Tag: frontend development
All the articles with the tag "frontend development".
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The 2026 CSS You Can Finally Use
@scope, container style queries, :open, contrast-color() - a batch of CSS features crossed into Baseline this year and are safe for real projects now. Here is what each one kills, a practical example of each, and how to judge adoption timing yourself instead of guessing.
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Design Tokens Are a Contract Too
Design tokens are the API between design and development - and like every API, they need a contract. Here is the three-layer token architecture, why the semantic layer absorbs redesigns and dark mode for free, and the governance that stops your token set from quietly rotting.
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Delete a Dependency - Native Browser APIs That Replaced Your Libraries
Open your package.json. Half of it is solving problems the browser now solves natively. Here is a practical tour of the packages you can delete in 2026 - modals, tooltips, scroll animations, deep clone, date formatting - the platform feature that replaces each, and why every deletion pays you back forever.
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App-Feel Without the Framework - View Transitions and Speculation Rules
We used to reach for a heavy JavaScript framework just to make navigation feel smooth and instant. In 2026 the browser does both natively - View Transitions animate between pages, Speculation Rules prerender the next one. Here is how to get app-feel on a plain multi-page site, with a few lines and zero framework.
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No TypeScript, On Purpose - Plain JavaScript with JSDoc in 2026
In 2026 the consensus is that plain JavaScript is legacy and TypeScript is the only professional choice. We write plain JS with JSDoc across every project - deliberately - and ship just fine. Here is how, the honest trade-offs, and when I would still reach for TypeScript.