Glossary

The amount of mental effort required to process information, which good technical writing aims to minimize through structure and pacing.

The structural design of content models, types, and relationships that make information reusable, filterable, and adaptable across interfaces.

A group of related content entries in a static site generator, typically with a shared schema and organized in a specific directory.

The structural tree representation of an HTML document that browsers use to render pages and execute JavaScript.

The deliberate design of boundaries between state, data, and presentation in a user interface.

YAML or JSON metadata at the beginning of a Markdown or MDX file, used to define properties like title, date, and tags.

The CPU-intensive process of attaching JavaScript event listeners to server-rendered HTML so the page becomes interactive.

The structural design of how knowledge is organized, categorized, and navigated.

A pattern where the page is mostly static HTML with specific interactive regions ('islands') hydrated with JavaScript only where needed.

A file format that combines Markdown with JSX, allowing JavaScript components to be embedded directly in Markdown content.

A design pattern that reveals information gradually, showing only what is necessary at each step to reduce cognitive load.

The architectural decision of exactly when and where code is executed to generate HTML.

A rendering paradigm where the server serializes application state into HTML, allowing the client to become interactive without executing component setup code.

HTML markup that conveys meaning and structure about the content, using appropriate elements like article, nav, and section rather than generic divs.

The architectural principle of dividing a system into distinct sections based on their purpose, rather than their file type.

UI components that execute exclusively on the server, sending pre-rendered markup to the client without adding to the JavaScript bundle.

A controlled vocabulary and hierarchical classification system used to categorize and tag content for organization and retrieval.