Front End World

The State of CSS Centering in 2026

Despite the countless number of online resources, it’s easy to get confused when trying to center an element. There are documented solutions, but do you really understand why the code you picked works? Let's look at the current state of centering options today in 2026.

https://css-tricks.com/the-state-of-css-centering-in-2026/

npm Invalidates Granular Access Tokens as Mini Shai-Hulud Sweeps the Registry

npm invalidated all granular access tokens that bypass 2FA after a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud wave compromised 323 npm packages. Staged publishing also ent...

https://socket.dev/blog/npm-invalidates-tokens-mini-shai-hulud

Creating Scroll-Driven SVG Map Animations with GSAP

A hands-on tutorial showing how to create lightweight, cinematic scroll-driven SVG map animations with GSAP using path drawing, motion tracking, and camera-like zoom effects—without relying on third-party map APIs.

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/05/21/creating-scroll-driven-svg-map-animations-with-gsap/

Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions

This is Part 1 of a two-part series about cross-document view transitions, going over all the gotchas, from ditching the deprecated way to opt into them to a little-known 4-second timeout.

https://css-tricks.com/cross-document-view-transitions-part-1/

Choosing CSS Selectors for Production: Specificity, Modern Pseudo-Classes, and Maintainable Styles

Struggling with CSS selector specificity in production? Learn when to use :has(), :is(), and :where() to keep styles predictable and maintainable.

https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/choose-css-selectors-for-production

The History of Date in JavaScript

Discover the 31-year journey from JavaScript’s flawed Date API to Temporal in ECMAScript 2026 and Node.js 26. Learn how Temporal fixes time zones, parsing, immutability, and modern date handling in JavaScript.

https://nodesource.com/blog/javascript-temporal-history-nodejs-26

How to build advanced forms in Next.js using a rule engine

Learn how to build advanced Next.js forms with rule engines, client-side previews, Server Actions, and server-validated form logic.

https://blog.logrocket.com/how-build-advanced-forms-next-js-rule-engine/

JavaScript Invocation Mechanics: Understanding call, apply, bind, and arguments from the Inside Out

Deep dive into JavaScript call, apply, bind, and arguments. Learn explicit binding, handwritten implementations, and real language internals.

https://jsdev.space/howto/call-apply-bind/

Angular v22 WebMCP Tools Explained

Angular v22 is experimenting with a new way to expose your app’s real capabilities to AI. Instead of letting models guess what's happening by scraping the DOM, we can now provide explicit, state-backed tools directly to the browser. This post walks through setting up WebMCP tools to bridge the gap between your Angular state and AI models like Gemini.

https://briantree.se/angular-webmcp-tools/

Btw, syntax is well supported (Baseline)

I knew that the CSS :nth-child(n of selector) is a thing, but I didn’t know how well supported it is nowadays. Another thing I didn’t know is that I can use CSS nesting with it like in the example below. Modern CSS is incredible ❣️

https://bsky.app/profile/pawelgrzybek.com/post/3ml4nheptqc2z

Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm

The proposed ShadowRealm API introduces a new kind of realm specifically designed for isolation, and only that.

https://css-tricks.com/soon-we-can-finally-banish-javascript-to-the-shadowrealm/

Install web apps with the new HTML install element

Test the proposed install element.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/install-element-ot

Hardening TanStack After the npm Compromise

A companion to our incident postmortem: what we're changing across the org so the May 11 supply-chain attack can't happen the same way again.

https://tanstack.com/blog/incident-followup

From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance

How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/from-latency-to-instant-modernizing-github-issues-navigation-performance/