Motivation More and more websites these days are making use of client-side rendering, which often means that using a simple curl or NodeJS fetch command will no longer work for scraping data. To successfully scrape sites that use JavaScript to update HTML, the best option is to use a headless…
I recently came across this post on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? (note: MOOC = Massive Open Online Course). One course that came up several times in the comment section was Learning How to Learn on Coursera. It sounded interesting, and it was only 4…
Introduction In Part 1, I demonstrated how to set up Google authentication in your Node / Express app. We then kept track of our "logged-in" users using cookies and sessions. In Part 2, we'll be doing the same Google authentication, but instead we'll keep track of our "logged-in" users using the…
Introduction This article will show you how to quickly and easily "outsource" your website's user authentication to Google. The problem Building a user sign-up flow for a new website is a pain in the butt, and comes with a number of disadvantages: It's a lot of work for you (and…
TL;DR: If you are struggling to pick up Webpack, I recently created a simple repo that can help. Since joining Uber, I've been doing almost exclusively back-end work in Python. Recently, however, I've been spending some of my time outside of work getting caught up on the latest front-end…
This post is part of a series. To check out the previous posts, see below: Part 1: What materials you need to set up a multiple raspberry pi web server Part 2: Initial set-up instructions for your Raspberry Pis Part 3: Giving your Raspberry Pis static IP addresses Part 4…