Lightweight Form Validation with Alpine.js and Iodine.js
January 20th, 2021
Many users these days expect instant feedback in form validation. How do you achieve this level of interactivity when you’re building a small static site or a server-rendered Rails or Laravel app? Alpine.js and Iodine.js are two minimal JavaScript libraries we can use to create highly interactive forms with little technical debt and a negligible…
Life with ESM
January 19th, 2021
ESM, meaning ES Modules, meaning JavaScript Modules. Like, import and friends. Browsers support it these days. There is plenty of nuances, but as long as you’ve dropped IE, the door is fairly open. Before ESM, the situation for JavaScript projects was: We’ve got packages we need to use from npm. We’ll install them from npm…
State of JavaScript 2020
January 18th, 2021
We rounded up a bunch of published 2020 annual reports right before the year ended and compiled them into a big ol’ list. The end of the list called out a couple of in-progress surveys, one of which was the 2020 State of JavaScript. Well, the results are in and available to check out! Just…
Building an Ethereum app using Redwood.js and Fauna
January 14th, 2021
With the recent climb of Bitcoin’s price over 20k $USD, and to it recently breaking 30k, I thought it’s worth taking a deep dive back into creating Ethereum applications. Ethereum, as you should know by now, is a public (meaning, open-to-everyone-without-restrictions) blockchain that functions as a distributed consensus and data processing network, with the data…
Angular Thoughts on Docs: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
January 11th, 2021
Photo Credit: https://libreshot.com/red-background-book/ The start of a new year is a good opportunity to look back on some of the work we’ve done with the Angular documentation. I find these reflection opportunities helpful; they allow me to really examine what we’ve accomplished, what we weren’t able to achieve, and what we should focus on next….
Svelte and Spring Animations
January 8th, 2021
Spring animations are a wonderful way to make UI interactions come to life. Rather than merely changing a property at a constant rate over a period of time, springs allow us to move things using spring physics, which gives the impression of a real thing moving and can appear more natural to users. I’ve written…
Win a Copy of Zell Liew’s Learn JavaScript Course
January 7th, 2021
Zell Liew is giving away 10 free copies of his Learn JavaScript course, and entering the giveaway is pretty easy: sign up for his newsletter. I’ve personally subscribed for some time now and all I get is an occasional hand-written email with useful JavaScript gems. It’s sort of like winning no matter if you get…
Introducing Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components
December 20th, 2020
2020 has been a long year. As it comes to an end we wanted to share a special Holiday Update on our research into zero-bundle-size React Server Components. To introduce React Server Components, we have prepared a talk and a demo. If you want, you can check them out during the holidays, or later when…
Change vs. Inertia
December 18th, 2020
Recently, I’ve become more deeply aware of the inherent tension between change and inertia, as it applies to the evolution and use of web technologies. These forces have always been present and opposed to each other, but it seems to me that the side effects of these collisions are impacting web development more noticeably. On one hand, we’ve…
What’s Old is New
December 17th, 2020
This year, I learned a lot about how “old” tricks can solve a lot of modern problems if you use the right tools. Following the growth of Jamstack-style development has been both a learning experience, while also a nostalgic one. It’s been amazing to see how you can power plain ol’ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript…