I thought this would be easy (because it's easy to stream from a backend to a frontend and vice versa) but it was not. Let's look at how to stream a file from an S3 connection on a server to another server in Node.js.
I recently had to figure out client-side mTLS certificates. I've never had to deal with them before, and it was quite annoying, so I documented what I learned.
For a long time I, someone on my team, would wait for backend pipelines to finish before manually publishing deploys from Netlify. I finally automated it: here's how! (If you have auto-publish turned on for your production deploys, you don't need this.)
I noticed recently that running frontend Playwright tests on macOS via GitHub Actions is noticeably faster than on Ubuntu. This is because macOS ships with more browser dependencies out of the box, whereas the base Ubuntu image needs to install them all every run, which takes time. But Playwright has an image with these dependencies already installed! In the end it saves about 30 seconds on Ubuntu.
I can't use macOS anymore without SoundSource. However, it frequently freezes, hangs, crashes, etc. This requires a not-too-lengthy but still annoying manual flow of opening up Activity Monitor to force kill it, then opening it again. So I made it easier and automated.
A step-by-step guide on how to setup a fresh Windows 11 installation for web development. These steps should also work on Windows 10 without much variation.
When you have an iframe loading an intense amount of content (like an entire video game, in the case of https://playfeed.io), and you need you need to reuse that iframe, you need to force the iframe to free up its memory usage so the browser will garbage collect it.
Frontend bundling is a process by which your frontend source code, typically spread across multiple files, gets squished and transformed into few files, often just one file. This post will cover some basics around bundling.
There are currently two main module formats in the JavaScript ecosystem: ECMAScript Modules (ESM) and CommonJS (CJS). CJS was first, but ESM is now the JavaScript standard and is the future. The main difference between the two is how they import files.