Web Workers
Listed inWeb WorkersWeb APIson
Moving expensive work off the main thread, the structured-clone boundary, and what workers cannot touch.
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Browser capabilities you reach for directly, before adding a dependency that wraps the same thing.
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Listed inWeb WorkersWeb APIson
Moving expensive work off the main thread, the structured-clone boundary, and what workers cannot touch.
Listed inObserver APIsWeb APIson
Intersection, Resize, and Mutation observers — event-free ways to react to layout and visibility.
Listed inServer-Sent EventsWeb APIson
One-way streaming over plain HTTP, with automatic reconnect — the cheapest real-time primitive on the platform.
Listed inWebSocketsWeb APIson
Full-duplex connections, reconnection strategy, and when a socket is the wrong answer to a polling problem.
Listed inNotifications and PermissionsWeb APIson
The permission model, prompting at the right moment, and designing for the answer being "no".