Tag: node

The latest npm breach… Or is it?

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TL;DR: Some dude gave away his popular Node.js repo to a hacker, and that hacker added code to it that […]

Fernando Doglio
Dec 12, 2018 ⋅ 6 min read

How to protect your Node.js applications from malicious dependencies

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You have probably heard about a recent incident where a popular npm package, event-stream, included malicious code that could have […]

Alberto Gimeno
Dec 7, 2018 ⋅ 3 min read

Is TypeScript on Node.js good enough for Java developers?

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Every now and then you run into a cranky programmer who hates Javascript. They argue that JavaScript is terrible because […]

David Herron
Nov 15, 2018 ⋅ 16 min read

Creating Nodemon in Node.js

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Manually restarting an application’s process after each change to the codebase can be both exhausting and frustrating. Fortunately, one brilliant […]

Maciej Cieślar
Nov 7, 2018 ⋅ 7 min read
Full-Stack Observability

Full-stack observability: LogRocket, DataDog, Honeycomb

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In this post, we will set up an observable system for a React/Redux app and a Node.js back end deployed […]

Praveen Durairaj
Oct 30, 2018 ⋅ 7 min read

Creating a logger in Node.js from scratch

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Learn how to create a logger in Node.js with built-in transports.

Maciej Cieślar
Oct 17, 2018 ⋅ 10 min read

SQL is neither dead nor a dinosaur. You should use it for your web app.

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SQL and this dinosaur may be old, but they’re very much alive and kicking. Introduction SQL(Structured Query Language) is a language […]

Ogundipe Samuel
Sep 21, 2018 ⋅ 6 min read

A beginner’s guide to redux-observable

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Redux-Observable is a Redux middleware that allows you to filter and map actions using RxJS operators. RxJS operators like filter() […]

Val Karpov
Sep 15, 2018 ⋅ 4 min read

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