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Read this blog post and find 10 incredible tips that you probably didn’t know and can help you with workflows and local development.

Generate a branch name that follows your personal convention with BranchGPT. Blurt out what you're working on, and let AI do the rest. It's perhaps more fun than practical, but isn't that true for many things "AI" these days?

All kidding aside, why don’t we continuously integrate our repo's onboarding workflows? It's obvious and easy. Here's a GitHub Action to do the heavy-lifting.

In this blog post, we'll compare and contrast three popular Node.js version managers: nvm, volta, and asdf, to help you choose the right one for your development environment.

We know chatGPT is cool, but have you heard about DALL-E yet? Learn about AI image editing in this flexible Runme notebook that's easy to share.

Here at Stateful we recently launched our Runme Web Extension that will help us to bring our Runme Notebook features into the browser. In this blog post we would like to share our learnings building a cross browser web extension.

Learn how to leverage Runme v1 to test your docs in CI/CD and all the cool new features you can utilize to deliver seamless developer experience.

One of the most underrated features VS Code provides is Emmet expressions, they are like the missing piece in terms of developer productivity, and as you will see, it can save you tons of time when writing code.

In this blog post, we'll explore 15 hidden tips and tricks of VS Code that you might not know about. Check them out!

The Stateful team has collaborated with the WebdriverIO project to help improve their documentation by making the examples more interactive and accessible using Runme.

As a developer, you may often find yourself writing and reading technical blog posts, GitHub project READMEs, Stack Overflow answers and Developer documentation. Have you ever wished you could click a link on any of them to launch and run the commands in VS Code? Check this out!

Treat docs like code! Runme’s grand vision is to provide a flexible toolkit to deliver testable docs. Learn about the v1.0 roadmap and how Runme is planning to achieve documentation testability.

Plagued by a test that passes locally but fails when run in CI? Learn how you can debug such flaky tests by attaching to a running Github workflow.

In this post you can learn how to run Koa on AWS Lambda and the differences with Express.

Learn how the server-side rendering of JS with Fresh speeds up the loading of app and makes it faster to develop.

Highlights a number of projects out there using Deno that developers should watch and try.

Learn how using Deno allows people to quickly script distributed web apps.

The Stateful team discusses their personal favorite and most entertaining VS Code extensions. We want to explore some of the extensions we found helpful in our day-to-day work and some we think are fun / entertaining.

Check out this get started guide for people new to deno and what they need to do to get up and running on their first deno-powered app.

Run your README.md as an interactive notebook. Zero changes required to the underlying markdown.

Read this blog post and learn how the module system works and how it can benefit app developers with safe practices.

Read this blog post and learn the highlight 5 key improvements to Deno in releases in 2022.

Highlight key differences between Deno and Node.js and what developers should consider when making a decision on them.

Let’s explore how we can monkey patch the Node.js `http` library (and, by extrapolation, `https` as well) to annotate every request made from the environment.

Learn the basics of what the Deno runtime environment is all about, and highlight the key features, benefits, and detractions.

OAuth is a standard protocol used for authorization. This post will discuss implementing GitHub OAuth in your Node.js app.

This is a tutorial that will transform a VS Code extension into a custom marquee widget

Easily run your README commands from the CLI using the rdme tool. Check it out.

I'll walk you through the subject of credential management, what it is, and why it's essential to guarantee a robust level of security.

OAuth 2.0 state parameters help guard against CSRF attacks, maintain application state, and preserve user sessions. Learn how to generate and validate OAuth 2.0 state parameters.

In this tutorial, you will demonstrate how to publish and create multiple npm packages using a monorepo made with Lerna.

In this guide, you will cover 3 use cases in which Fastify shines with code examples.

Most VS Code extensions in the marketplace have minimal testing, if any at all. In this blog post you will learn how to test your VS Code extension from end to end using WebdriverIO.

Learn about the TC39 proposal of adding static typing to JavaScript

Explore three ways to send email from Node.js applications & how to add them to your app. And code samples help you get started right away.

In this guide, you will give a more in-depth explanation of what refresh tokens are, how they can improve software security, and the best practices for creating and handling them.

Access tokens & token validation are popular and tested mechanisms for securing communication between your user and your service. Learn more!

Effectively working on software projects requires extensive contextual knowledge, and finding the information you need in the moment is a constant challenge. This is only made more difficult as you switch between projects, repositories and private to open source. So why don’t we have this all condensed in a single view, right within our IDE? In this blog posts we present the new Marquee Project View that brings a project centric dashboard into VS Code.

This article will explore the best ways to implement a Node.js WebSocket client. Let's find out more by diving deep in this post.

Any modern 3rd party HTTP API that sees significant traffic will have some form of rate limiting implemented. The server might rate limit on the number of concurrent connections...

EdgeDB solves some design flaws of relational and No-SQL databases. Read the differences between EdgeDB, MongoDB, and GraphQL and the best use cases for EdgeDB.

Processing large files takes a lot of memory and can severely impact the performance of your Node.js application. Using Node.js streams, you can optimize how large files are handled.

Japa is a fast, small, and simple API-first Node.js test runner with a rich feature set. Learn what Japa is and break down its feature set with code examples.

Remix JS is a full stack web framework that lets you build fast, slick, and resilient websites. It is one of the newer web frameworks built on React.

Learn how to use Github API in Node.js by building your own APIs for getting user, commits, and repository information from Github.

In this post, you'll learn what GitHub Actions are and how to create your first GitHub Action for your Node.js application.

Learn how to construct search queries to use GitHub Search API to search users, repositories, commits, and code messages.

GitHub offers developers a powerful API. In this post, learn how to use GitHub API to list repositories in several different ways.

The GitHub API is powerful, but getting started might be frustrating. In this post, we'll walk you through a GitHub API pull request.

Learn how to implement and manage the OAuth Authorization Code Flow in your Node.js / Express app

If we want to understand the architectural performance of our system, we need to first measure the steps taken to process a request.

node-18 is finally here, and Stateful has been following what’s included for months now. Read our summaries of the big features in this latest Node release.

Node.js 18 is introducing a new type of core module that can't be imported like all of the other core modules. These new modules are called prefix-only core modules, and you need to understand how they work.

Finding a Node.js OAuth Library for your app gets confusing really quickly. Read this post to learn about the more popular options and what they each do.

Learn the best practices you should consider for managing OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens and access to your app.

Writing a plugin system enables your application to be extensible, modular, and customizable. Learn how to write your own from scratch using Node.js and TypeScript.

Learn how the most popular Node.js web frameworks approach extensibility and modularity throughout different plugin patterns.

In this blog post we’d like to share how Stateful releases its Marquee extension to the VS Code Marketplace and OpenVSX Registry through GitHub Actions.

This blog will detail how we run the infrastructure for the Grafana Loki Tempo (GLT) stack at Stateful.

Node.js is adding a built-in testing module to Node core. It will come in the form of a new node test module that exposes an API for creating, and executing JavaScript tests.

In this post, we will explore the basic mechanics of Web Cryptography API RSA key generation, creating PEM certificates for use with SSH or other environments, and how to use those keys to sign JWTs for web authentication.

Discontinuous, in that not every package has a unique version at every numerical increment. And semver in that we still hold true to the core Semantic Versioning concepts major, read to learn more!

If you decide to make a command line tool for your SaaS, great! Here’s a list of things not to do!

This blog will explore an easier way to deal with may requests by creating a big red button using AWS WAF (web application firewall)

Let's dive deep into the code that integrated Grafana with a React app, providing graphing, tracing, and visualization for their customers.

GitHub Apps are the way to integrate with GitHub. It supports OAuth Apps and GitHub Apps. Understanding what app you should create is critical for your integration capabilities.

Node is planning to introduce support for HTTPS imports in Node 18 - a feature that enables you to use urls to directly import modules over HTTPS into your project.

Blue-Green deployments is a deployment strategy that avoids downtime during application deployments and can easily roll back if a deployment fails.

You should consider setting up a private registry to protect against unforeseen circumstances and enhance collaboration across your team.

A simple yet flexible authorization model for your HTTP APIs.

Node 17.5 introduces support for the fetch() HTTP client, a new way to send requests to HTTP APIs.

We are excited to release a major update to our popular Marquee VSCode Extension. Most notably, we’ve decided to completely open source the project to include the community and encourage feedback and other contributions through public channels on GitHub.

This post goes into detail into Undici's mocking support, which enables you to write fast and reliable unit tests.

Learn how to write WebAssembly code with the familiarity of a TypeScript-like language, create low-level code with the existing web ecosystem you already know.

Learn how to use the new JS/TS module "Tangle" to implement seamless event handling and app state sync across multiple JavaScript sandboxes without getting caught up in postMessage & onMessage synchronization dilemmas.