Short, focused guides to some of JavaScript's coolest modern features.
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- Dates & Times. How to work with times and dates in JavaScript.
- The FormData API. An easier way to serialize and modify form field values.
- The URL & URLSearchParams APIs. How to create, parse, and encode URLs and query string parameters.
- Proxies. How to detect when the value of an array or object changes and react to it.
- The Intersection Observer API. A modern way to watch elements and do stuff when they enter or leave the viewport.
- The Internationalization API. Convert strings, dates, and numbers into location-formatted strings.
- Dialog Modals (preorder). How to create interactive, accessible pop-up modals.
- Ditching JS (preorder). Modern HTML and CSS techniques that you can use to replace JavaScript entirely.
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