Low-Code, High Risk? Closing the Security Gap of Exposed Source Code
There’s no denying that low-code is a rising trend in application development that’s likely to stay for the long run. Its impressive benefits in terms of agility and development time are convincing the enterprise, so it’s no wonder that the industry is on its course to achieve fivefold growth between 2017 and 2022. In low-code […]
Applitools Delivers Cypress and Storybook SDKs to Provide Developers with Ultra-Fast Visual Validation of Their Web Applications and Components
Automated Visual Testing at the Speed of Unit Testing SAN MATEO, Calif., October 16, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management (AVM), today announced expansion of their AI powered visual testing platform to Cypress and Storybook; two popular tools with software developers seeking to build high quality applications faster. These new Applitools […]
200 Billion Downloads Can’t Be Wrong
Laurie Voss, COO and co-founder at npm (@seldo), tweeted recently that JavaScript packages downloaded from their repository has topped 4 billion. On an annual basis, that would be more than 200 billion downloads. Wow. Just as open source software turns 20 years old this year, these numbers are a testament to the incredible magic that happens when […]
5 Resources for JavaScript Developers
Javascript (JS) is one of the most widely used and beloved programming languages in history. This can be attributed to its fairly light learning curve and impressive functionality. Designed by Brendan Eich in 1995, the language has seen steady gains in use for more than 20 years. JS itself is a high-level and weakly typed […]
Node.js Foundation Embraces HTTP/2
The latest version of Node.js will significantly increase the DevOps challenges surrounding the most widely used version of JavaScript in the enterprise. Node.js 8 adds the ability to support HTTP/2, a major revision of the core internet protocol that, in addition to being significantly faster, enables developers to make multiple requests over a single connection […]
NodeSource, AppDynamics Ally for Node.js DevOps
The prevalence of Node.js as the most widely deployed instance of JavaScript is putting a lot of pressure on DevOps teams to find ways to automate the management of Node.js applications. To provide the visibility needed to achieve that goal, NodeSource has announced it has integrated its N|Solid development environment with the application monitoring tools […]
Node.js Becoming More DevOps-Friendly
Over the last several years use of Node.js has exploded across the enterprise, as developers moved to embrace a variant of Javascript that made it easier to build both client and server-side applications. However, every time it is upgraded, all the dependencies between it and application modules written in C or C++ breaks. To solve […]
What Every Front-End Developer Needs to Know
One of the hardest things about being a front-end developer is the fact that everybody has very different expectations of what it means to be one. This, along with a technology stack that changes at the speed of light, makes interviewing for a front-end position tricky. To help you out, and to give you an […]