Since Google Plus and a few other cutting-edge websites now render entirely on the client, let's review why server-side rendering is desirable at all. Server-side rendering means when the browser ...

Google’s web crawlers have come a long way in recent years in their ability to fetch and execute JavaScript. However, JavaScript integration remains tricky when setting up the front end of a web app.

Faster webpage loading times play a big part in user experience and SEO, with page load speed a key determining factor for Google’s algorithm. A front-end web developer must decide the best way to ...

I'm finding myself in a situation where using some client-side JavaScript is needed (i.e. way more convenient than the alternatives), and I would like to do it in a browser-independent ...

A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla's Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the World ...

On January 1, 2020, California's new privacy law took effect, which will dramatically increase security risks for any company operating there as well as for third parties that might have access to ...

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Here’s a new Y Combinator-backed startup that’s sure to catch they eye of plenty of web developers: Proxino, a new service that promises to let developers detect errors on all of their client-side ...

Popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular, Ember and React have fueled enthusiasm for applications that perform most of their rendering on the client-side. Sadly, the power and benefits of ...