Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives
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Published by Hacker News · Show HN (50+ points) (T2 source). The original is at https://github.com/GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance.
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SummaryA Chrome-led, open-source effort packages 200+ expert-written guides into a coding-agent skill and RAG CLI that favors modern browser APIs over legacy JavaScript patterns. Its repository-trained scanner identifies obsolete patterns, while reported evaluations show agent pass rates rising from 55% to 92% across 200 tasks.
Why it mattersThe release provides an installable agent skill, retrieval design, legacy-pattern scanner, and evaluation method for modernizing frontend code without consuming excessive context.
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