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55 | 168 | |
12,703 | 43,115 | |
0.9% | 0.2% | |
7.8 | 9.4 | |
about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components
Not these days, where most people are using evergreen browsers and iOS users upgrade very quickly.
Take a look at the defaults for browserslist, for example:
https://browsersl.ist/#q=defaults
It just barely supports Safari 15, on iOS only, and that’s likely to go away imminently because it’s under 1% usage.
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How to Clone an Object in JavaScript
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How we improved page load speed for Next.js ecommerce website by 1.5 times
We compile JS only for modern browsers. The list of default browsers in Next can be overridden in your browserslist.
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The Need for Speed: Next.js Performance Overhaul with Polyfills and SWC
In the latest versions of Next.js, targeting specific browsers or features is a breeze using the Browserslist configuration in your package.json file. The latest version of Next.js (v13) uses the following configuration by default:
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How can I find out if I should support IE 9/10/11?
For a more general answer to browser support, check out https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist. That seems to be standard tool to help you with that.
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WebGPU hits 40% availability 2 weeks after Chrome releases support
As someone else pointed out, you're overestimating Chrome/ium's market share.
Regardless, after the web.dev/baseline announcement, I looked at Browslerlist and one of our site's analytics and it is shocking how many people are not using the last two versions of evergreen browsers. There is a long tail of browser versions in those stats.
https://browsersl.ist
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Baseline: a unified view of stable web features
The way folks handle this in production is with browserslist, which lets you query on different things you want to support: https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist. This in turn tells other parts of your tooling what language features to transpile for production.
I imagine tools could be built on top of that which do what you’re asking too
- Browserslist
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Configure Stimulus with esbuild and Babel — Rails & Javascript
# .browserslist.rc # Babel Preset configuration # -------------------------- # Defines web-browser compatibility parameters for Babel to transpile your JS code. # This configuration is used by babel.config.js. # More information in here. # https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist # Support browsers with a market share higher than 5% >10%
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Getting started with TiniJS framework
Homepage: https://parceljs.org/
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React Server Components Example with Next.js
In the Changelog Podcast episode referenced above, Dan Abramov alluded to Parcel working on RSC support as well. I couldn’t find much to back up that claim aside from a GitHub issue discussing directives and a social media post by Devon Govett (creator of Parcel), so I can’t say for sure if Parcel is currently a viable option for developing with RSCs.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks
Parcel 2 emphasizes a zero-configuration approach to bundling web applications. It's a powerful tool that offers a hassle-free developer experience, focusing on simplicity and speed.
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Build a Vite 5 backend integration with Flask
Once you build a simple Vite backend integration, try not to complicate Vite's configuration unless you absolutely must. Vite has become one of the most popular bundlers in the frontend space, but it wasn't the first and it certainly won't be the last. In my 7 years of building for the web, I've used Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, esbuild, and Parcel. Snowpack and Rome came-and-went before I ever had a chance to try them. Bun is vying for the spot of The New Hotness in bundling, Rome has been forked into Biome, and Vercel is building a Rust-based Webpack alternative.
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What is JSDoc and why you may not need typescript for your next project?
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Building Node.js applications without dependencies
I’ve tried something similar on the frontend side: I decided to build a UI for Ollama.ai using only HTML, CSS, and JS (Single-Page Application). The goal is to learn something new and have zero runtime dependencies on other projects and NPM modules. Only Node and Parcel.js (https://parceljs.org/) are needed during development for serving files, bundling, etc. The only runtime dependency is a modern browser.
Here's what I have found so far:
- JavaScript (vanilla) is a viable alternative to React.js
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11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
Besides Webpack, there are many other popular web bundlers available, such as Parcel, Esbuild, Rollup, and more. They all have their own unique features and strengths, and you should make your decision based on the needs and requirements of your specific project. Please refer to their official websites for details.
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Bun vs Node.js: Everything you need to know
In the Node.js ecosystem, bundling is typically handled by third-party tools rather than Node.js itself. Some of the most popular bundlers in the Node.js world include Webpack, Rollup, and Parcel, offering features like code splitting, tree shaking, and hot module replacement.
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JavaScript Gom Jabbar
There are projects attempting to do more things. I've really enjoyed Parcel (https://parceljs.org). But it won't handle things like linting or unit testing, which you may or may not want. Vite is also pretty popular (https://vitejs.dev/), and it has a test runner.
Thing is, most of the problems described in the post aren't related to low-JS front-end libraries like HTMX or alpine. You can write React without a linter, bundler, build tool, unit testing, or linting. But with any of these projects at scale, you start wanting more:
- If you want to write unit tests in JS, you need to choose a test runner (probably Jest or Vitest -- until the built-in node testing module becomes more common).
- If you want linting, you need a linter (probably Eslint). If you want type safety, you need a type checker (probably Typescript).
- If you want to create smaller JS files to ship to production and to automatically handle assets, you need a bundler.
- If you want to use new language features while supporting old browsers, you need polyfills.
- If you want to use all these things together, you need something to bring it together (like Webpack).
So it really depends what you need! You may not need any. But as you can imagine, in many professional projects with multiple developers it's very nice to have unit tests, linting, and type checking :) (And you start caring about end-user performance a lot more, in which case optimizing the shipped bundle is important.)
Take all that, and then compare to a language like Rust, which has most of the "ecosystem stuff" built-in. In Rust, you get the test runner, the linter, dependency manager, type checker, and documentation tool all included. Easy! Thankfully, Rust doesn't have to care about whether users support modern language features (because it compiles down to lower code ahead of time), or whether the binary shipped to the client is optimally organized for downloading immediately over the internet.
It's a problem in JS because A) you have to care about more problems than many other languages since JS needs to load instantly over the wire in a web browser, and B) there is a huge amount of choice and not a lot of standardization in web tools. (And what standardization there is (Node, npm), there are still competitors trying to even further reduce the pain points.)
I think that in ten more years, we'll be in a better place, because there is push back (like this post!) against these problems, which will encourage more tools trying to solve the explosion of tools. Which seems counterintuitive, but these tools were created to solve very real problems. So I see it as a pendulum which has swung too far, but will likely swing back to a more balanced place. And you see that with tools like Vite gaining popularity.
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Whatever It Takes
My first challenge here was the migration from vanilla JS to utilizing tools like Parcel and React. React, I was a bit familiar with; however, I had never heard of Parcel.js in my life. Several days were spent troubleshooting why my build process was not working on Netlify before I finally found out that I had to set up my Netlify Build Settings specifically for using a bundler like Parcel.js
What are some alternatives?
autoprefixer - Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules by Can I Use
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
caniuse - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com
gulp - A toolkit to automate & enhance your workflow
rollup-plugin-postcss - Seamless integration between Rollup and PostCSS.
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
ECMAScript 6 compatibility table - ECMAScript compatibility tables
Next.js - The React Framework
rollup-plugin-terser - Rollup plugin to minify generated bundle
webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
react-typescript-webpack-starter - A starter project for using React, TypeScript, SCSS using Webpack 5.
Rollup - Next-generation ES module bundler