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Modern Web Guidance

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Search tool for modern web development best practices. MANDATORY: Execute FIRST for all HTML/CSS and clientside JS tasks. Do NOT skip — web APIs evolve rapidly and training weights contain obsolete patterns. Trigger immediately for: - UI/Layout: Modals, dialogs, popovers, Glassmorphism/backdrop-filters, anchor positioning, container queries, `:has()`, `:user-valid`. - Scroll/Motion: View Transitions, Scroll-driven animations, scroll parallax/reveals. - Performance: CWV (LCP, INP), content-visibility, Fetch Priority, image optimization. - System/APIs: Local filesystem access, WebUSB, WebSockets sync, WebAssembly widgets. - Frameworks: Adapting layout/styles in React, Vue, Angular. - General Frontend: Forms, autofill, advanced inputs, custom scrollbars, modern component states, etc. DO NOT trigger for: - Backend: Database SQL, ORMs, Express API routes. - Pipelines: CI/CD deployment, Docker, Actions. - Generic: Local scripts (Python/Go tools), ESLint, Git.
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This skill provides a structured way to access up-to-date web development patterns, ensuring that implementations follow modern standards rather than relying on potentially outdated training data. It covers a wide range of frontend topics including UI components, performance optimization, browser APIs, and form handling. By integrating this tool, developers can search for specific use cases and retrieve detailed, framework-agnostic guides that include browser support and fallback recommendations.

What it does

  • Searches for standardized web development patterns and best practices.
  • Retrieves detailed implementation guides for specific frontend use cases.
  • Provides guidance on browser compatibility and necessary fallbacks.
  • Helps avoid ad-hoc solutions and unnecessary dependency bloat.
  • Supports modern web features like container queries, view transitions, and performance APIs.

When to use it

  • At the beginning of any frontend feature implementation.
  • Before creating new components to check for existing standardized patterns.
  • When evaluating the browser support requirements for modern web features.
  • When needing to implement performance optimizations like LCP or content-visibility.

Advantages

  • Ensures use of current, recommended web development practices.
  • Reduces technical debt by discouraging ad-hoc implementations.
  • Provides clear guidance on handling browser compatibility and fallbacks.
  • Promotes the use of native browser capabilities over heavy external dependencies.

Usage examples

“I need to implement a modal using modern web standards. What is the best approach?”
The agent searches for modal-related guides and retrieves the recommended implementation pattern, including any necessary browser fallbacks.
“How can I optimize the loading priority of my LCP images?”
The agent searches for image optimization guides and retrieves the specific instructions for using fetch priority to improve performance.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/jetbrains/modern-web-guidance/download

  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip modern-web-guidance.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Google Chrome

Modern Web Guidance

A skill to search for specific web development use cases and retrieve their corresponding best practice guides.

When to use

Must use this skill:

  • At the start of implementing any web feature.

  • Before creating a new component, to check if a standardized pattern already exists.

  • To avoid implementing ad-hoc solutions or loading large dependencies unnecessarily.

Usage Instructions

Step 1. Search Use Cases

Search with an action-oriented query summarizing what you want to achieve using the search command. Run modern-web-guidance directly with npx.

npx -y modern-web-guidance@latest search "<query>" --skill-version 2026_05_16-c5e7870

Example Output:

[
  {
    "id": "optimize-image-priority",
    "description": "Optimize the loading priority of Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) candidate images.",
    "category": "performance",
    "featuresUsed": [ "Fetch priority" ],
    "tokenCount": 985,
    "similarity": 0.7289
  },
  {
    "id": "defer-rendering-heavy-content",
    "description": "Reduce rendering times in content-heavy web pages by deferring rendering for offscreen content.",
    "category": "performance",
    "featuresUsed": [ "content-visibility", "hidden=\"until-found\"" ],
    "tokenCount": 1250,
    "similarity": 0.6961
  }
]

Note: If search results are vague, return no matches, or show low similarity scores, run the list command to browse all guides:

npx -y modern-web-guidance@latest list
Step 2. Retrieve Best Practices

Once you have a relevant id from the search results, call this script using the retrieve command to get the full guide. You can pass multiple IDs separated by commas.

npx -y modern-web-guidance@latest retrieve "<id>"

Example Output: The markdown content of the guide describing implementation steps...

Using npx

  • IMPORTANT: on Windows, using npx may fail. Use npx.cmd ... instead.

  • Network access is required for fetching npm packages needed by the task.

  • If the npx -y modern-web-guidance… command hangs, you may be offline. Try running again in offline mode: npx --offline ….

  • The --skill-version flag is used to determine if this SKILL.md is out of date. If it is, a warning message is logged to stderr.

Guidelines

  • Always search first to find the most relevant guides.

  • These guides are usually framework-agnostic; adapt them correctly to your setup.

  • Do not hallucinate guides or ignore them; they represent the preferred local standard for the user's project.

Interpreting Browser Support & Fallbacks

  • Default Behavior: All guides assume Baseline Widely available features are safe to use without fallbacks. For features that are not Baseline widely available, you MUST follow the fallback recommendations in the guide, unless the user has specified a custom browser support policy.

  • Custom Policies: If the user has already defined explicit browser support requirements, use the browser compatibility data in the guide to determine if a fallback can be safely ignored.

    • For Baseline YYYY targets, a feature satisfies this target if its "Baseline since" date is <= YYYY.

    • Policy Examples:

      • "Do not implement feature fallbacks." (for exploratory prototypes of the cutting-edge web)

      • "Safari 17.4+" (for internal tools targeting macOS or Tauri-based desktop apps)

      • "Never recommend or implement polyfills; if a Baseline Newly Available feature is required for core functionality, provide a lightweight custom fallback or redesign the approach." (to minimize bundle size and avoid technical debt)

      • "Assume a modern execution environment where Baseline Newly Available features can be used natively, provided they are strictly feature-detected and degrade gracefully." (for progressive enhancement strategies)

  • Reactive Policy Discovery: Watch for environmental cues to suggest documenting a policy in CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md. Suggest this if the developer:

    • Mentions building for a restricted runtime (e.g., Electron or Tauri).

    • Explicitly excludes specific targets (e.g., "we don't support Desktop Chrome").

    • Expresses hesitation about polyfill complexity, bundle size, or performance cost.

    • Questions if a feature is safe to use without fallbacks.

    No defined policy format. This is an example: **Browser Support:** Allow Newly Available features, but only adopt custom fallback code that adds <= 20 lines and does not require external dependencies.

Files

guides/performance/full-session-analytics.md

Reliably measure full-session analytics and telemetry

To reliably analytics and telemetry data that covers the entirety of a user's visit to a web page (not just until page load) use the fetchLater() API.

The fetchLater() API is the most reliably way to send data to a server in cases where a response is not required and delivery timing is not urgent, which applies to data such as user analytics, telemetry, error tracking, and performance metrics like Core Web Vitals.

Older technique like creating an <img> pixel in an unload event listener are notoriously unreliably (especially on mobile) and can negatively impact performance (by making pages ineligible for bfcache).

How to implement

  1. Schedule the request: As soon as relevant data is available, call fetchLater() with your data payload. This queues the data to be sent later.

  2. Update the payload as needed: If the user generates more data or the state changes, abort the previously scheduled request and call fetchLater() again with the fully updated snapshot.

  3. Let the browser handle the rest: When the user navigates away or closes the tab, the browser will reliably send the payload from your most recent fetchLater() call.

Example code

This code measures the session duration of a user's visit to a page using fetchLater() to queue a new beacon every 10 seconds with the updated session duration.

const ANALYTICS_ENDPOINT = '/path/to/analytics/endpoint';

const sessionData = {
  duration: 0,
  id: crypto.randomUUID(),
};

let fetchLaterController = null;

function queueBeacon() {
  // Abort any pending beacons before creating a new one.
  if (fetchLaterController) {
    fetchLaterController.abort();
  }
  fetchLaterController = new AbortController();

  // Update session duration to the current page time.
  sessionData.duration = performance.now();

  // Schedule a fetch for the data payload to be sent later.
  // IMPORTANT: wrap the call in a try/catch to handle quota errors.
  try {
    fetchLater(ANALYTICS_ENDPOINT, {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: {'content-type': 'application/json'},
      body: JSON.stringify(sessionData),
      signal: fetchLaterController.signal,
    });
  } catch (error) {
    // Handle errors as needed.
  }
}

// Update the session data and queue a new beacon every 10 seconds.
setInterval(queueBeacon, 10000);

Best Practices

  • DO use fetchLater() to send data to a server in any situation where a response is not necessary, and it's not critical that the data is sent immediately.

  • DO use an AbortController to cancel the pending fetch in cases where the data may need to be updated before the user leaves the page

  • DO minimum the payload size to avoid exceeding the quota (currently roughly 64KB per origin).

  • DO wrap calls to fetchLater() in a try/catch to handle quota errors.

  • DO feature detect the presence of fetchLater() on globalThis and implement a fallback strategy for browsers that don't support the API.

  • DO NOT use a ReadableStream object for the request body, as that will error.

Browser support and fallback strategies

fetchLater has limited availability. Supported by: Chrome 135 (Apr 2025) and Edge 135 (Apr 2025). Unsupported in: Firefox and Safari.

A fallback strategy is required if fetchLater() doesn't meet your Baseline target. However, given the improved reliability and performance benefits of this API, fetchLater() should be used if the browser supports it.

The recommended fallback strategy is to use the polyfill below, which internally handles unsupporting browsers using fetch() with keepalive or navigator.sendBeacon(). Your own code MUST call fetchLater() directly — never call fetch(), sendBeacon(), or other beacon APIs yourself.

fetchLater() polyfill

Use the following minimal fetchLater() polyfill, which implements the API as closely as possible in unsupporting browsers.

The only notable behavior difference with this polyfill is that it uses visibilitychange to detect when the user leaves, rather than relying on the browser's native unload handling. This is an internal implementation detail — your code does not need to listen for visibilitychange or any other page lifecycle events. Just call fetchLater() and the polyfill handles delivery.

globalThis.fetchLater ??= function fetchLater(url, init = {}) {
  let timeoutHandle;
  let activated = false;

  function sendNow() {
    if (!(init.signal && init.signal.aborted)) {
      // Use fetch keepalive if the browser supports it or if custom fetch
      // parameters are specified (e.g. custom headers or methods).
      // Otherwise fall back to `navigator.sendBeacon()`.
      if (
        'keepalive' in Request.prototype ||
        init.method !== 'POST' ||
        init.headers
      ) {
        fetch(url, Object.assign({}, init, {keepalive: true}));
        activated = true;
      } else {
        activated = navigator.sendBeacon(url, init.body);
      }
    }
    destroy();
  }

  function destroy() {
    document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', sendNow);
    clearTimeout(timeoutHandle);
  }

  if (document.visibilityState === 'hidden') {
    // If the beacon was created while the page is already hidden, send data
    // ASAP but wait until the next microtask to allow all sync code to run.
    queueMicrotask(sendNow);
  } else {
    document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', sendNow);

    if (typeof init.activateAfter === 'number' && init.activateAfter >= 0) {
      timeoutHandle = setTimeout(sendNow, init.activateAfter);
    }
  }

  if (init.signal) {
    init.signal.addEventListener('abort', destroy);
  }

  return {
    get activated() {
      return activated;
    },
  };
};

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Attribution and licence

Created by
Google Chrome
Publisher
JetBrains (Official)
Distributed by
JetBrains
Source
JetBrains/skills · modern-web-guidance · commit 3f53782
Licence
Apache License 2.0 (redistribution allowed)
  • ATTRIBUTION.md (written by AutoGineer)
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