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JavaScript numbers have an (adoption) problem
JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price
By Jacob Jackson
March 26, 2025
My 2025 JavaScript Wishlist
JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement. These five things are especially important.
By Jacob Jackson
December 31, 2024
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess
Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?
By Jacob Jackson
December 23, 2024
Replacing Disqus Commenting
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
By Jacob Jackson
March 21, 2024
A deep dive into distributed database architectures
Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers
By Jacob Jackson
March 12, 2024
10 ways to speed up web image loading
Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites. Here is how you can prevent this.
By Jacob Jackson
December 19, 2023
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?
While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling. Luckily, there are solutions to this.
By Jacob Jackson
November 29, 2023
Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023?
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
By Jacob Jackson
July 1, 2023
The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023
We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
By Jacob Jackson
July 1, 2023
Top 5 Alternatives to React in 2023
Currently, React is extremely popular, and for good reasons. It is simple and concise. However, looking at some alternatives is a good idea too.
By Jacob Jackson
September 17, 2022
How to use ESM on the web and in Node.js
ES (ECMAScript) Modules is a modern module format with many advantages over previous formats like CommonJS. How do you switch to it?
By Jacob Jackson
January 12, 2025
React vs Svelte: Which is better in 2023?
React and Svelte are both prevalent libraries for creating user interfaces. In this article we will figure out which one is the better choice for new projects.
By Jacob Jackson
February 4, 2023
10 ways to speed up JavaScript loading
JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times. This article will show you how to speed up your JavaScript loading.
By Jacob Jackson
December 19, 2023
What is Bun, and does it live up to the hype?
Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to Node.js and Deno. But is it as good as it is hyped up to be?
By Jacob Jackson
July 1, 2023
State of JS 2021 Results and Analysis
State of JS 2021/2022 is a major survey in web development. Learn all about it and what the results really mean.
By Jacob Jackson
September 7, 2022
State of the Web: React
Learn more about the past, present, and future of React and things like Remix, React 18, Solid, and more.
By Jacob Jackson
February 13, 2022
10 ways to speed up web font loading
Font loading can slow page load times significantly. This article shows you how to reduce the impact.
By Jacob Jackson
December 23, 2024
State of the Web: Atomic CSS
Learn more about the past, present, and future of Atomic CSS and frameworks like Tachyons, Tailwind, and more.
By Jacob Jackson
February 4, 2023
State of the Web: Static Site Generators
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
By Jacob Jackson
August 16, 2022
State of the Web: Bundlers & Build Tools
Learn more about the past, present, and future of bundlers like Webpack, Rollup, and Vite
By Jacob Jackson
January 24, 2022
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro
Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
By Jacob Jackson
August 16, 2022
State of the Web: Serverless Functions
What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side JavaScript?
By Jacob Jackson
January 16, 2022
State of the Web: Deno
What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?
By Jacob Jackson
July 1, 2023
Building the fastest object and array differ
How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries
By Jacob Jackson
January 2, 2022
State of the Web: WebAssembly
What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?
By Jacob Jackson
January 9, 2022
When you should and shouldn't use React
While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use. In this article, we go over when to use React and when not to.
By Jacob Jackson
September 8, 2022