Introducing: The Async Cookie Store API

TLDR: The Cookie Store API is a new browser API built to expose cookies to service worker and offer an asynchronous alternative to document.cookie. It’s available in Chrome Browser starting from version 87. Are you sick and tired of weird ways to get cookies fromdocument.

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Optimized media loading using Web Workers

It’s 2020, and we have certainly had more than our fair share of problems this year. Yet a consistent problem developers have been facing for decades is how to efficiently load media into a web application.

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15 RxJS *Awesome* Tips from 15 Sentinels

RxJS is by far the hottest library for reactive programming in the web for the past few years. It is built on fascinating concepts and paradigms which are worth digging into that aren’t in scope of this post (what is “reactive”, “declarative”, functional programming concepts and more..).

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Effective Code Reviews: A Primer

Peer code reviews have increasingly been adopted by engineering teams around the world. Here are 6 tips to make the process better for teams. Peer code reviews as a process have increasingly been adopted by engineering teams around the world.

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Gzip to Brotli: Better Frontend Load Performance with Simple Changes

Compression methods have been widely used to increase the performance of web applications. Gzip is the most popular among them. Recently another compression method named Brotli came into the picture, and it seems to become a good rival for Gzip.

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An Easier Way to Generate Recoil Tests ft. Chromogen

You’re a developer working on a Recoil application, and you want to write unit tests to ensure reliability and prevent regression. These tests should reflect how users interact with the application to guarantee each line of code is performing how it should.

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Web Push Notifications, a Proof-of-Concept

In response to COVID-19 work on traveler notifications, Egencia® setup an internal proof-of-concept on web push notifications. Keep in mind Safari® does not support web push notifications but all other browsers do.

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How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API?

The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer to send a small amount of data such as, analytics or tracking information, debugging, or diagnostic data from the browser to the server.

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What’s New In Create React App 4

Create-React-App allows us to scaffold new React applications. It’s an incredibly useful tool for building React applications. It keeps all of our dev dependencies like webpack, ESLint and babel inside of react-scripts.

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Node.js v15.0.0 is here!

This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. We’re excited to announce that Node.js 15 was released today. Node.js 15 replaces Node.js 14 as our ‘current’ release line, with Node.

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