Blogs

The word 'hoisting' appears zero times in the ECMAScript specification. What developers call hoisting is actually a side effect of how JavaScript's two-phase execution model creates and initializes bindings. Here's the real story, with spec references.

The Storage Buckets API gives web apps fine-grained control over client-side data eviction, persistence, and durability. Here is how it works, where it falls short, and a real-world offline note-taking app built entirely with it.