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If you’re at all confused about when it’s cool to use a div and when it’s not, this is the post for you.

Memory leaks suck and they proliferate when you slice & dice the DOM using JavaScript. Edge DevTools makes it easy to debug “detached elements” now.

Years ago we started thinking about how PWAs could extend their reach into the titlebar (like Electron apps can) and it’s finally a reality! Check out this deep dive from Patrick Brosset to learn how to do it with just a little bit of CSS and/or JavaScript.

Testing JavaScript memory usage is not done often enough, but it’s incredibly important. This is an awesome guide from Tim Kadlec.

This has some awesome advice on how to conditionally load JavaScript (a.k.a, progressively enhance) based on…

• device RAM
• device CPU
• available battery
• available storage, and
• network conditions

This is a very exciting announcement! > Both the Microsoft Edge and PWABuilder teams are extremely excited to share this Preview of new Edge PWAs in the Microsoft Store with developers today. We are eager to see developers leverage the full capabilities of the new Edge in their PWAs and ship awesome experiences to the Microsoft Store!

Love this analogy from Stuart: Front-end frameworks are essentially compilers that you require your users to run on their own machines to access your project!

Old joke: someone walks into a cheap-looking hotel and asks for a room. You’ll have to make your own bed, says the receptionist. The visitor agrees, and is told: you’ll find a hammer and nails behind the door.

This is incredibly important:

As movie theaters, restaurant ordering, college courses, and more move to online-first delivery, the notion of a corresponding brick-and-mortar venue falls away. If the current pandemic physical distancing measures stretch into the next year as many think, then this blip becomes the de facto new normal.

This is a fan-friggin’—tastic deep dive into accessible names, why they matter, and how to define them. Consider it a must-read!