Tag: Frontend and mobile
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous backend-development frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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Create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation
Posted on November 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Niklas Heidloff and Mark Sturdevant from IBM on hot Alexa skills topic. In it you will find how to create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation. Apart from Alexa you will also use Watson to discuss the weather, build a conversation, or choose one from a library. Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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The three types of performance testing
Posted on October 31, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Harry from csswizardy.com shared this post about performance testing and where it sits within software development life cycle. Often performance testing ownership is not clear and this is a common reason why performance gets overlooked.
Tags testing-and-quality software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile
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Automate build, test and deploy of a static Jekyll site
Posted on October 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Blog post by German engineer Lars Lühr in which he focuses on CICD for Jekyll. Jekyll is a static web site generator written in Ruby. In this post he wants to provide a complete tutorial on how to automatically build, test, integrate and deploy a Jekyll site to a FTP server.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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How to mock ES6 class
Posted on October 29, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Madhan Ganesh post about mocking a class in JavaScript for the purpose of unit testing. The post targets developers who are coming to ES6 from environments that has features like dependency injection and interfaces.
Tags frontend-and-mobile testing-and-quality backend-development software-engineering
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Why did we choose Elixir for backend development of MoodleNet?
Posted on October 27, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Alex Castaño short technical post on their decision to use Elixir in production for their web site. MoodleNet empowers communities of educators to share and learn from each other to improve the quality of education.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile
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Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto
Posted on October 23, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous
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Comparison between Angular and React and their core languages
Posted on October 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dler Ari brings you an article, in which he will compare two of the most popular web technologies in 2018, and also address their history, key differences, core languages used (TypeScript and JavaScript) and so forth.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis
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Launching my first Flutter app
Posted on October 16, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Writing lighter, faster JavaScript functions
Posted on October 11, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Nick Gard sweet article about making your JavaScript functions faster. He relies on 3 simple rules to guide him.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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CSS debugging and optimization: browser-based developer tools
Posted on October 9, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Tiffany Brown article in which she delves into the browser-based developer tools for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. This article is very helpful for anybody on road to become a CSS master.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development
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Building a scalable promise based Node.js library
Posted on September 27, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ross Bulat wrote a tutorial about building a scalable Node.js library based on Promises. In it he explains how to tackle large async / await Promise based libraries.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development software-engineering