Date is out, Temporal is in
A quick tour of Temporal, the saner successor to JavaScript’s Date.
JavaScript news
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A production-ready web component starter template
Skip boilerplate with scaffolded tests, CI, and secure npm publishing.
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Initiating navigations with the Navigation API
Tips for triggering, intercepting, and timing navigations with navigation.
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Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?
Dependency management on the web needs an intervention, not more bundler glue.
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ES2026 solves JavaScript headaches with dates, math and modules
Smarter tools and faster performance for JavaScript coming in ES2026.
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JSDoc as the ideal typing tool for JavaScript
JSDoc as the ideal typing tool for JavaScript and a simpler alternative to TypeScript.
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Build your own SPA router with URLPattern
Learn to wire URLPattern, web components, and History API into a tiny vanilla JS SPA router.
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Performance monitoring for web components
Using the User Timing API to track real-world component performance
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Testing HTML Light DOM web components is easier than expected
How Light DOM, Lit, and Testing Library made a legacy app’s web components testable.
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The inner workings of JavaScript source maps
A deep dive into how source maps link minified JavaScript back to original code.
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Nineteen talks from the CascadiaJS 2025 conference
Playlist offers 19 sessions on AI, JS origins, frameworks, CSS, monetization and more.
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<color‑input>, a modern color picker web componentAdvanced color picker supports wide-gamut and multiple color spaces.
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Searchable, collapsible sections with
hidden="until-found"Enhancing collapsible sections with progressive discovery and better find-in-page support.
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Directives and the platform boundary
Tanner Linsley warns that framework directives blur the line between JS and the platform.
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Evaluating frameworks performance
Comparing 10 meta-frameworks: Marko, SolidStart, SvelteKit, Qwik lead. React has limits.
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Importing vs fetching JSON
When to use JSON module imports vs fetch(): caching, responses, errors, and use cases.
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React Compiler v1.0
Stable compiler auto-optimizes components, improves speeds up to 12%, used in Meta apps.
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Announcing Vite+: a unified toolchain for JavaScript
Rust-based unified toolchain with build, test, lint, format, and visual tools for JS projects.
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Dead framework theory
How LLMs trained on React could make it the platform by default, drowning new frameworks.
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Abandonware of the web: do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
Built-in DOM methods like insertRow and insertCell make building and querying tables easier.
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Introducing the React Foundation
New nonprofit under Linux Foundation to oversee React, React Native, and JSX long-term.
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State of JavaScript 2025
Annual JavaScript survey now open until November 1, takes 15–20 minutes to complete.
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Complete Svelte 5 course
Three-hour Joy of Code course on Svelte 5: basics, reactivity, state, and animations.
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Tending your dependency garden
Treating dependencies as part of your product: updating, removing, and monitoring security.