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  1. Introducing node-firefox

    • by • Apps, Developer Tools, Featured Article, Firefox OS, Node.js • 13 comments

    NOTE: we presented this project last Sunday at FOSDEM, but not everyone could make it to Brussels, so here’s a post explaining what node-firefox is and how can it help you superturbocharge your Firefox OS app development! At Mozilla we’re always looking for ways in Read more…

  2. An easier way of using polyfills

    • by and • HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js, Performance, Testing, Tools • 11 comments

    Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, Read more…

  3. Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy

    • by and • Node.js, Security • 38 comments

    Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in web security and privacy: Fantastic articles, discussions, and talks but also plenty of incidents that Read more…

  4. awsbox, a PaaS layer for Node.js: An Update on Latest Developments

    • by and • Node.js • 2 comments

    This is the 2nd time we’ve talked about awsbox on the Mozilla Hacks blog. In the first article we gave you a quick introduction to awsbox as part of the Node.js Holiday Season set of articles. Here we’d like to tell you about some recently Read more…

  5. So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site?

    • by and • JavaScript, Node.js • 14 comments

    The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than 300 lines of code. Everything in this tutorial is open source, and we'll only use Read more…

  6. Compiling to JavaScript, and Debugging with Source Maps

    • by and • Debugging, Developer Tools, Firefox, Firefox Aurora, Firefox Nightly, JavaScript, Node.js • 6 comments

    Update 2013/05/29: I have updated the article to reflect recent changes in the source map specification where the //@ syntax for linking a source map to a script has been deprecated in favor of //# due to problems with Internet Explorer. This is a tutorial Read more…

  7. Introducing AWSBOX, the DiY PaaS for Node.JS – A Node.js holiday season, part 12

    • by • A Node.JS Holiday Season, Node.js • 3 comments

    This is episode 12, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part, and covers awsbox. Once you’ve written a server in Node.js, how do you deploy it? Instead of using a pre-existing “Platform Read more…

  8. Building a Notes App with IndexedDB, Redis and Node.js

    • by • IndexedDB, Node.js • 4 comments

    In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a basic note-taking app that syncs local and remote content if you are online and defaults to saving locally if offline. Using Redis on the server-side When adding records in Redis, we aren’t working with Read more…

  9. Localization in Action, part 3 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 11

    • by and • A Node.JS Holiday Season, Node.js • 5 comments

    This is episode 11, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part about localization, hopefully making you feel all ready to handle that now! Using Our Strings So first we added the i18n-abide Read more…

  10. Web Payments with PaySwarm: Assets and Listings (part 2 of 3)

    • by and • Node.js, Payments, Standards • Comments off

    The Promise of Web Payments The first article in this series on PaySwarm outlined how the technology is designed to transmit and receive funds with the same ease as sending and receiving an email. It went on to explain how taking the tools that have Read more…