If you’ve followed me long enough, you already know how much against __proto__ I have always been and yet, since it made it to ECMAScript standard a long while ago, there are still rare occasions I find at least its usage to brand an object acceptable: const factory = (fields…

This post is a follow up for the JSX is inefficient by default … but … one, describing a journey behind AST manipulation, brainstorming use cases and possible caveats, and finally releasing an experimental library that already compete with all others despite its infancy. … in an ideal world … I’ve already explained why JSX is…

Follow up Please don’t miss JSX can be more efficient by default post, which explain my journey to achieve awesome performance out of JSX! Update I’ve written a transformer that fulfill my needs/requirements, yet I am trying to find out how to make these requirements actually profitable in terms of performance. I always…

When all my tweets ditched hooks in favor of signals, my curiosity couldn’t stop me from making a tiny (enough) library around this pattern. What are signals? Somehow a simplification of, or a second take at, React hooks. The best documentation around signals, beside being the source also pioneer (update: actually S came…

Another day, another post about not missing hyped libraries when it comes to Web development, which is something I’ve been advocating and agreeing, but also used in practice, for nearly 20 years now. Unfortunately, this is also something I’ve heard enough when it comes to details in every single post…

It should surprises nobody that knows me what I think about CEs builtin extends: these are the best primitive ever as well as, imho, the most underrated one out there! People complaining about Custom Elements builtin extends usually have these arguments: “as Safari team stated they don’t like it, nobody…

It’s not the first time I talk about electron alternatives, but it’s only recently that we have a FinalizationRegistry in JS, which combined to a Proxy, can produce memory-leak safe remotely driven results, either on the client, or, recently, on the server side too. Before talking more about my latest…

Are you happy about TS? Good, really good! We’re all happy about you being happy too … now, can you let it go too? Thank you! Enough is enough! I understand these days most job offers put all possible buzzwords in the required skills, and TS happens to always be there, but I…

In 20+ years of programming, I’ve never needed to invert a binary tree except for that one time a silly interviewer asked me to do that for a web-related role. I have, however, encountered bitwise operations in hundreds of real-world situations. Incredibly enough, after the initial learning curve, I’ve never…