#webdev

There was a time when creating a web page meant creating an html file, yet nowadays it seems impossible to build any frontend without the bottomless pit of node_modules, yielding a finely chewed yet hefty bundle.xyz.js. Well, I got to learn that it might not be the case soon and, naturally, I feel the urge to share it with the rest of you.

They say Go is the language of the web. Of course, with Google backing it up it sounds very objective! But is it as good as they say? I can think of cases where it wouldn't be a good fit

It's been a long time since I got excited about a framework. I often advocate for reinventing the wheel, how come I'm writing an ode to a framework? Short answer because SvelteKit is very good, even though it's still in beta. The long answer is ahead.

Essentially, Git keeps tabs on text changes, but the definition is a version control system. Chances are you've already used git one way or another: it is a de-facto standard for code versioning due to it's distributed nature, as opposed to centralised Apache Subversion (SVN).

In this tutorial we'll build a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) hashing function. More specifically, its 32 bit variant called "CRC-32". I bumped into it in the PNG specification, but it's also used in Gzip and bunch of other formats and protocols. In short, it makes a tiny (4 bytes) hash out of whatever binary data you feed to it and changes significantly if data changes even slightly. Of course, such a tiny function is not even close to be crypto secure, therefore it's only used to check if data was transferred correctly.

Binary is the very core of everything digital, not only in web development, but literally everything: from variables and file data to transport protocols and executables themselves.

There are quite a few cases where you can benefit from importing an arbitrary file directly: in universal apps, tests, or simply to avoid boilerplate. Good news: you don't need Babel, Webpack, or anything else for it.

JavaScript Number type would have been called double or float64 in a compiled language. Therefore, numbers have some limits