Tag: web

  • Writing a Browser Extension

    Web pages are mostly just a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, so if we had some way of adding some of these into a web page, perhaps from our browser we could add new behaviour to a web page, right? Yes; users have long used tools like Greasemonkey (or similar userscript managers) to inject…

  • User Sessions & Cookies in Node

    When you are learning app development, you can create all sorts of apps that work for you, but for any serious app, it’s going to need to authenticate users and persist sessions across visits. So much so, that as a professional developer, you’ll probably build that out first – it becomes a sort of boiler…

  • Updating SSL Certificates

    When I first installed my SSL certificates, I mentioned it’s a process I need to automate before they came up for expiry, but here we are ten days out, and I haven’t done that yet, but I have been keeping an eye on it though the excellent display and notifications set up in Uptime Kuma.…

  • Document Object Model – ToDo

    I’m up to Section 12 of the Complete Web Developer course “DOM Manipulation” and it feels like we’re finally at the stage of pulling everything (HTML, CSS & JavaScript) together to make minimal web apps. Since the course is light on building challenges, I’ve set myself one – to make a simple todo list (the…