If you ever made a webapp in JS, chances are you used Express as a web framework, Passport for user authentication and express-session to maintain users logged in. This article focuses on sessions and how we forked express-session to make it more secure. (more…)

I'm writing a 3rd edition of my freely available book, Eloquent JavaScript. It'll modernize and further improve the book. Writing is a lot of work, and I know a lot of people appreciate this work, so I hope some of you are interested in chipping in some m... (more…)

Spacekit is an open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive 3D space visualizations - whether of the Earth/moon system, solar system, or beyond. (more…)

I have always been fascinated by the idea of being able to measure code quality. Recently, I had a chance to dig in and understand how a code coverage tool works under the hood. It was a fun exercise… (more…)

Static websites and so-called JAMstack have become pretty popular recently. And with 2020 on the horizon, this trend doesn’t seem to be stopping. Why? Why is old-school HTML + CSS + JS trio in its redesigned and renamed form gaining so much attention? In ... (more…)