Engineering

Passkeys are beginning to make their way into popular apps, from password managers to multi-factor authenticators, but what exactly are they? As this new technology promises to make passwords a thing of the past, Neal Fennimore explains the concepts behind passkeys, demonstrates how they work, and speculates what we might expect from them in the future.

Separates state management logic from the visual representation

In 2015, ECMAScript 6 was introduced – a significant release of the JavaScript language. This release...

This report provides a comprehensive guide to geolocation-related threats sourced from 3G, 4G, and 5G network operators. Case studies, references, examples, and evidence are provided to give a complete and contextual understanding of mobile network-based location tracking in order to formulate policies and actions that protect civil society from current and future geolocation surveillance.

A hands-on introduction into WebAssembly ( Wasm ). Containing simple wasm examples and wasm tutorials on how to implement concepts and various tasks using WebAssembly.

A short note on two related rules of thumb.

Partial Prerendering

The best-case scenario is that you annoy the maintainers.

In this blog post, we will highlight Snyk’s view on the new vulnerability scoring framework, CVSS 4.0, which was released on November 1, 2023.

Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?

This article was adapted from a Google Testing on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT e...

This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Tes...

Understand the purpose of react-scripts and the power it brings to building React apps efficiently

Announcing the Netlify Composable Web Platform — the foundation for companies looking to modernize their web architecture to ship faster, reduce risk, and drive higher revenue.

Discover everything you need to know about using WebSockets with React, including how to build a smooth realtime cursor experience from scratch.

This article explores how you can test a web application in Rust and compares it to the way you would do it in JavaScript - covering unit tests, integration tests and API testing as well as mocking.

About a month ago I released an app I’d been working on for awhile, Volca Sampler. If you visit the app you might be a bit confused, but among the niche group of folks who own a KORG volca sample hardware sample synthesizer, this app has been very well-received. It embeds KORG’s open-source C library for transferring audio data to the volca sample, making it much easier to load one’s own sounds onto the device.

Learn how to run NPM packages in other places — such as Vercel Edge Functions, or even web browsers — using a couple of simple techniques.

Seamless. Consistent. High performance. High fidelity. These are a few of the many things the modern web can deliver. Check out https://thewebshowcase.withgoogle.com to see what the platform can do today. #TheWebCan

Transition from monolithic to monorepo architectures with Vercel. Explore feature flags for safe releases, incremental builds for quick iterations, and skew protection for version consistency to ease codebase management and speed up development.

It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a computer programmer by hobby and passion. So I do what I’ve been doing for well over a decade now: I boot up my computer to write some code.