Node.js Articles
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Introducing AWSBOX, the DiY PaaS for Node.JS – A Node.js holiday season, part 12
This is episode 12, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part, and covers awsbox. Once you’ve written a server in Node.js, how do you deploy it? Instead of using a pre-existing “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) provider, the Identity team at Mozilla […]
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Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js
In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline. Using Redis on the server-side When adding records in Redis, we aren’t working with a relational database like in MySQL or PostgreSQL. We are […]
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Localization in Action, part 3 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 11
This is episode 11, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part about localization, hopefully making you feel all ready to handle that now! Using Our Strings So first we added the i18n-abide module to our code, then our Localization (L10n) team did […]
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Web Payments with PaySwarm: Assets and Listings (part 2 of 3)
The Promise of Web Payments The first article in this series on PaySwarm outlined how the technology is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. It went on to explain how taking the tools that have been traditionally only available to banks, Wall Street, and large […]
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Localization community, tools & process, part 2 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 10
This is episode 10, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Let’s talk some more localization! In our previous post “How to Localize Your Node.js service”, we learned how to add i18n-abide to our code. We wrapped strings in both templates and JavaScript files. As developers, […]
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Localize Your Node.js Service, part 1 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 9
This is episode 9, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Now it’s time to delve into localization! Did you know that Mozilla’s products and services are localized into into as many as 90 languages? The following are just a few examples of localization: Text translated […]
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Serving Backbone for Robots & Legacy Browsers
I like the Single Page Application model and Backbone.js, because I get it. As a former Java developer, I am used to object oriented coding and events for messaging. Within our HTML5 consultancy, SC5, Backbone has become almost a synonym for single page applications, and it is easy to move between projects because everybody gets […]
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Fantastic front end performance, part 3 – Big performance wins by optimizing fonts – A Node.js holiday season, part 8
This is episode 8, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Today we’re talking even more front end performance! We reduced Persona’s font footprint 85%, from 300 KB to 45 KB, using font subsetting. This post outlines exactly how we implemented these performance improvements, and gives […]
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Taming Configurations with node-convict – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 7
This is episode 7, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Today it’s time to talk about configuration. In this installment of “A Node.JS Holiday Season” series we’ll take a look at node-convict, a tool that helps manage the configuration of node.js applications. It provides transparent […]
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Fantastic front-end performance, part 2: caching dynamic content with etagify – A Node.JS Holiday Season, part 6
This is episode 6, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Today it’s time for the second part about front end performance. You might know that Connect puts ETags on static content, but not dynamic content. Unfortunately, if you dynamically generate i18n versions of static pages, […]
