JavaScript Kicks - JSK Daily for Feb 24, 2021

Imagine a scenario where you need to build an e-Commerce application using microservices. You may have microservices for Customers, Orders, Products, Shopping carts, etc. The microservices will exposes APIs to be used by the frontend. However, the data returned to the frontend...

Bit

JavaScript has a bad date handling API because the Date object implementation was copied directly from Java's Date Class. Java maintainers eventually deprecated many of Date class methods and created......

Bit

This posts shows how an Angular application can be secured using Open ID Connect code flow with PKCE and OAuth Pushed Authorisation Requests using node-oidc-provider as the identity provider. This requires configuration on both the client and the identity provider. Code: par-a...

damienbod

In the world of web development, Chrome extensions are a pretty handy set of tools to have around. Whether you use them to add headers to simple requests or to scrape important data from the DOM, extensions help provide extra functionality makes life easier. I started playing ...

freeCodeCamp.org

React component tests should be interesting, straightforward, and easy for a human to build and maintain. Yet, the current state of the testing library ecosystem is not sufficient to motivate developers to write consistent JavaScript tests for React components. Testing React c...

CSS-Tricks

Looking into the near distance, we can see the end of February loitering on the horizon, threatening to give way to March at any moment. To keep you engaged until then, we'd like to introduce you to Firefox 86....

Mozilla Hacks

I find the best way to follow up my last article on stacks, would be an article on queues. Queues and stacks are often talked about together because they are similar, even though their uses and implementations are different....

JavaScript In Plain English

February 2021 may have given us an Ambigram Palindrome with 12022021, but Aymes S. has given us an Anagram Palindrome! Check out "Coding for Scrubs: Anagram Palindrome (JS)" for more!

In other, hopefully less puzzling stories, Maxime Laboissonniere takes us throug...

JavaScript Kicks

When I started to work at Zweitag a lot of the technologies we use were new to me. I knew what Travis CI is but had never set it up myself. I knew what a linter does but never used one for my......

JavaScript In Plain English