The web can seem fast moving. New frameworks, tools, and even languages come and go. Yet many developers feel that they have to move as fast as their slowest user. New browsers are ‘evergreen’ — they auto-update unseen in the background without asking for permission, and they’re making leaps and bounds in t...
The Backstory In 2013, I was creating the frontend of a responsive web app that had a lot of data to display. I had done a lot of responsive design using @media queries, but as I found myself trying to re-use components from one layout in another layout, I wished I could make my responsive breakpoints correspond to th...
The following is a guest post by Pascal Klau, a trainee from South Germany, who dislikes unnecessary HTTP requests and broccoli. Pascal is going to explain way to use a polyfilling service in such a way that you might get away with not using it at all.The Situation We want to write JavaScript in the ES6 syntax. But s...
We had this question on ShopTalk just the other day. We’re so (rightfully) worried about web performance, it feels like we shouldn’t be loading polyfills all the time, only when we detect they are needed. Philip Walton:… too many people building websites today take a “lowest-common-denominator” ...
Web components are becoming the future trend of Web application development. They allow us to group HTML markup, scripts, and styles into a reusable component. These components are part of the browser and hence don’t need external JavaScript libraries like jQuery to provide its functionality. As reported by Wikip...
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