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Plain Vanilla Blog
Latest posts
Redesigning Plain Vanilla
Stepping out of my comfort zone.
Local-first web application architecture
Maybe we just need to dig a little deeper (into the client).
The history of web application architecture
The many different ways of building for the web, and their many frustrations.
Clean client-side routing
Finding a nice way of doing single-page app routing without a library.
Bringing React's <ViewTransition> to vanilla JS
Bringing React's declarative view transitions API to vanilla as a custom element.
Making a new form control
Building a form control as a custom element.
The attribute/property duality
How to work with attributes and properties in custom elements.
New year's resolve
import.meta.resolve and other ways to avoid bundling
Caching vanilla sites
Strategies for cache invalidation on vanilla web sites.
Editing Plain Vanilla
How to set up VS Code for a vanilla web project.
Needs more context
A better way to do context for web components.
Lived experience
Thoughts on the past and future of frameworks, web components and web development.
The unreasonable effectiveness of vanilla JS
A case study in porting intricate React code to vanilla.
The life and times of a web component
The entire lifecycle of a web component, from original creation to when a shadow crosses.
Sweet Suspense
React-style lazy loading of web components.
How fast are web components?
Benchmarking the relative performance of different web component techniques.
A unix philosophy for web development
Maybe all web components need to be a light-weight framework is the right set of helper functions.
Poor man's signals
Signals are all the rage over in frameworkland, so let's bring them to vanilla JS.
Vanilla entity encoding
The first version of this site didn't use entity encoding in the examples. Now it does.