Engineering

One of the things we believe as a team is that everything we make should be sealed with a blog post. Forcing ourselves to write up a short announcement post for every project we work on acts as a built-in quality check, making sure that we never call a project "done" until we feel comfortable telling the world it's out there. The problem was that up until today, we didn't actually have anywhere to publish those posts!

This blog post has been on my to-do list ever since I saw Daniel Stenberg’s blog post “This is how I git” (November 2020). I thought, “I should do one of those posts, too!” This post focuses on my basic muscle-memory git commands. There are at least two other major Git subtopics this post doesn’t mention at all: “branching discipline” (what is a release branch? what’s the difference between rebase and merge?) and “hygiene” (how big should a commit be? what does a good commit message look like?). That is — as usual for this blog — we’re talking tactics, not strategy.

A deep dive into how modern developer tools bring typing, CI/CD integration, and version control to engineering teams where they work.

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.