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Locate and identify website visitors by IP address
10.5.2018
(This is a sponsored post.)
Big thanks to ipstack for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week!
Have you ever had the need to know the general location of a visitor of your website? You can get that information, without having to explicitly ask for it, by the user’s IP address. You’re just going to need...
Incapsula DDoS Resiliency Score
3.5.2018
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These free training courses from Incapsula give you the technical knowledge and skills to accelerate your website and optimize content delivery. Website Performance Mastery Starts Here in a fun, quiz-based online format, these free training courses give you the technical...
IP Geolocation with ipstack (Sponsored)
2.5.2018
Knowing where your web visitor is located is an incredible advantage to any website; you can show relative content like maps, pricing, and availability, output your content in their likely language, etc — I cannot overstate how useful that information is. Of course we have the HTML5...
Level Up Your JavaScript Error Monitoring
26.4.2018
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Automatically detect and diagnose JavaScript errors impacting your users with Bugsnag without changing your code or adding try/catch blocks. Get comprehensive diagnostic reports, know immediately which errors are worth fixing, and debug in a fraction of the time compared...
JAMstack Comments
24.4.2018
JAMstack sites are often seen as being static. A more accurate mental model for them would be that they are sites which have the ability to be hosted statically. The difference might seem semantic, but thanks to the rise of many tools and services which simplify running a build and deploying...
DDoS Protection by Incapsula (Sponsored)
24.4.2018
DDoS protection is an incredibly important protection for sites that require dependability, regardless of the service your site provides. Whether your online product or service is for managing money, buying or selling crypto, or simply sharing your tech nerdery (like this blog), there’s...
Kinsta
19.4.2018
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Huge thanks to Kinsta for sponsoring CSS-Tricks this week! We're big fans of WordPress around here, and know some of you out there are too. So this might come of interest: Kinsta is WordPress hosting that runs on Google Cloud Platform. And in fact, it's officially...
Incapsula Web Application Firewall (Sponsored)
29.3.2018
When I speak with people who have interviewed for front-end jobs at cryptocurrency exchanges, they always tell me how surprised they are that a majority of the interview questions are security-centric. Basic front-end security practices are fair game for all front-end developer interviews...
Exchange Rates and Currency Conversion with fixer.io (Sponsored)
22.3.2018
My most stressful tasks as a coder have always revolved around money. Whether you’re coding a site for a client, your own business, or your employer, you want to be damn sure that any handling of currency is accurate, secure, and localized. We always want our code to work but when...
Building a NodeJS App with MongoDB Atlas and AWS Elastic Container Service – Part 2 (Sponsored)
20.3.2018
It’s that time of year again! This post is part of our Road to AWS re:Invent 2017 blog series. In the weeks leading up to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this November, we’ll be posting about a number of topics related to running MongoDB in the public cloud. See all posts here. In my last...
Building a NodeJS App with MongoDB Atlas and AWS Elastic Container Service – Part 1 (Sponsored)
13.3.2018
It’s that time of year again! This post is part of our Road to AWS re:Invent 2017 blog series. In the weeks leading up to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this November, we’ll be posting about a number of topics related to running MongoDB in the public cloud. See all posts here. Building apps...
Phone Number Validation with numverify (Sponsored)
6.3.2018
When we think about form validation, phone numbers aren’t the most pressing bit of information to validate, but if the phone number is absolutely critical to your business or application, you’ll want to do all you can to precisely ensure the number is correct. And the truth is most...