Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

Because this essay is over 11 000 words long(!) I’ve made a convenience EPUB file for offline reading. (EPUB only! No PDF this time.) You can download it over on the fulfilment service I use, Lemon Squeezy, with the option to pay what you want if you feel the urge to support my writing.

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Build A Static RSS Reader To Fight Your Inner FOMO

RSS is a classic technology that fetches content from websites and feeds it to anyone who subscribes to it with a URL. It’s based on XML, and we can use it to consume the feeds in our own apps. Karin Hendrikse demonstrates how to do exactly that with a static site you can use as your personal RSS reader.

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Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in “faster” languages

I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript that I’m reluctant to give up on.

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Are Playwright and Vitest ready to replace Jest?

I work on these projects—mostly enterprise software, with a fair share of technical debt. I have been using the tools available at the time and following the best practices highlighted in the Guiding Principles of Testing Library. And I have mostly enjoyed testing so far.

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React Folder Structure in 5 Steps

How to structure large React applications into folders and files is a highly opinionated topic. I struggled for a while writing about this topic, because there is no right way to do it.

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How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components

When Microsoft’s Edge browser team released WebUI 2.0 in May, a project that aimed to replace React components with native web components, its primary goal was to make Edge faster for end users.

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Announcing VoidZero - Next Generation Toolchain for JavaScript

TL;DR: I have founded VoidZero Inc., a company dedicated to building an open-source, high-performance, and unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem. We have raised $4.6 million in seed funding, led by Accel.

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