For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps…
TikTok has a reputation for its aggressive data collection. The platform has implemented various methods to make it difficult for reverse-engineers to understand exactly what data is being collected and how it is being used.
One of the world’s most popular ad blocking filter lists, EasyList, has run into a serious issue that threatens to tank it, as well as many open-source projects that rely on it. See if this affects you personally, and how you can help.
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What features would be in that spec? Partial page updates? Animated transitions? Layered interactions?
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Introducing Turbopack, the Rust-based successor to Webpack. A high-performance bundler for React Server Components and TypeScript codebases.
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The Art of Game Feel (a.k.a Juice) in Product Design
Microsoft has bundled a VPN with its Edge browser, and we expect others to follow suit. But can a built-in VPN replace a full-fledged VPN service, and is it a good example to follow? We give our take.
I picked Ruby on Rails over React-based SPA to build Reviewbunny and it was wonderful. I didn't procrastinate determining the perfect setup …
The HTML capture attribute is interesting because it allows you to activate a user's camera with just HTML. This article covers it in more depth.
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year
Scott Rosenberg , in a piece with the title “Sunset of the social network” , writes at Axios:
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
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TomTom is redefining not just how maps are made, but the entire ecosystem around them too. It'll lay the foundation for a future of innovative location tech.
In 1999 — back when Snake 🐍 was the best thing about your phone 📱 — there were three phone carriers in Japan 🗾 . On these phones were tiny, beautiful pictures called emoji (meaning “picture” and “character” in Japanese 🥰 ). These 176 images were very simple — think 8-bit tech — and as a result were exquisitely…
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Because titles are typically the first things users see in Google results, titles can have a large impact on click-through rates and the number of vis
WebAssembly , a.k.a. WASM, is a standard defining a low-level programming language suitable (A) as a target for cross-compilation from many other languages and (B) for running via a virtual machine in a browser. Designed with scriptability via JavaScript in mind, it provides a way to compile C code (among others) to…
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New versions of Brave will hide—and, where possible, completely block—cookie consent notifications. Brave's approach is distinct and more privacy-preserving than similar systems used in other browsers.
WebSockets are the most used technology for real-time web apps. However, Server Sent Events (SSE) are a simpler alternative that is often superior.
