JavaScript

Chrome 146 introduced a scoped custom element registry, allowing different versions of custom elements to share the same tag name without using the global namespace.

Jenna Smith with some pretty solid UX advice as it relates to loading states: Rather than designing another loading state, I improve the preload strategy until the issue disappears entirely. She points to Route Transitions and preloading data as solutions that get closer to pages that load everything at once, like a default website, while […]

In which Adam highlights the integration process and notes some challenges compared to the TanStack setup we covered shortly ago.

Nub looks like an interesting new “toolchain” for Node.js. It’s one of those “it makes everything you already do faster” sort of things, like installing and running scripts. Bytes.dev… … won’t be surprised if it becomes the de facto way to season your Node.js app. You can get some of these advantages by switching runtimes, […]

Mat Marquis details the good-and-dangerous of a new method which we can just make a screenreader say something. There’s a brand new ariaNotify() method — defined by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.3 Specification — that provides you with a means of programmatically triggering narration in a screen reader. It accepts a string as its first argument, and […]

Adam knows better than anyone, CSS knows about the user, device, variables, layout and more. But there is a little bit of information that CSS doesn’t have. Like what’s the current value of a range input exactly? What are the exact coordinates of the mouse? It’s not hard to pass over that information to CSS […]

View Transitions are of unique help in applying an animation to an element even when you are literally removing it from the DOM.

If you’ve ever built your own client-side navigation that properly respects updating URLs, you’ve probably used history.pushState() a bunch, and it’s a bunch of work getting it robust and right. I think Jay Rungta does a good job of showcasing the newly-baseline Navigation API and why it’s better. Sorry for the huge blockquote, but it’s […]

Nice 9-minute video from Matt Pocock (from about a year ago) introducing composites. The problem of not being able to compare objects definitely feels worth solving. Or, more accurately, fixing the issue where when compare two objects that look exactly the same, it’s still false. And that using them as keys doesn’t work. Sounds like […]

I just blogged about a niche idea for View Transitions. Here are a couple more posts that specifically use the same-page style View Transitions and have a bit more practical demos: