I cannot sing the praises of fetch loudly enough. As a #JavaScript #WebDev, having ready access to this native web API where you can pull down #HTML fragments or #JSON data with a line or two of code is simply brilliant.
But when shipping robust production code, how do you handle unpredictable network scenarios gracefully and provide a good user experience?
One solution: a tiny 2.3KB wrapper around “fetch” called “ffetch”. Here are some of its features:
Announcing Reciprocate, a Sweet Solution for Making Your HTML Web Components Reactive
Have you ever been chipping away on vanilla #WebComponents when you began to wonder “hey waitaminute…how do I make it so when I set this #JavaScript property, the equivalent #HTML attribute is updated? And if I set this attribute, the equivalent property is updated? Or when either is updated, my component will re-render?! Where are the APIs for this stuff??”
Worry no longer! 🤓 #WebDev
Hey y'all, a new #fediverse social web forum is in da house!! 🎉
Talk learning #WebDev from base principles and help fellow newbies experience the joys of vanilla #HTML #CSS #JavaScript and #WebComponents! (with a sprinkle of lightweight tools to smooth out the bumps in the road ☺️)
Check it out:
Signals, a reactive primitive popularized by many #JavaScript frameworks and libraries, makes it much easier to add declarative binding to your #HTML using basic vanilla DOM techniques + signal effects.
I haven’t had a concrete example to show off just how simple yet powerful this can be…until now! 😎
Here's the ubiquitous counter demo, todo list with a completion count, and typewriter printing out a message—all with a binding solution in only 20 lines of code! #WebDev
And now, the post you've all been waiting for…
(probably not, but you get it anyway!) 😂
The #CSS Framework Wars™ have come to an end. And we can thank…#Tailwind v4 for that! 🤯
Freely compose UI using native CSS variables & syntax, Tailwind design tokens in CSS (configured with CSS!), and Tailwind utility classes only where it makes sense. Hallelujah! 🙌
As historically one of Tailwind's biggest critics it is *weird* to sing its praises. 2025's biggest #WebDev surprise?
The Invoker Commands API is the new hotness for a declarative #HTML solution to the problem “click and see something happen!!”
However…
If we’re inside shadow DOM and the button being clicked is supposed to do a thing via its host component, then uh, nope. 🤨
Thankfully there’s always a workaround in the Wide World of the Web, so I’ve written it up and here it is!
😁 Yay for building directly on top of platform mechanics. 👏 #JavaScript #WebComponents #WebDev
Ever since #CSS backdrop-filter became a thing, combined with careful usage of gradients and shadowing it’s allowed #WebDev designers to make objects appear glassy to varying degrees.
No doubt we’ll now see more attention paid to bringing elements of “glassmorphism” to web-based design systems. While I don’t recommend trying to recreate Apple’s Liquid Glass effects verbatim, we can use it as a point of inspiration for designing our own uniquely delightful interfaces:
