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Reading Time: 3 minutes Vega – Web security scanner and web security testing platform. Alright, Today I have come up with an interesting topic which is Vega and this blog is inspired by the last blog I wrote on web security. Vega is nothing but a tool, we will talk more about Vega in a while but let’s first talk ‘Why Vega’. So, next when you are done with your Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes GraphQL is an API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. It was created by Facebook in 2012 and was open-sourced in 2015 and is now maintained by a large community of companies and individuals from all over the world. GraphQL is just a specification, meaning it’s just a set of rules defined in a document. GraphQL is a query language designed Continue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Actions in Play Framework plays an important, the requests received by a Play application are handled by an Action. Action composition is an incredibly powerful way to enhance or restrict controller behaviour. In Play Framework controllers consist of methods that create Action objects to handle the incoming requests. A play.api.mvc.Action is basically a (play.api.mvc.Request => play.api.mvc.Result) function that handles a request and generates a result to be sent to the client. We can Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apart from speed, high-performance, fault-tolerance and concurrency, one more most important feature for an api is a clean, precise, interactive and user friendly documentation. Documentation plays a very important role in a rest api. The interactive documentation makes api more easy and understandable. Finatra is fast, testable, Scala services built on Twitter-Server and Finagle, similarly Swagger is a well known api documentation framework. In this blog we are going Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s learn closures today, How closures are define how they got intialize and how they work A closure is a function within a function that has access to the environment that it was created, which gives the ability to access the private methods of outer function to their inner function. In simple words function which is return by another function called closures. A closure is Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes When I took Angular 2 to build my application, I still had my doubts to go with Angular 2 or some other framework. But after some research, I decided to go with Angular 2. It gives the ability to make Single Page Application in a perfect and viable way. Here are some others reasons / advantages I liked: 1. TypeScript : Unlike javascript, typescript is Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog, we will see how to build a simple application using elm. Elm is a functional language that compiles into javascript with following features:- 1) Â Great Performance 2) Â No run-time exception 3) Â Javascript Interop 4) Â Friendly error message 5) Â Ability to write functional code Elm is getting popular day by day. According to Slant community, it is the 2nd most popular language, which Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes What is Jenkins Jenkins is a powerful application that allows continuous integration and continuous delivery of projects, regardless of the platform you are working on. It is a free source that can handle any kind of build or continuous integration. You can integrate Jenkins with a number of testing and deployment technologies. How Jenkins work? Below point explains the work flow of jenkins: 1) Developers Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog we will see the comparison of different NodeJs templating engines as well as we will go through the basics of NodeJs then we will create a signup application in NodeJs with MongoDB as backend. If you are starting with NodeJs from this blog post, you are right place, when i started NodeJs previous week and tried some examples i got into the Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Folks, If we have quite a long text, and we want to show it into three adjacent columns, One way to implement it via three <div>’s  or <p>’s in HTML and adding CSS properties. For example If we have a long text as following : And We want to show it into three separate adjacent columns for better readability, it can be done as follow: HTML: And furthermore for adjacent Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog I will be discussing about the latest version of selenium i.e Selenium 3 . To use selenium 3 , we need Gecko driver to run the test cases in Mozilla browser. So,the first question that arises in our mind is “What is Gecko?” Gecko is the name of the layout engine developed by the Mozilla Project. … Gecko’s function is to read Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes In my previous post, I tried to create a pure front-end application using Scala.js and ScalaCSS. So that we can build our front-end also in a typesafe way. But there was no server interaction. This time I have tried to make server interaction using play framework. Since this application is about Weather Information System, so I am  hitting a third party api to get weather Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes In my previous posts, I created an application ‘Weather Report‘, based on Scala.js and explained how to write test-case in Scala.js using same application.  Earlier I was creating html page using Scala.Js Jquery library.  But code was not very clean and well structured. I started exploring ScalaTags and ScalaCSS to make application more interactive and clean using Scala.js. ScalaTags is HTML construction library for Scala Continue Reading