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• The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

  Published:Mar 27, 2025 |  at 09:05 AM

  (Adam Argyle)

  Chrome 135 introduces appearance: base-select, enabling fully customizable & styleable <select> elements with rich HTML support. Learn how to design accessible, standardized dropdowns without breaking old browsers.

  •   css

• Is Vite faster than Turbopack?

  Published:Mar 27, 2025 |  at 09:00 AM

  (Kyle Gill)

  Is Vite faster than Turbopack? Real-world benchmarks compare cold starts, page compilations, hard refreshes, and Fast Refresh in Next.js (Webpack/Turbopack) vs. Vite (Rollup/Rolldown).

  •   tooling
  •   vite
  •   turbopack
  •   benchmark
  •   webpack

• Authorization in Next.js

  Published:Mar 27, 2025 |  at 08:53 AM

  (Robin Wieruch)

  Learn about authorization in Next.js when using React Server Components, Server Actions, and Next's App Router ...

  •   next
  •   authentification
  •   authorization

• The Great ESLint v9 Migration Adventure: A Developer's Survival Guide

  Published:Mar 25, 2025 |  at 01:54 PM

  (Yacine Kharoubi)

  Learn how to migrate a TypeScript project to ESLint v9 with this detailed guide. Discover key changes, common challenges, and step-by-step solutions for adopting the new flat config system.

  •   eslint
  •   tooling

• Real-world uses of TypeScript’s utility types

  Published:Mar 25, 2025 |  at 01:42 PM

  (Sam Rose)

  Sam Rose walks us through some real-world usage of TypeScript’s utility types in their day job’s open source codebase to help those new to the language get to grips with this key capability.

  •   ts

• JavaScript Visualized: Event Loop, Web APIs, (Micro)task Queue

  Published:Mar 21, 2025 |  at 02:53 PM

  (Nadia Makarevich)

  Learn how the browser event loop, task queue, microtask queue, and Web APIs work together to enable non-blocking, asynchronous JavaScript.

  •   js
  •   basics

• SSR Deep Dive for React Developers

  Published:Mar 21, 2025 |  at 02:40 PM

  (Nadia Makarevich)

  Explore step-by-step how Server-Side Rendering (SSR), pre-rendering, hydration, and Static Site Generation (SSG) work in React, their costs, performance impact, benefits, and trade-offs.

  •   react
  •   ssr

• Web Components Demystified

  Published:Mar 17, 2025 |  at 02:47 PM

  (Geoff Graham)

  Scott Jehl released a course called Web Components Demystified. This is my full set of notes from Scott's course.

  •   html
  •   webcomponents
  •   js

• What is an LLM (For Web Developers)

  Published:Mar 17, 2025 |  at 02:39 PM

  (Vishwas Gopinath)

  Learn what Large Language Models (LLMs) actually are, how they work, and practical ways to add them to your web projects—no PhD required

  •   ai

• Beyond React.memo: Smarter Ways to Optimize Performance

  Published:Mar 13, 2025 |  at 08:46 AM

  (Christian Ekrem)

  Why composition patterns might be better than memoization for React performance

  •   react
  •   webperf
  •   best-practice