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Categories: Adaltas Summit 2018, Front End | Tags: API, Gatsby, GraphQL, HTTP, JAMstack, JavaScript, Markdown, Node.js, React.js, SEO
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Categories: Adaltas Summit 2018, Front End | Tags: C++, JavaScript, Kerberos, Node.js, NPM
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Main advantages of GraphQL as an alternative to REST
Categories: Front End | Tags: API, GraphQL, gRPC, JSON, Node.js, Registry, REST
GraphQL is based on a simple idea, moving the assembly of a request from the server to the client. The client sees the overall strongly-typed schema instead of multiple REST endpoints and he builds…
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EclairJS - Putting a Spark in Web Apps
Categories: Data Engineering, Front End | Tags: Spark, JavaScript, Jupyter
Presentation by David Fallside from IBM, images extracted from the presentation. Introduction Web Apps development has moved from Java to NodeJS and Javascript. It provides a simple and rich…
By David WORMS
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Categories: Front End | Tags: CoffeeScript, GitHub, JavaScript, Learning and tutorial, License, Mocha, Node.js, NPM, Travis CI, Unit tests
In this tutorial, I provide complete instructions for creating a new Node.js module, writing the code in coffee-script, publishing it on GitHub, sharing it with other Node.js fellows through NPM…
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Crawl you website including login form with Phantomjs
Categories: Front End | Tags: CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Mocha, Node.js, Unit tests
With PhantomJS, we start a headless WebKit and pilot it with our own scripts. Said differently, we write a script in JavaScript or CoffeeScript which controls an Internet browser and manipulates the…
By David WORMS
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Node.js, JavaScript on the server side
Categories: Front End, Node.js | Tags: HTTP, JavaScript, Node.js, Server
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