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Engineering — How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js — Smashing Magazine

How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js — Smashing Magazine

The wealth of data that Amazon holds can make a huge difference when you’re designing a product or hunting for a bargain. But, how can a developer get that data? Simple, by using a web scraper. Why would someone want to scrape Amazon pages? You’re about to find out! Here’s how to build your data extraction bot with Node.js.

RSRobert SfichiRobert Sfichi·October 28, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Introducing Custom Headers for Cloudflare Pages

Introducing Custom Headers for Cloudflare Pages

We're excited to announce that Pages now natively supports custom headers on your projects! Simply create a _headers file in the build directory of your project and within it, define the rules you want to apply.

NGNevi, Greg BrimbleNevi, Greg Brimble·October 27, 2021Engineering
Frontend — Sticky Definition Lists

Sticky Definition Lists

I ran across this 30 seconds of code website the other day, and they have a CSS section which is really good! The first example snippet I looked at was this

CCChris Coyier·October 27, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Everything new from Universe 2021

Everything new from Universe 2021

Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.

TDThomas DohmkeThomas Dohmke·October 27, 2021Engineering
Design & UX — Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research — Smashing Magazine

Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research — Smashing Magazine

Eye-tracking, a method that measures where people are looking and for how long they are looking, became more accessible to UX research thanks to technology. It allows researchers to see through the users’ eyes and get insights about visual attention. This article explores the latest trends in the eye-tracking market and how the methodology can be included in the UX researcher’s toolbox.

MMMariana MacedoMariana Macedo·October 27, 2021Design & UX
SRE & Ops — Kangaroo: A new flash cache optimized for tiny objects

Kangaroo: A new flash cache optimized for tiny objects

What the research is: Kangaroo is a new flash cache that enables more efficient caching of tiny objects (objects that are ~100 bytes or less) and overcomes the challenges presented by existing flash cache designs. Since Kangaroo is implemented within CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine, developers can use Kangaroo through CacheLib’s API to build […]

CWChris Wiltz·October 26, 2021SRE & Ops
Frontend — Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx — Smashing Magazine

Optimizing Next.js Applications With Nx — Smashing Magazine

Nx is a build framework that facilitates optimization, efficient scaling of applications, and other features such as shared libraries and components. In this article, Melvin Kosisochukwu will be looking at how you can effectively scale Next.js applications by using Nx. If you’re a developer looking to optimize applications and create reuseable components across applications, this article is for yo

MKMelvin KosisochukwuMelvin Kosisochukwu·October 26, 2021Frontend
Frontend — A Deep Dive Into object-fit And background-size In CSS — Smashing Magazine

A Deep Dive Into object-fit And background-size In CSS — Smashing Magazine

If we use a width and height that isn’t proportional to the image’s aspect ratio, the image might either be compressed or stretched. That isn’t good, and it can be solved either with object-fit for an img element or by using background-size. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will go through how `object-fit` and `background-size` work, when you can use them, and why, along with some practical use case

ASAhmad ShadeedAhmad Shadeed·October 25, 2021Frontend