScript (rom)2092
guides
The Web Animation Performance Tier List (cit)2091
animations, performance, css, apis
The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps (man/pol)2090
typescript, source-maps
Start Implementing View Transitions on Your Websites Today (cyd/pic)2089
css, view-transitions, apis
Import JavaScript Like It’s 2026 (sto)2088
performance
The JavaScript Feature You’ve Probably Never Used Allows Running Untrusted JavaScript Safely2087
JavaScript for Everyone: Iterators (wil/sma)2086
The Origin Story of JavaScript (ann/cas)2085
videos, history, web, ecmascript, browsers, browser-wars, browser-engines, standards
Directives and the Platform Boundary (tan/tan)2084
frameworks
NaN, the Not-a-Number Number That Isn’t NaN (wil/pic)2083
Importing vs. Fetching JSON (jaf)2082
json, data-fetching, comparisons
The Charm of JavaScript: Boom Mics and Clown Shoes (wil+/iga)2081
podcasts, interviews
An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions (wil/css)2080
introductions
Links and Anchors: Ancient HTML and JS Magic in Your Browser (cod/wea)2079
html, css, links
Rethinking Async Loops in JavaScript2078
loops, asynchronicity
“URLPattern” Is Now Baseline Newly Available2077
urls, apis, web-platform, browsers, support
Why “NaN !== NaN” in JavaScript (and the IEEE 754 Story Behind It)2076
history, standards
You’re a Real JavaScript Developer Only If…2075
career
Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web2074
web-apps, security
What’s Up in ES2027? (por/nor)2073
videos, ecmascript, outlooks
For Your Convenience, This CSS Will Self-Destruct (sco)2072
css, hiding
Secure Coding in JavaScript2071
frameworks, security
Writing an Emulator in JavaScript? (nik/nor)2070
videos
Tips for Working With Emoji (chr)2069
emoji, css, tips-and-tricks
The Future of Lodash (uli)2068
libraries, lodash, outlooks
Find Where a Specific Object Was Allocated in JavaScript With DevTools2067
objects, dev-tools, browsers
Inside a 16.67 Millisecond Frame2066
rendering, reflow, painting, performance
How to Group Arrays in JavaScript Without “reduce()”2065
how-tos, arrays
Smashing Animations: Building Adaptive SVGs With “<symbol>”, “<use>”, and CSS Media Queries (mal/sma)2064
animations, svg, css
A Progressive Enhancement Challenge (chr/fro)2063
progressive-enhancement, html, feature-detection, support
I Want to Intercept Boolean Coercion for Objects in JavaScript (zac)2062
objects, types
You Can Now Make PS2 Games in JavaScript2061
Why “typeof null === object”2060
operators
State of JavaScript 2025 (sac/dev)2059
surveys
Creating a Truly Accessible Flip Card (sib/tpg)2058
html, css, accessibility
Stop Using “.reverse().find()”: Meet “findLast()”2057
methods, arrays
How to Disable Right Click With JavaScript (rik)2056
how-tos
Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints (jon)2055
Frontend JavaScript Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide (get)2054
guides, performance, testing
Fetch Streams Are Great, but Not for Measuring Upload/Download Progress (jaf)2053
data-fetching, apis
The Missing Link in JavaScript Tools (mar)2052
tooling
Just Use HTML (cfe)2051
html
Web Development for Beginners: Frontend Frameworks (rau)2050
frameworks, preact
Finally, Safe Array Methods in JavaScript2049
arrays, methods
Functional Custom Elements the Easy Way (gin/pic)2048
web-components
Why You Should Test Your Page Without JavaScript2047
support, progressive-enhancement, accessibility
Learning Web Development: Asynchronous JavaScript—Promises and “async” Functions (rau)2046
asynchronicity, promises, functions
We Used AI to Compare and Demo 6 JavaScript Charting Libraries (kyl+/web)2045
videos, libraries, visualization, comparisons, ai
Why Do Browsers Throttle JavaScript Timers? (nol)2044
time, browsers
Learning Web Development: JSON and Processing Files in Node.js (rau)2043
json, nodejs, arrays, objects
9 JavaScript Patterns I Wish I Used Earlier2042
software-design-patterns
Learning Web Development: JavaScript Maps (rau)2041
Learning Web Development: JavaScript Exceptions (rau)2040
errors
JavaScript’s Trademark Problem (rau)2039
oracle, legal, deno
You No Longer Need JavaScript (reb)2038
css, html, examples
Learning Web Development: Plain Objects in JavaScript (rau)2037
objects
Learning Web Development: Modules and Testing in JavaScript (rau)2036
modules, testing
Hack to the Future—Frontend (the)2035
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)2034
guest-posts, javascript-engines, v8, spidermonkey, javascriptcore, quickjs, chakracore
JavaScript Engines Zoo2033
javascript-engines, overviews, comparisons, v8, spidermonkey, quickjs, javascriptcore, chakracore
Understanding “Promise.any()”: When One Success Is Enough2032
promises, asynchronicity
Learning Web Development: Loops in JavaScript (rau)2031
loops
Unit Formatting With “Intl” in JavaScript (ray)2030
units, localization
What’s Next for JavaScript? (jsd)2029
outlooks
Learning Web Development: Arrays in JavaScript (rau)2028
arrays
Learning Web Development: Strings and Methods in JavaScript (rau)2027
strings, methods
Learning Web Development: Numbers, Variables, Functions in JavaScript (rau)2026
variables, functions
Eliminating JavaScript Cold Starts on AWS Lambda (goo)2025
lambda, aws, runtimes
JavaScript Is Tough to Master2024
learning
Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—SemVer (mar)2023
performance, semver, versioning, dependencies
A Progressive Complexity Manifesto (che)2022
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)2021
guides, apis, internationalization
Using the Custom Highlight API (chr/fro)2020
apis, css, syntax-highlighting
Building Extensible Frontend Systems (cfe)2019
web-components, extensibility, css
How JavaScript Really Evolves: Inside TC39 With Daniel Ehrenberg (lit+/wee)2018
videos, interviews, ecmascript
How We Made “JSON.stringify” More Than Twice as Fast2017
json, strings, v8, javascript-engines, optimization, performance
Our Fight With Oracle Is Getting Crazy… (den)2016
videos, oracle, legal, licensing
JavaScript Isn’t the Problem—Replacing the Browser Was (p4p/red)2015
single-page-apps, browsers
What Your Website’s Style Says About You—and How Hackers Can Use It Against You (err)2014
security, css
HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?2013
html, frameworks
Logical Assignment Operators in JavaScript: Small Syntax, Big Wins2012
operators
The Many, Many, Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade (shi)2011
runtimes, history
Vanilla JavaScript Support for Tailwind Plus (phi+/tai)2010
tailwind
Never Write Your Own Date Parsing Library (zac)2009
libraries, comparisons, time, parsing
The Untold Story of JavaScript2008
videos, history
Web Serial: The Only Reason I’ll Admit JavaScript Isn’t All Bad2007
A Primer on Focus Trapping (zel/css)2006
introductions, focus, keyboard-navigation, accessibility
Handling JavaScript Event Listeners With Parameters (sma)2005
events
Compile Svelte 5 in Your Head2004
svelte, compiling
Revisiting My 2010 JavaScript Library (dia)2003
retrospectives, libraries, internet-explorer, browsers
Writing “!= null”? That’s What Junior Devs Do—Here’s the Senior Way2002
The Untold Story of JavaScript (den)2001
videos, history
Modern Async Iteration in JavaScript With “Array.fromAsync()”2000
arrays, asynchronicity
Managing the State of Your Promises (ato)1999
state-management, promises
Bulletproof Web Component Loading (cfe)1998
web-components
These 5 Programming Languages Are Quietly Taking Over in 20251997
programming, rust, python, go
JavaScript Scope Hoisting Is Broken (dev)1996
scope, code-splitting
30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web1995
anniversaries, history, ecmascript, ajax, jquery, web-2.0, nodejs, npm, react, typescript, webassembly
JavaScript Is Being Rewritten in Rust (ost/end)1994
rust
I Started Learning JavaScript Again—a Beginner-Friendly Guide to the Basics1993
guides, fundamentals
A Simple Website1992
websites, history, layout, animations, images, tables, ajax, flash, deploying, simplicity
How JSDoc Saved My Dev Workflow (ato)1991
jsdoc, typescript, documentation
Default Parameters: Your Code Just Got Smarter1990
What’s the Difference Between Ordinary Functions and Arrow Functions in JavaScript? (jrs)1989
functions, comparisons
JavaScript Trademark Update (tin/den)1988
legal, oracle
What’s Coming to JavaScript (lca/den)1987
deno
Ecma International Approves ECMAScript 2025: What’s New? (rau)1986
ecmascript
Speculative Optimizations for WebAssembly Using Deopts and Inlining (lie)1985
v8, javascript-engines, webassembly, optimization, speculation
Tips for Making Regular Expressions Easier to Use in JavaScript (rau)1984
regex, tips-and-tricks, examples
Decoding the SVG “path” Element: Curve and Arc Commands (sma)1983
svg, css
Deep Dive Into JavaScript Engine Internals: V8, SpiderMonkey, and Chakra1982
deep-dives, javascript-engines, v8, spidermonkey, chakracore
JavaScript Broke the Web (and Called It Progress) (jon)1981
performance, user-experience, tooling, tech-stacks, history
9 New JavaScript Features in ES2025 (w3c/syn)1980
videos, ecmascript
When Can I Use Temporal?1979
apis, time
JSON Module Scripts Are Now Baseline Newly Available (tom)1978
json, browsers, support, web-platform
Slightly Enhanced Sticky Revealing Footer (cri)1977
navigation, css
Compiling JavaScript Ahead of Time (goo/web)1976
videos, javascript-engines, compiling
JavaScript String “slice()” Considered Harmful (att)1975
strings
Using “await” at the Top Level in ES Modules1974
esm, asynchronicity
CJS vs. AMD vs. UMD vs. ESM: Which JavaScript Module Format Should You Use—and Why It Even Matters1973
nodejs, modules, commonjs, esm, bundling, comparisons
Happy Birthday, JavaScript (ato)1972
anniversaries
Quick Tip: Avoid Event Listeners on the “window” Object (nat)1971
jquery, events, accessibility, tips-and-tricks
Exploring JavaScript (rau)1970
books
How JavaScript Was Written Back in the Day (tre)1969
jquery, history, comparisons
Worker Threads in Node.js: A Complete Guide for Multithreading in JavaScript (nod)1968
guides, nodejs, worker-threads, multithreading
How to Use the Browser Console: An In-Depth Guide (mat/deb)1967
guides, how-tos, dev-tools, console, browsers
5 Best JavaScript Web Scraping Libraries in 2025 (api)1966
libraries, scraping, link-lists
Creating the “Moving Highlight” Navigation Bar With JavaScript and CSS (sma)1965
navigation, effects, css
How to “import()” a JavaScript String (zac)1964
how-tos, strings
“firstChild” Can Be White Space (chr/fro)1963
whitespace
How Imports Work in RSC (dan)1962
react, components, modules
I Copy These 10 Code Snippets Into Every Project1961
debouncing, json, objects, arrays
“document.currentScript” Is More Useful Than I Thought (mac)1960
Is It JavaScript? (jim)1959
browsers, servers, jsx, typescript, terminology
Write More Reliable JavaScript With Optional Chaining1958
reliability
A JavaScript Developer’s Guide to Go (psu)1957
guides, go, examples
Web Bluetooth API Usage—a Practical Guide1956
guides, apis
The 3 Ways JavaScript Frameworks Render the DOM (rya)1955
videos, frameworks, dom, rendering
Why Are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 Different Days in JavaScript?1954
time
A Thought on JavaScript “Proof of Work” Anti-Scraper Systems (cks)1953
ai, scraping
Comparing Rust, JavaScript, and Go for Authoring WASM Components1952
webassembly, components, rust, go, comparisons
JavaScript’s Upcoming Temporal API and What Problems It Will Solve1951
time, apis
Multithreading in JavaScript With Web Workers (hon)1950
multithreading, web-workers, examples
A Brief History of JavaScript (den)1949
history, ecmascript, typescript, json, javascript-engines, runtimes, browsers
You Can Style Alt Text Like Any Other Text (geo/css)1948
alt-text, accessibility, images, css
Make Screen Readers Talk With the ARIA Notify API (ale)1947
accessibility, screen-readers, aria, notifications, apis
Authenticating JavaScript WebSockets1946
websockets, authentication
Introduction to JavaScript Frameworks (rya)1945
introductions, videos, frameworks, react, angular, vuejs, svelte, solidjs
How JavaScript’s “at()” Method Makes Array Indexing Easier1944
arrays
JavaScript in the Morning, JavaScript in the Evening… (ray)1943
localization
The State of JavaScript Debugging in WebAssembly1942
webassembly, debugging
No Server, No Database: Smarter Related Posts in Astro With transformers.js (ale)1941
astro, ai, hugging-face
Handling Routes in JavaScript Projects (sea)1940
routing, frameworks
Styling Console Text in Node.js (rau)1939
nodejs, console
I Think the Ergonomics of Generators Is Growing on Me (mac)1938
functions
JavaScript Compile Hints: What They Are and When to Use Them (tre)1937
compiling, v8, javascript-engines
Building the Bridge: Running JavaScript Modules From Dart1936
modules, esm, commonjs, dart, deno
Migrating a JavaScript Project From Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS (app)1935
migrating, prettier, eslint, biome
The Power of the Spread and Rest Syntax in JavaScript1934
arrays
Event Handling in JAWS and NVDA (sib/tpg)1933
accessibility, screen-readers, jaws, nvda, events, comparisons
JavaScript, When Is This? (wil/pic)1932
Giving V8 a Heads-Up: Faster JavaScript Startup With Explicit Compile Hints1931
v8, javascript-engines, compiling
Converting Values to Strings in JavaScript (rau)1930
conversion
Giving Software Away for Free (sim)1929
foss, hosting, html
Why Care About the No-JS Experience? (cfe)1928
support
Making a Small JavaScript Blog Static Site Generator Even Smaller Using the General “async-tree” Library (jan)1927
static-site-generation, tooling
JavaScript Framework Reality Check: What’s Actually Working1926
frameworks, qwik, solidjs, sveltekit, fresh
Creating CSS Theme Variables From a JS File (mic)1925
css, theming, custom-properties, conversion
Why I’m Not Ready to Abandon JavaScript for “Faster” Languages1924
rust, go, refactoring, performance
Contextual Logging With “console.context()” (pat)1923
console, dev-tools, browsers
When to Use “map()” vs. “forEach()”1922
arrays, comparisons
Optimizing Node.js Performance: V8 Memory Management and GC Tuning (mco/pla)1921
nodejs, performance, optimization, v8, javascript-engines, memory, garbage-collection
Float16Array in JavaScript (tre)1920
arrays
Next Level CSS Styling for Cursors (val/css)1919
css, cursors
A Flowing WebGL Gradient, Deconstructed1918
webgl, gradients, math
Mastering Default Values in JavaScript With the Nullish Coalescing (“??”) Operator1917
operators
Exploring TypeScript: TS 5.8 Edition (rau)1916
books, typescript
Some Features That Every JavaScript Developer Should Know in 20251915
arrays, promises, prototypes, variables
Hiding Elements That Require JavaScript Without JavaScript (0xd)1914
css, html
Debugging JavaScript Memory Leaks (jar/bun)1913
memory, debugging, dev-tools, chrome, browsers, bun
A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript1912
npm, dependencies, history
React 19’s New Hooks: With Practical Examples (let)1911
react, hooks, examples
Deno vs. Oracle Update 3: Fighting the JavaScript Trademark (tin/den)1910
deno, oracle, legal, history
Breaking Down Circular Dependencies in JavaScript1909
dependencies
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright (css)1908
regressions, testing, automation, playwright
Could JavaScript Have Synchronous “await”? (rau)1907
asynchronicity
JavaScript’s Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution1906
wasp, frameworks, history
Land Ahoy: Leaving the Sea of Nodes1905
v8, javascript-engines, compiling
War Story: The Hardest Bug I Ever Debugged (jak)1904
debugging, v8, chrome, browsers, bugs
UI Algorithms: A Tiny Undo Stack (jul)1903
algorithms, functionality, undo-redo
JavaScript Basics for a Senior Dev1902
fundamentals, concepts, examples
Previewing Content Changes in Your Work With “document.designMode” (sma)1901
browsers, dev-tools, content, design
Stop Chasing New JavaScript Frameworks: Build With Fundamentals Instead1900
fundamentals, frameworks, react, vuejs, angular, svelte, solidjs
SSR Deep Dive for React Developers1899
deep-dives, server-side-rendering, react
How WebAssembly Components Can Replace JavaScript SDKs (sac)1898
webassembly, components
Why the Latest JavaScript Frameworks Are a Waste of Time1897
frameworks, react, angular
“Intl.DurationFormat”: Format Time Durations With Locale Support (tre)1896
localization
A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle (hil)1895
parsing, history
On JavaScript Closures (With Examples of Interview Questions) (mar)1894
guest-posts, closures, variables, examples, interviewing
Ten Years Ago Today I Coined the Shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript Required; Didn’t Read” (tan)1893
support, terminology
JavaScript Best Practice: Use “return await”1892
asynchronicity, best-practices
The Professional Standing of Frontend Developers (mar)1891
guest-posts, career, learning, html, css, communication, collaboration, community, ai
7 Best Practices of File Upload With JavaScript and React1890
file-handling, react, best-practices
JavaScript (htt)1889
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, performance, bundling, transpiling, web-workers, libraries, web-components
Image Comparison Slider in 6 Lines of JavaScript1888
sliders, images
JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back (all)1887
react, frameworks, libraries, tooling
How to Reduce Web Application Bundle Size? (ant)1886
how-tos, web-apps, bundling, tooling
What Is TypeScript? An Overview for JavaScript Programmers (rau)1885
overviews, typescript, comparisons
Justified Text, JS “moveBefore” Method, Performance Optimization (zor/css)1884
videos, css, typography, performance, optimization
Turbocharging V8 With Mutable Heap Numbers1883
v8, javascript-engines, performance, randomness
Subverting Control With Weak References (jlo)1882
programming
Solved by Style Observer: “Element.matchContainer()” (bra)1881
css
Speeding Up the JavaScript Ecosystem—Rust and JavaScript Plugins (mar)1880
performance, rust, plugins
Clean Code in JavaScript: A Comprehensive Guide1879
guides, principles, conventions, variables, objects, functions, comments, testing, quality
Introduction to Frontend Development1878
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)1877
standards, ecmascript, regex, escaping, arrays, math
20 Years of AJAX: The Technology That Revolutionized Web Development1876
ajax, history, data-fetching
How to Move the First Element to the End in JavaScript1875
how-tos
Create Contextual Console Loggers (pat/dev)1874
console, debugging, dev-tools, browsers, edge, chrome
Style Observer: JS to Observe CSS Property Changes, for Reals (lea)1873
tooling, libraries, css
Testing 10 JavaScript Frameworks on Their HTML Defaults (j9t)1872
frameworks, html, conformance, comparisons, link-lists
Think JavaScript Is Slow? Here’s How JIT (Just in Time) Compilation Makes It 100× Faster Instantly1871
compiling, performance
The First Ever Website That Literally Glows in the Dark1870
videos, effects, apis, css
View Transitions Applied: More Performant “::view-transition-group(*)” Animations (bra)1869
css, view-transitions, performance
Move on to ESM-Only (ant)1868
esm, modules, nodejs, support, typescript
Using “at()” Method in JavaScript to Get the Last Item From an Array (ama)1867
arrays
Oracle Justified Its JavaScript Trademark With Node.js—Now It Wants That Ignored (tin/den)1866
oracle, nodejs, deno, legal
Fast and Smooth Third-Party Web Fonts (sco)1865
fonts, embed-code, performance, css
Introducing the JSR Open Governance Board (tin+/den)1864
introductions, jsr, typescript, community
There Are a Lot of Ways to Break Up Long Tasks in JavaScript (mac)1863
web-workers, performance
Vite With TypeScript (rwi)1862
vite, migrating, typescript, configuration
Is npm Enough? Why Startups Are Coming After This JavaScript Package Registry (kat/red)1861
npm, jsr, bun, pnpm, yarn
How to Set WebGL Shader Colors With CSS and JavaScript (nma)1860
how-tos, webgl, css
Page Bloat Update: How Does Ever-Increasing Page Size Affect Your Business and Your Users? (tam/spe)1859
performance, trends, metrics, images, desktop, mobile
What Text Area Popovers Taught Me About Browser APIs (bla)1858
html, forms, apis
How Long Is a Second in JavaScript? (iag)1857
The Modern Way to Write JavaScript Servers (mar)1856
nodejs, servers
You’re Overthinking Web Components (all)1855
web-components
JavaScript Temporal Is Coming (bsm/mdn)1854
apis, time
Exploring AI, Web Development, and Accessibility in Tech With Stefan Judis (ste+/wea)1853
videos, interviewing, ai, runtimes, accessibility, screen-readers, craft
My Website Has Been Gaslighting You (dav)1852
css, colors, effects
Simplify Lazy Loading With Intersection Observer’s “scrollMargin” (fro)1851
scrolling, apis, lazy-loading, performance
Generating Test Values Using JavaScript Generators1850
typescript, functions, testing
Google Begins Requiring JavaScript for Google Search (kyl)1849
google
SolidJS Creator on Confronting Web Framework Complexity1848
frameworks, angular, vuejs, multi-page-apps, single-page-apps, complexity, outlooks
JavaScript’s “Promise.race” and “Promise.all” Are Not “Fair” (chr)1847
promises
Making “this” Less Annoying (dav)1846
formatting, configuration
Using SVGs on Canvas With Compose Multiplatform (eev)1845
canvas, svg, images
What Is a Callback Function? (cfe)1844
callbacks, functions
JavaScript Hashing Speed Comparison: MD5 Versus SHA-256 (lem)1843
hashing, performance, comparisons, bun, nodejs
All JavaScript Keyboard Shortcut Libraries Are Broken1842
libraries, keyboard-shortcuts
Oracle Refuses to Yield JavaScript Trademark, Deno Land Says (inf)1841
oracle, deno, legal
Sharing a Variable Across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (chr/fro)1840
variables, html, css
Exploring Modern JavaScript Compilers: Why Oxc Matters for the Developer Community (hac)1839
oxc, compiling, tooling
5 Technical JavaScript Trends You Need to Know About in 20251838
trends, architecture, serverless, webassembly, state-management, typescript, type-safety, micro-frontends
2024 JavaScript Rising Stars1837
frameworks, libraries, react, vuejs, tooling, mobile, desktop, state-management, ai, css-in-js, testing, graphql, retrospectives
Progressive Enhancement Brings Everyone In (jay)1836
progressive-enhancement, history, advocacy, link-lists
Reckoning: Frontend’s Lost Decade (sli/per)1835
videos, performance, web-platform
Top PHP Alternative for Web Development?1834
php, java, python, ruby, go, rust
JavaScript Frameworks—Heading Into 2025 (rya/thi)1833
frameworks, performance, complexity, maintainability
Relatively New Things You Should Know About HTML Heading Into 2025 (chr/fro)1832
html, forms, toggles, pop-overs, import-maps, css, transitions
The Difference Between HTML Attributes and Properties (pau/clo)1831
html, attributes, terminology
What’s Actually Happening With JS Frameworks1830
videos, frameworks, trends
Refactoring a Web Performance Snippet for Security and Best Practice (the)1829
performance, metrics, refactoring
View Transitions Snippets: Getting All Animations Linked to a View Transition (bra)1828
css, view-transitions, apis
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Vector Database1827
introductions, databases, vector-databases, ai, openai
Breaking Up With Long Tasks or: How I Learned to Group Loops and Wield the Yield (rvi/per)1826
performance, loops
Shallow Clones Versus Structured Clones (phi)1825
After Rome Failure, VoidZero Is the Newest Attempt to Create Unified JavaScript Toolchain (inf)1824
voidzero, tooling
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess1823
performance
Broadcast Channel API (5t3)1822
apis
Important Topics for Frontend Developers to Master in 20251821
learning, typescript, css, frameworks, git, apis, testing, performance, security, ci-cd, websockets
“AsyncLocalStorage”: Simplify Context Management in Node.js (tre)1820
nodejs, asynchronicity
JS Import Maps (5t3)1819
dependencies, import-maps
How to Create Multi-Step Forms With Vanilla JavaScript and CSS (css)1818
how-tos, forms, css
WebAssembly JavaScript Interface (w3c)1817
standards, webassembly, apis
State of JavaScript 2024 [Results] (sac/dev)1816
surveys, metrics
11 Essential JavaScript Hooking Techniques for Reverse Engineering in 2024 (xiu)1815
debugging, techniques
Your JavaScript Bundle Is Too Fat1814
bundling, performance, dependencies, code-splitting, lazy-loading, tree-shaking, minification, optimization
5 Technical Trends to Help Web Developers Stand Out in 20251813
trends, career, security, ai, low-and-no-code
Native HTML Light and Dark Color Scheme Switching (pep/mat)1812
dark-mode, html, css, functionality
Understanding the Main Thread in the Browser (per)1811
browsers, dom
Publishing a Simple Client-Side JavaScript Package to npm With GitHub Actions (sim)1810
dependencies, npm, github-actions
Just Say “No” to JavaScript (nic/inf)1809
typescript, programming
Creating an Effective Multistep Form for Better User Experience (sma)1808
forms, html, user-experience
Let’s Learn Generators in JavaScript1807
functions
Observation: CSS Math Eval (kiz)1806
css, math
The 5 Most Transformative JavaScript Features From ES15 (tar)1805
ecmascript
Contributing to JavaScript and TypeScript (rob)1804
videos, typescript, foss, standards
Building Better CLI Apps (mol)1803
videos, typescript, command-line, tooling
Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark (tin/den)1802
deno, oracle, legal
JavaScript Events Made Easy: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners1801
guides, events
Mastering JavaScript Event Delegation1800
events
Exploring Alternative Interactions in JavaScript (dev)1799
videos, ai, interaction-design
Mastering Accessible Modals With ARIA and Keyboard Navigation (a11)1798
accessibility, keyboard-navigation, aria, modals
State of JavaScript 2024 (sac/dev)1797
surveys
Importing a Frontend JavaScript Library Without a Build System (b0r)1796
libraries, commonjs, esm, nodejs, html
The Art of Clean Code: A Practical Guide to Writing Maintainable JavaScript1795
guides, principles, maintainability
Exploring JavaScript Symbols (tre)1794
Self-Contained Executable Programs With Deno Compile (tin/den)1793
deno, typescript, compiling
Understanding Bitwise Shifts in JavaScript: “<<” and “>>” (tre)1792
operators
JavaScript Import Attributes (ES2025) (tre)1791
security
Why Does JavaScript’s “parseInt(0.0000005)” Print “5”?1790
How a BBC Navigation Bar Component Broke Depending on Which External Monitor It Was On (jos)1789
debugging, case-studies
The Path to Learn Web Development (fla)1788
learning, http, html, css, tooling, git, typescript, databases, frameworks
Mapping Over Promises in JavaScript (pmb)1787
promises
Should Web Designers Learn JavaScript or CSS? (ope)1786
design, career, css
Celebrating Innovation and Impact: JavaScriptLandia Community Awards (ope)1785
community
Maybe It Isn’t JavaScript (gee)1784
videos, seo, google
How Bun Supports V8 APIs Without Using V8 II (bun)1783
bun, v8, apis
How Do HTML Event Handlers Work? (tbr)1782
html, events
How to Test JavaScript for Accessibility Compliance (flo/a11)1781
how-tos, accessibility, compliance, wcag, testing
JavaScript’s “&&=” Operator: Understanding Logical “AND” Assignment (tre)1780
operators
JavaScript’s “??=” Operator: Default Values Made Simple (tre)1779
operators
Introducing the vlt Package Manager and Serverless Registry (dar+/vlt)1778
introductions, dependencies, serverless, tooling
JavaScript Do’s and Don’ts (mua)1777
accessibility
How to Roll Your Own Auth in JavaScript and TypeScript (rwi)1776
how-tos, authentication, typescript
What Is the JavaScript Pipeline Operator “|>” (tre)1775
operators
Octoverse: AI Leads Python to Top Language as the Number of Global Developers Surges1774
research, github, community, ai, programming, python, typescript, java, php, shells, go
JavaScript Best Practices (jet)1773
best-practices
20 JavaScript Tricks Every Developer Must Know1772
tips-and-tricks
JavaScript Truthy and Falsy: A Deep Dive (tre)1771
deep-dives
How We Shrunk Our JavaScript Monorepo Git Size by 94%1770
monorepos, git
Front End Debugging: Not Just Console Log (deb)1769
debugging, console, dom
Passing Data to New Window Using JavaScript1768
comparisons
Should JavaScript Be Split Into Two Languages? New Google-Driven Proposal Divides Opinion1767
ecmascript, google, runtimes
Set the Default Time Zone in Node.js (ste)1766
nodejs, internationalization, localization, time
Why I’m Skeptical of Rewriting JavaScript Tools in “Faster” Languages (nol)1765
tooling, programming
Platform Strategy and Its Discontents (sli)1764
web-platform, mobile, mobile-first, native, performance, user-experience
How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP and PostgreSQL in JavaScript1763
how-tos, images, search, ai, openai, postgresql, databases, functionality
How to Convert CommonJS to ESM (den)1762
how-tos, conversion, commonjs, esm
Does Deno 2 Really Uncomplicate JavaScript? (fir)1761
videos, deno, jsr, comparisons
The Greatness and Limitations of the “js-framework-benchmark” (nol)1760
frameworks, tooling, performance, metrics
I Didn’t Know You Could Use Sibling Parameters as Default Values in Functions (mac)1759
functions
The Secrets of JavaScript Object Property Order1758
objects
Handling Paste Events in JavaScript (ray/fro)1757
events
JS Frameworks, in Their Own Words (by Word Cloud) (j9t)1756
frameworks, react, vuejs, angular, svelte, express, meteor, nextjs, comparisons
Dive Into WebGPU (oka)1755
introductions, webgpu
The Popover API: Your New Best Friend for Tooltips (dev)1754
pop-overs, apis, tooltips, html, css
Floating in Space—Animations With Compose and Canvas (eev)1753
canvas, animations
10 JavaScript Concepts Every Node Developer Must Master1752
nodejs, concepts