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Stateful is now in public beta, offering engineers and their teams free access to collaborative DevOps Notebooks - built on the Runme toolchain (OSS).

Learn how Runme v3.6 allows you to embed and interact with AWS, GCP, and Azure Cloud UIs directly in your Markdown docs. It is entirely local; no servers or backends are required. Level up your Markdown docs, describing workflows and troubleshooting with much higher contextual relevance and near-zero tooling overhead.

Learn how Runme brings securely shareable GitHub Gists to your day-to-day DevOps workflows and documentation.

A Stateful company update. Where we've been, where we're going and the exciting opportunity in front of us.

At Runme, we've been hard at work to enhance your experience and bring you some thrilling new features to upgrade your documentation automation process. We're excited to share these updates with you.

Runme v3.0 now features Session Outputs, capturing and saving notebook cell outputs alongside the original Markdown file. Like CI/CD pipeline automation... but truly local.

Learn what's new in Runme v2.2 and how v3's headline feature, "Session Outputs," will lift Runme to a new level of infrastructure docs confidence.

System hardening is an essential practice that involve securing a system by reducing its vulnerability footprint. But what if we could automate, document and streamline these processes? Enter Runme, a powerful tool that simplifies the deployment of applications and execution of commands.

The Auto-Save feature in Runme doesn’t just safeguard your work, providing a seamless and hassle-free way to ensure that your work is continuously saved to the Runme Playground; it’s also super handy for getting a teammate involved in troubleshooting.

Learn what's new in Runme v2.0 and how it's an excellent solution for internal documentation to capture and spread what's otherwise tribal knowledge around your team.

At its core, a runbook is a documented set of procedures, instructions, and guidelines designed to help IT professionals and operations teams carry out routine tasks, troubleshoot issues, and handle emergency situations effectively.

The shebang is a simple and convenient way to ensure that the correct interpreter or program is used to execute a script or program file.

A runbook is a go-to reference for step-by-step instructions on what to do in a variety of situations. In this article, we'll dive deep into what runbooks are, why they matter, and provide you with real-world examples to illustrate their significance.

In today's Runme CLI release, we're shipping Project Mode. Project Mode elevates tasks simplifying the CLI user experience without requiring authors to sacrifice the structure and organization of their markdown files describing runbooks and common workflows.

Unbreak your docs and runbooks. RUNME combined with GitHub Actions for VS Code lets you understand when to trigger what workflow, monitor results, and stay in control without having to bend over backward.

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

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.

Learn how to implement a Node.js application that connects to Asana and requests the authenticated user's data by using OAuth 2.

There is love-hate relationship with UTM parameters for performance marketing. Let’s explore a technical solution for automatically adding UTM tracking codes to all of your inbound links.

This post discusses the many uses of third-party integrations and how they can be useful for developers.

This post shows how you can automate sending Google Spreadsheet charts to Slack on a schedule. No programming experience is required.

Intuit uses OAuth2 to authorize applications for access to company data. Here's how to use their library to authorize your Node app.

In this post, we'll see how to integrate Zoom OAuth into your Node.js app. First, you need to connect your web app to the Zoom client.

While utilizing one of the top calendar apps, there is the very useful Google Calendar APIs which can programmatically generate events.

This article provides you with the tools needed to fix any Discord API rate limiting issues that you encounter.

HubSpot and Pipedrive can help your team manage sales and track your marketing. Here's how to get them to work together.

In this Google Sheets API tutorial for beginners, learn how to use the Google Sheets API to perform basic CRUD operations.

Let's take a look at what the Discord API is, how to set it up, and the steps for making requests to its endpoints.

Google’s Search Console API is an extremely useful tool for webmasters who rely on traffic data and SEO optimizations as a critical part of informing their online strategy.

In this post, you'll learn how to use the Trello API by walking through some 6 trello api examples. Let's get started.

This post will review a few HTTP API access control approaches, from simple API keys to OAuth.

In this tutorial, we'll go over step by step how to use the Discord API and integrate Discord OAuth into your Node.js application.

We'll build a simple React app that uses Google Calendar API and that lists and adds events to your calendar. Let’s dive in.

Let's take a look at how to integrate your app with HubSpot using OAuth and Node.js and get a further understanding of what they are.

Follow this tutorial to write the code necessary to implement Slack OAuth in a Node.js app then connect it to Slack and a Slack workspace.

In this post, we'll learn about the Google Sheets API limits. When we're making an app, using Google Sheets, we often hit this rate limit.

This post will help you set up a simple metering and reporting system for the HTTP APIs of your app using BigQuery and DataStudio

Learn how to use Slack block kit to build an interactive Image Carousel

Did you know that the inventor of scientific computing, the first compiler, the personal computer, and the technology behind WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, were all women?

Third-party APIs like the Trello API can make life easier for developer. We'll discuss best practices to avoid rate limits in the Trello API.

Follow this guide to setting up and using Gmail API in Node.js to read, drafts, and send emails.

In this post, we'll connect PagerDuty to a Node.js application. In order to implement this without exposing user data, we'll use OAuth.

How do you integrate LinkedIn OAuth into an app? What are the steps? How do you get LinkedIn OAuth credentials? Get the answers in this post!

Reddit OAuth makes it possible for your application to make HTTP requests to Reddit's API endpoint. Read on to teach users how to sign in with OAuth.

Google’s Calendar API provides push notifications that let you watch for changes to resources. Learn how to create WebHooks to listen and respond to Calendar changes using Node.js.

In this post, we'll cover the basics of Gmail API and how to send emails using the Gmail API accompanied by examples and code.

Learn the differences between WebAssembly, Docker, and other virtualization technologies of your choice as well as examine the benefits and drawbacks of WebAssembly.

This post will walk you through how to set up and use the Shopify API with your Node.js app. We'll also show you examples of what you can do with it.

In this blog post you will learn the importance to rate limit in webhooks, rate limiting techniques, exponential backoff retry strategy and general rate limiting recommendations.

Google Forms API is currently in open beta. Learn what you can do and how to do it using Node.js even before Google supports their Node.js SDK.

Learn how to integrate your website publishing workflow to automatically submit new content to Google to be indexed and discovered by organic search visitors.

Learn how you can create and subscribe to form events using Node.js with push notifications.

Express.js 5 is currently in Beta. In this article, we will cover the new Express.js 5 features and why Node.js developers should try them out.

Learn how to run Deno in a serverless environment.

Identify the set of technical challenges you will need to think about and solve to add a robust integration story to your app.

Learn the benefits of credential validation, where it is commonly used, and how to implement it with other authentication mechanisms.

In this post, we'll look at how to use the OAuth Client Library to allow a NodeJS web app to authenticate and access Confluence content.

This blog post will give you an overview of GitLab OAuth and how to implement it in your Node.js web application.

In this post, we'll cover how to use the Google Calendar API with JavaScript including detailed examples of useful tasks.

Learn how to connect a Deno application to the Salesforce API and query for leads/contacts and display them in your application.

Microsoft Teams support OAuth via Azure Active Directory for users, and via third-party for apps integration. Here's how and why!

Does adding Web Workers API support to Node.js make sense given it already has Worker Threads? Or is it really only required now because it’s also “available in Deno"?

Jira OAuth safely ports data from Jira to third-party applications. Explore accessing Jira data from a Node.js application while using OAuth.

Using unified APIs for classes of systems can accelerate your integration strategy, but watch out for these common pain points.

Learn to create a Node.js app that can complete the authentication process using Google OAuth, and everything you need to know to use it.