JavaScript (JS) is front-end web development: nearly everything you interact with on a website is thanks to this script. Before it, sites were static HTML sites with formatting and no interactivity.

Improving the client-side web experience means overcoming the challenges of ‘hydration,’ a fascinating engineering problem being tackled in many different ways. Let’s dive in. One of the most dynamic ...

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