Minimal files config for a PWA. Contribute to chr15m/minimal-pwa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Argues that JS isn’t as necessary anymore, and that CSS can replace many niches previously filled by JS. Some strategies for avoiding JS.

Cap’n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap’n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.

Empower the web community and invite more to build cross-platform apps

For years now, though, I’ve been using Tachometer for most browser-based benchmarks. It’s featured in this blog a few times, although I’ve never written specifically about it. Tachometer doesn’t make benchmarking totally foolproof, but it does automate a lot of the trickiest bits. What I like best is that it:

If you’re writing anything more complicated than a brief command-line script, reading this should help you write higher-performance, more-secure applications. This document is written with Node.js servers in mind, but the concepts apply to complex Node.js applications as well. Where OS-specific details vary, this document is Linux-centric.

Honestly? I’m saving this because it is a good bit of documentation writing more than it is useful to me as reference.