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Detect Supported Video Formats with JavaScript
Over the past few years we've been seeing new audio, video, and image formats take shape to challenge the legacy formats that we've used since the web's inception. This is a great development as we have more processing power and better compression algorithms have been developed...
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Creating a Cloudinary Vue Component
While React.js has taken much of the attention during the latest wave of JavaScript frameworks, Vue.js has quietly become a favorite of many developers that find React overly complex and don't want to deal with the webpack tooling. With Vue you can simply include the Vue...
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Conquering Impostor Syndrome
Two years ago I documented my struggles with Imposter Syndrome and the response was immense. I received messages of support and commiseration from new web developers, veteran engineers, and even persons of all experience levels in other professions. I've even caught myself reading the post...
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Node.js Debugging
Proper logging is of massive utility for web apps, both during development and after deployment. What can sometimes be difficult is organizing both the code and output of logging, i.e. knowing where each log message is coming from. I recently found
debug, a Node.js utility...-
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Object.create(null)
One of the funnest parts of JavaScript, or any programming language really, is that there are loads of tiny tricks and quirks that make the language that much more interesting. I recently learned a nice fact about
Object.create: usingnullas the only argument to create an...![Node.js Port Scanner]()
Node.js Port Scanner
Node.js has become an incredible tool for creating services or utilities that act like a service. Usually it's
npm start, wait a moment, and you'll see the utility provide an address and port; a good example beinglocalhost:8000. One thing that bugs me about this pattern...![Observing Intersection Observers]()
Observing Intersection Observers
As developing for the web has matured and JavaScript engines have become faster, one area remains a significant bottleneck - rendering. It's because of this that so many of the recent development efforts have been focused around rendering, with virtual DOM being one of the more...
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Upcoming O’Reilly Velocity Conferences
Velocity Conference is one of those conferences that every type of software industry specialist should go to, and I say that as a front-end developer. Velocity covers a host of important topics: security, performance and scaling, devops, leadership, and more. While I love nothing more...
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Create Zip Files with JavaScript
While we're doing amazing things with JavaScript on the server side, it's important not to take our eyes off of some of the great stuff happening on the client side. One such awesome project I recently discovered was JSZip: a JavaScript library that allows you...
