Let’s Encrypt will begin issuing wildcard certificates in January of 2018. Wildcard certificates are a commonly requested feature and there are some use cases where they make HTTPS deployment easier.
It’s common for a modern JavaScript project to depend on 700–1200 packages. When you’re using that many packages, any system that requires you to manually check for updates is totally unworkable, making SemVer critical — but SemVer is also why there are that many packages in the first place.
With the vast variety of portable devices, brands and screen resolutions out there it is impossible to accurately predict exactly what size of screen your users are going to be using.
Developer tools for the web have been going leaps and bounds in the last years and a lot of effort of browser makers goes into them. They are seen as a sign of how important the browser is.
GPUs are so effective that an entire ecosystem of specialized languages and environments has grown up around general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) focusing on high performance code. We, though, will focus on portability and instructional design, limiting our discussion to techniques available from within a web browser.
Most of you reading this have probably encountered this image at least once. It's a joke we can all relate to, right? You try and do something simple with CSS, and the arcane ways in which even basic properties interact inevitably borks it up.
Mocking will keep your tests dead simply and isolate your's code base from outside. You will spend less time during writing tests, and a lot less during refactoring.