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7 Key Node.js Advantages to Develop Scalable Web Apps

Over the years, Node.js has become the go-to technology for building scalable web applications. It has gained enormous popularity amongst developers due to the many significant benefits it offers. With the support of an enthusiastic community, node.js is standing firm with a 51.9% stake as the most popular web framework, according to Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developer Survey. 

Looking at the rising trend, we are debunking some of the top advantages which make Node.js a popular development choice in 2020.

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Top 5 Gantt Chart Libraries for Vue.js

Nowadays, the software market offers a variety of ready-made planning and scheduling tools for projects of any complexity level, but these solutions may include excessive functionalities or lack some necessary features. That is why many companies prefer to invest in the development of web-based custom solutions. And it is not surprising, as there is a large and constantly growing number of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks allowing web developers to build a feature-packed app that will precisely cover all the needs of any given project. 

In this article, we will consider the top 5 Gantt libraries for Vue-based applications. A Gantt chart is arguably one of the most popular tools for managing projects in various industries, while Vue.js is a lightweight and easy-to-use JavaScript framework that has gained remarkable popularity since its launch in 2014. During the review of selected Gantt libraries, we will pay special attention to the following aspects: key functional capabilities, documentation completeness, availability of demo materials, and license options.

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Securing Web Apps Using PKCE With Spring Boot

Technology has a way of updating faster than security standards. OAuth 2.0 is the latest and greatest standard for modern applications, but it’s eight years old now! Its contributors are working on the next version as we speak, and in the meantime, they release “guidance” periodically to help developers use OAuth 2.0 with new technology.

Last year, the developers submitted two drafts of important pieces of guidance for OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practices gives advice for securing modern apps with OAuth 2.0, and OAuth 2.0 for Browser-Based Apps focuses specifically on web app best practices.

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How to Make React VR Apps

With the React VR framework, you are now able to build VR web apps. WebVR is an experimental API enabling the creation and viewing of VR experiences in your browser. The goal of this new technology by Oculus is granting access to virtual reality to everybody regardless of the devices at hand.

The only thing you need to make a React VR app is a headset and a compatible browser. No need even for a headset when you are just viewing a web VR application. React VR is a great framework to build VR websites or apps on JavaScript. It utilizes the same design as React Native and lets you make virtual reality tours and user interfaces with the provided components.

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What Is Code?

Sometimes, it feels like people who can code seem like they have superpowers. But what is code, anyway? Code is all around us. Code is used in things like computers, phones, self-driving cars, and all other...

The post What Is Code? appeared first on Treehouse Blog.

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How to Use Backendless With React.js

React.js is one of the best and most popular front-end frameworks available for app builders. The barriers to entry in terms of understanding how to develop an app with React are very low, which is why many JavaScript developers choose the React library for web or mobile applications. It also works very well with a large number of data providers. Therefore, today we are beginning a series of articles about "How to use Backendless with ReactJS." In this series, we will familiarize you with a number of Backendless features, show you how to use our real-time database with the React-Redux store, show you how to deploy your app to Backendless File Storage, and demonstrate how to easily inject the into your React application.

In this article, we will start by creating a new Backendless App and building a simple React app. Our demo app will be an Address Book app, so to get started we will show how to load and display some data from the server. In the future, we will modernize the application by adding more functionality.

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Why You Should Use WordPress to Build Custom Web Apps

You can develop a web app using WordPress in mere days, and for way less money than investing in custom development. WordPress isn’t suitable for every kind of app, but it’s more than a simple CMS for blogs. Once you can transcend the publishing frame of mind, you’ll see how you have some robust infrastructure […]
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Why Framework Choice Matters in Web Application Security

One of the oldest clichés in web application security is that "it doesn't matter which framework you choose if you know what you're doing." In my experienced opinion, off the back of a career in the web security industry, this notion is completely false!

This blog post explains why.