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Websockets are powerful and give your site or project really dynamic. You can directly influence the visible frontend for a particular user from the backend. Magic ✨️ Yet, they can be a pain setting up. Especially, if you are opting to go with native...
As much as I love open-source, not every project or package is meant to become open-source. Especially commercial projects are usually not released under an open-source license. For these cases you can use: Private NPM/yarn packages with a license d...
A while ago I found Goutte by the Symfony Team on one of my scouting missions on GitHub. It's a really neat library, assisting anyone scraping websites or simply processing some data coming from external websites. While working with Goutte for a bit,...
If you are running a Linux development (or even Mac or Windows) machine as I am, you might have noticed that your node version is quite outdated at times. The official dependency channels are usually several versions behind the latest version. Here, ...
This is one of the small articles I wish I had found while researching a problem I encountered. So I hope it solves your issue without much fuss. If you are into the static generator 11ty like me you might stumble upon one of these messages: "Bash" ...
Before getting into my personal solution, I want to explain my personal reasons. In short, taking control of your own data is part of keeping the web open and free. Without holding and controlling your own data, you are allowing others to use it too ...
