Node.js Articles
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Refactoring MDN macros with async, await, and Object.freeze()
In January, the MDN engineering team landed a major refactoring of the KumaScript codebase, the underlying Node server that runs macros in Kuma, which is the wiki that powers MDN. This work included some modern techniques of interest to JavaScript programmers.
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Dweb: Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt
Scuttlebutt is a free and open source social network with unique offline-first and peer-to-peer properties. Mainstream closed platforms have become a more popular way of creating and consuming content than the Web. Instead of attempting to adapt existing Web technologies for the mobile social era, Scuttlebutt offers a new platform for discourse that lets us start from scratch in designing a decentralized social ecosystem.
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Using Neutrino to jump-start modern JavaScript development
Neutrino is a tool which brings together the best parts of the modern JavaScript toolchain with the ease of zero upfront configuration. Built to let you hit the ground running, Neutrino combines the power of Webpack with the simplicity of presets to build web and Node.js projects.
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ES6 In Depth: Using ES6 today with Babel and Broccoli
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. ES6 is here, and people are already talking about ES7, what the future holds, and what shiny features a new standard can offer. As web developers, we wonder […]
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Introducing node-firefox
NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here’s a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help you superturbocharge your Firefox OS app development! At Mozilla we’re always looking for ways in which we can make developers’ lives easier. When aspiring app […]
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, and help us improve it. More pictures, they said. So […]
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Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy
Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web security and privacy: Fantastic articles, discussions, and talks but also plenty of incidents that raised awareness. Most websites are, however, still stuck with the […]
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awsbox, a PaaS layer for Node.js: An Update on Latest Developments
This is the 2nd time we’ve talked about awsbox on the Mozilla Hacks blog. In the first article we gave you a quick introduction to awsbox as part of the Node.js Holiday Season set of articles. Here we’d like to tell you about some recently added features to awsbox. To briefly recap, awsbox is a […]
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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site?
The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than 300 lines of code. Everything in this tutorial is open source, and we'll only use other open-source technologies, such as Node.js, MongoDB, and Balanced Payments. […]
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Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps
Update 2013/05/29: I have updated the article to reflect recent changes in the source map specification where the //@ syntax for linking a source map to a script has been deprecated in favor of //# due to problems with Internet Explorer. This is a tutorial on how to write a compiler which generates JavaScript as […]
