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Posts tagged #frontend
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
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developmentAug 20, 2026· 4 min
Declarative Partial Updates: Out-of-Order HTML Streaming Without a Framework
Chrome 148 ships experimental support for filling HTML placeholders out of order and streaming markup into the DOM. Here's how the new template-for and streamHTML APIs work, and what they replace.
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developmentAug 10, 2026· 4 min
Trusted Types Is Baseline: DOM XSS Is Now a Type Error
Firefox 148 shipped Trusted Types in February 2026, making it Baseline. Here's how to turn every dangerous innerHTML assignment in your app into a TypeError you can actually catch.
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developmentJul 26, 2026· 4 min
Animate to height: auto in CSS with interpolate-size and calc-size()
Transitioning an element to height: auto used to mean JavaScript measurements or fragile max-height hacks. interpolate-size and calc-size() finally make it a one-line CSS opt-in.
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developmentJun 18, 2026· 5 min
WCAG 2.2: What Frontend Developers Actually Need to Fix
WCAG 2.2 became the enforcement standard in 2026. Here are the nine new success criteria that matter most for frontend developers — and what to actually do about them.
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developmentMay 22, 2026· 4 min
CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: No JavaScript Required
CSS scroll-driven animations let you create silky-smooth scroll effects — progress bars, reveal animations, parallax — using pure CSS with zero JavaScript.
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developmentMay 9, 2026· 4 min
Svelte 5 Runes: Reactive State That Actually Makes Sense
An introduction to Svelte 5 runes — the explicit reactive primitives ($state, $derived, $effect, $props) that replace Svelte 4's magic $: syntax and make reactivity predictable, composable, and no longer limited to .svelte files.
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developmentMay 7, 2023· 3 min
How to Optimize Website Performance in Front-End Development
Practical tips for front-end performance optimization — from writing clean and efficient code to image and asset optimization, lazy loading, and reducing unnecessary server requests.
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developmentMay 7, 2023· 2 min
The Evolution of Front-End Development: Past, Present, and Future
A look at how front-end development has evolved from table layouts and inline styles to responsive design, component frameworks, and the modern web — with a peek at where it might be heading next.
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