Posts tagged #web-apis — Page 4

The Speculation Rules API lets you tell the browser which pages to prefetch or fully prerender in the background — delivering near-instant navigations with a few lines of JSON and no framework required.

CSS scroll-driven animations let you create silky-smooth scroll effects — progress bars, reveal animations, parallax — using pure CSS with zero JavaScript.

The old window.ethereum trick breaks when users have multiple wallets installed. Here's how EIP-6963 and wagmi v2 solve multi-wallet discovery cleanly, with real TypeScript examples.

A deep dive into the CSS Anchor Positioning API — how anchor-name, position-anchor, position-area, and position-try-fallbacks let you build tooltips and floating elements entirely in CSS, no JavaScript or Floating UI required.

A guide to the CSS customizable select — how appearance: base-select unlocks full styling of native dropdowns including custom icons, rich option content, and picker pseudo-elements, without sacrificing accessibility or dropping in a JS library.

A practical introduction to the JavaScript Temporal API — the ES2026 replacement for Date that gets types right, handles timezones properly, and makes date arithmetic readable without moment.js or date-fns.

Edge functions run your code in data centers close to users, eliminating the latency of a centralized origin server. Here's what they're good for and how to build with them.

PWAs have matured significantly. Between Workbox's caching strategies, the Background Sync API, and the Web App Manifest improvements, building offline-capable apps is more practical than ever.

JavaScript is single-threaded, but that doesn't mean your UI has to freeze during heavy computation. Web Workers give you real parallel execution — here's how to use them well.