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How the Web Learned to Update Without Reloading the Page
There was a time when clicking almost anything on a website meant watching the whole page vanish and rebuild itself. You submitted a form, the screen went blank, and a fresh page…
Web Components and the Browser Finally Catching Up
Every few years a technology arrives promising to free web developers from the churn of frameworks: reusable interface pieces that work everywhere, in any stack, without a build s…
Islands Architecture and the Return to Shipping Less JavaScript
For anyone who has watched web development long enough, the newest fashionable idea often carries a familiar echo. Islands architecture is one of those ideas. It proposes that a w…
The Server-Side Rendering Comeback That Reshaped the Web
For anyone who has built web applications long enough, the current enthusiasm for server-side rendering carries a distinct sense of déjà vu. The idea of the server producing HTML…
How to Build a Real-Time Crypto Price Tracker with AJAX
A real-time crypto price tracker is one of the best projects for learning modern web data flows. It touches everything: external APIs, polling versus streaming, AJAX updates, WebS…
How AJAX Powers the Modern Casino Front End
A decade ago a casino lobby was a sea of static thumbnails wrapped in full page reloads. Click a category, wait for the server to render a fresh HTML document, repeat. Today that…
HTMX and the UpdatePanel — Why the Original AJAX Pattern Came Back Twenty Years Later
For about three years now, HTMX has been the framework you cannot avoid in developer Twitter, Hacker News threads, and conference talks. It is positioned, by its creators and most…