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The ServiceWorker.skipWaiting() method is a life saver. It ensures that any new versions of a service worker will take over the page and become activated immediately. To understand why this is so important and useful, we need to revisit the service worker lifecycle. I have a more detailed article...
When Javascript applications get to a certain size, it’s helpful to separate the code into modules. However, when we do so, we can end up with code imported that isn’t actually used. Tree shaking is a method of optimising our code bundles by eliminating any code from the...
The content of HTML documents can be in many different languages. To specify the primary language of a document, we use the lang attribute on the root element. <html lang="en"> We can also use the lang attribute within the page to demarcate specific elements or...
If you've been following along with my daily blogging challenge, this is my final article! I've done 30 articles in 42 days! Since Siri Shortcuts were announced in iOS 12, I’ve been trying to find some interesting and useful applications for it. Suprisingly, it packs a lot of power...
I’ve recently been writing about what exactly the DOM and the shadow DOM are and how they differ. To recap, the Document Object Model is an object-based representation of an HTML document and an interface to manipulating that object. The shadow DOM can be thought of as a “lite”...