Tag: node

How secure are your web application’s open source dependencies?

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A recent discovery of a hack suggested that at least 1,000 websites running on open-source eCommerce framework Magento were compromised […]

Ben Edelstein
Aug 3, 2018 ⋅ 4 min read

How CSS works: Creating layers with z-index

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Introduction This post is the third in “How CSS Works” — a series where we dive deep into the fundamental building blocks […]

Benjamin Johnson
Jul 2, 2018 ⋅ 5 min read

Binary data in the browser: Untangling an encoding mess with JavaScript Typed Arrays

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Until recently, I wasn’t very familiar with using Typed Arrays because I tended to avoid the the black magic of […]

Omar Shehata
May 22, 2018 ⋅ 9 min read
Getting Started With Recursion For Tree Traversal

Getting started with recursion for tree traversal

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Have you ever encountered a problem you felt could be solved with recursion, except you didn’t know where to start? […]

Alberta Williams
May 17, 2018 ⋅ 4 min read

How CSS works: Parsing & painting CSS in the critical rendering path

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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js CSS often feels like this mysterious, whimsical force governing everything that we see on the web. It can be […]

Benjamin Johnson
Apr 10, 2018 ⋅ 6 min read

Frontend in 2017: The important parts

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A lot has happened in 2017, and it can be a bit overwhelming to think about. We all like to […]

Kaelan Cooter
Dec 19, 2017 ⋅ 13 min read

Maximizing business value as a full stack developer means a beautiful frontend and a simple backend

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Beautiful car! Probably doesn’t need that ridiculous engine though When you’re an independent developer you are by default a full stack […]

Andrew O'Sullivan
Dec 7, 2017 ⋅ 5 min read
Security For Full-Stack Web Developers

Security for full-stack web developers :  Part 2

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Welcome (back) to my technical series on security for full-stack devs. If this is your first time joining us, then […]

Robin Percy
Sep 19, 2017 ⋅ 8 min read