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Background Routing is a key piece of every web application. At its heart, routing involves taking a URL, applying some pattern matching or other app-specific logic to it, and then, usually, displaying web content based on the result. Routing might be implemented in a number of ways: it's sometimes code running on a server that maps a path to files on disk, or logic in a single-page app that waits

Modern browsers today will sometimes suspend pages or discard them entirely when system resources are constrained. In the future, browsers want to do this proactively, so they consume less power and memory. The Page Lifecycle API provides lifecycle hooks so your pages can safely handle these browser interventions without affecting the user experience. Take a look at the API to see whether you shou

Chrome 64 comes with a highly anticipated new feature in Web Audio API - AudioWorklet. This article introduces its concept and usage for those who are eager to create a custom audio processor with JavaScript code. Please take a look at the live demos on GitHub. Also the next article in series, Audio Worklet Design Pattern, might be an interesting read for building an advanced audio app. Background

New features and changes coming to DevTools in Chrome 62: Support for top-level await operators in the Console. Screenshots of a portion of the viewport, and screenshots of specific HTML nodes. CSS Grid highlighting. A new Console API for querying objects. Negative filters and URL filters in the Console. HAR imports in the Network panel. Previewable cache resources. More predictable cache debuggin

TL;DR If you are familiar with Flexbox, Grid should feel familiar. Rachel Andrew maintains a great website dedicated to CSS Grid to help you get started. Grid is now available in Google Chrome. Flexbox? Grid? Over the past few years, CSS Flexbox has become widely used and browser support is looking really good (unless you are one of the poor souls that have to support IE9 and below). Flexbox made

In Chrome 67, we announced the WebXR Device API for both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), though only the VR features were enabled. VR is an experience based purely on what's in a computing device. AR on the other hand allows you to render virtual objects in the real world. To allow placement and tracking of those objects, we just added the WebXR Hit Test API to Chrome Canary, a ne

The Chrome team recently announced that we are moving DOM properties to the prototype chain. This change, implemented in Chrome 43 - (Beta as of mid April 2015) - brings Chrome more in line with the Web IDL Spec and other browsers’ implementations, such as IE and Firefox. Edit: clarified   Older WebKit based browsers, are currently not compatible with the spec, however Safari now is. The new behav

Build with Chrome Learn how Chrome works, participate in origin trials, and build with Chrome everywhere.

Build with Chrome Learn how Chrome works, participate in origin trials, and build with Chrome everywhere.

Build with Chrome Learn how Chrome works, participate in origin trials, and build with Chrome everywhere.