Articles by kumar303
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Developing cross-browser extensions with web-ext 3.2.0
The web-ext tool was created at Mozilla to help you build browser extensions faster and more easily. Although our first launch focused on support for the desktop Firefox browser, followed by Firefox for Android, our vision was always to support cross-platform development once we shipped Firefox support. With the 3.2.0 release, you can finally use
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Testing Strategies for React and Redux
When the Firefox Add-ons team ported addons.mozilla.org to a single page app backed by an API, they chose React and Redux for powerful state management, delightful developer tools, and testability. Achieving the testability part wan’t as obvious, since there are competing tools and techniques. This post describes some testing strategies that are working really well.
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Easier in-app payments with fxpay
For developers building web applications on Firefox OS or Firefox Desktop, supporting payments is easy with Mozilla’s fxpay library. In addition to accepting credit cards, Mozilla’s payment system lets users charge purchases directly to their phone bill in many countries—making it ideal for mobile commerce. Since our first introduction to fxpay the library has received […]
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Introducing fxpay for in-app payments
A while ago Mozilla announced navigator.mozPay() for accepting payments on Firefox OS. This was our first step toward helping developers do commerce on the web. It solved the problem of processing payments but what about the rest? Today we’re announcing an early peek at fxpay, a library for the rest of what you need as […]
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Implementing In-App Payments in Your Firefox OS App
At Mozilla, we have been working on bringing payments to the web. We think it is important that developers have an easy way to monetize their apps. It also gives us the chance to offer deeper platform integration, allowing things like carrier billing in addition to credit/debit cards. We’ve talked about in-app payments before in […]
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Introducing navigator.mozPay() For Web Payments
What’s wrong with payments on the web? Any website can already host a shopping cart and take credit card payments or something similar. The freedom of today’s web supports many business models. Here’s what’s wrong: Users cannot choose how to pay; they have to select from one of the pre-defined options. In most cases, the […]
