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Recently I’ve joined a team that’s creating a UI library using web components. This is great – but it has its challenges. One of these challenges is form association behind Shadow DOM.
When we create a form, we expect the …
I was in a job interview a while ago and one of the problems raised there was handling different message versions in the same topic.
The problem was described as follows:
You have a producer of version 1.0. It sends …
Lately I’ve been involved with an Open Source project called AskQL. I really like the project, try to contribute as much as I can and learn a lot in the process.
One of the issues there was to enforce …
Lately I’ve started a to migrate our 5 y/o code base into a NRWL/nx monorepo. I’d might write the process of choosing NRWL/nx as our tech of choice in a different post (write in the comments or message me …
In the former article, we saw how to measure the JS heap in the browser and a few use cases it can come in handy. I was asked how this can be done in a nodejs app as well.
Let’s …
Part of the tools frontend developers have in their arsenal is the performance API. Part of it is the memory object. It can be used for various causes – from debugging performance through experimenting to performance budget monitoring.
Force reflow (or Layout Reflow) is a major performance bottleneck. It happens when a measurement of the DOM happens after a DOM mutation. With this knowledge, I was able to improve performance of an app in my workplace by 75%. …
The event loop is a core concept in Javascript. It is fundamental in order to understand how asynchronous code works – and how not to work with synchronous code.
Let’s start with a simple example. You have some code that …
The critical rendering path (CRP from now on) is also known as The Pixel Path. It’s actually what happens from the moment your javascript code runs, until the moment the pixels are shown on screen. We can also call it …
In my last article, I talked about the flyweight design pattern. I mostly talked about how it can save you (and your end user) bandwidth.
I failed to mention the save on memory.
If we continue the example from …