JavaScript news — Web Standards

September 4
Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!
Canvas, contenteditable, and textarea compared for building an editor in the browser.
August 31
Highlighting a range of text inside a form field
The Custom Highlight API finally reaches form controls thanks to OpaqueRange in Chromium 152.
August 12
How Baseline can help you ship less JavaScript
Five dependency clusters where platform features now replace npm packages.
August 11
Source maps or not?
When npm packages actually need them, and how much install size they cost.
July 17
Do we still need build tools?
A look at which CSS and JS tooling still earns its place in 2026.
July 16
Announcing TypeScript 7.0
A native Go port delivering 8-12x faster builds and lower memory use.
July 15
Shaders, a design platform for WebGPU effects
Build GPU visuals across frameworks without writing any shader code.
July 10
What’s new in ECMAScript 2026
A tour of the new array, error, math, and iterator methods landing in the spec.
June 22
Releasing Babel 8 today: ESM-only, drop ES5 default, and a smooth migration path
ESM-only, Node.js 22+, modern browser target, and assumptions over loose and spec.
June 15
CSS reacts, JS just listens
A tiny library that exposes runtime state to CSS through custom properties.
June 11
The quiet problem with unnecessary async
Marking sync code as async changes its contract and propagates Promises through callers.
May 28
CSS vs. JavaScript: exploring the performance implications of different animation strategies
How CSS, Web Animations API, GSAP, and Motion behave under main-thread congestion.