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Fantastic front-end performance, part 2: caching dynamic content with etagify...
This is episode 6, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Today it’s time for the second part about front end performance. You might know that Connect...
View ArticleTaming Configurations with node-convict – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 7
This is episode 7, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Today it’s time to talk about configuration. In this installment of “A Node.JS Holiday...
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Fantastic front end performance, part 3 – Big performance wins by optimizing...
This is episode 8, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Today we’re talking even more front end performance! We reduced Persona’s font footprint 85%,...
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Serving Backbone for Robots & Legacy Browsers
I like the Single Page Application model and Backbone.js, because I get it. As a former Java developer, I am used to object oriented coding and events for messaging. Within our HTML5 consultancy, SC5,...
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Localize Your Node.js Service, part 1 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 9
This is episode 9, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Now it’s time to delve into localization! Did you know that Mozilla’s products and services...
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Localization community, tools & process, part 2 of 3 – A Node.js holiday...
This is episode 10, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Let’s talk some more localization! In our previous post “How to Localize Your Node.js...
View ArticleWeb Payments with PaySwarm: Assets and Listings (part 2 of 3)
The Promise of Web Payments The first article in this series on PaySwarm outlined how the technology is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. It...
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Localization in Action, part 3 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 11
This is episode 11, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part about localization, hopefully making you feel all ready to handle that...
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Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js
In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline. Using Redis on the server-side...
View ArticleIntroducing AWSBOX, the DiY PaaS for Node.JS – A Node.js holiday season, part 12
This is episode 12, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part, and covers awsbox. Once you’ve written a server in Node.js, how do you...
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Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps
Update 2013/05/29: I have updated the article to reflect recent changes in the source map specification where the //@ syntax for linking a source map to a script has been deprecated in favor of //# due...
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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site?
The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than 300 lines of code. Everything in this tutorial is...
View Articleawsbox, a PaaS layer for Node.js: An Update on Latest Developments
This is the 2nd time we’ve talked about awsbox on the Mozilla Hacks blog. In the first article we gave you a quick introduction to awsbox as part of the Node.js Holiday Season set of articles. Here...
View ArticlePasswordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy
Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web...
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it...
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Introducing node-firefox
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here’s a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help you superturbocharge your Firefox...
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ES6 In Depth: Using ES6 today with Babel and Broccoli
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. ES6 is here, and people are already talking...
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Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
Neutrino is a tool which brings together the best parts of the modern JavaScript toolchain with the ease of zero upfront configuration. Embarking on the adventure that is JavaScript development can be...
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Dweb: Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt
In the series introduction, we highlighted the importance of putting people in control their social interactions online, instead of allowing for-profit companies be the arbiters of hate speech or...
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Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and Object.freeze()
In March of last year, the MDN Engineering team began the experiment of publishing a monthly changelog on Mozilla Hacks. After nine months of the changelog format, we’ve decided it’s time to try...
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