Often smart home automation enthusiasts want to access their Home Assistant instance remotely. This can be done by exposing the Home Assistant instance to the internet. However, this is not a secure way to access Home Assistant remotely and pose the risk of cyber attacks. In this article, we will see how to use Tailscale VPN to securely access Home Assistant remotely. — Often smart home automation enthusiasts want to access their Home Assistant instance remotely. This can be done by exposing the Home Assistant instance to the internet. However, this is not a secure way to access Home Assistant remotely and pose the risk of cyber attacks. …

Every Node.js application needs configuration management, but there are many ways to do it. You might have heard about `.env` files, and packages like dotenv, convict, env-schema so let’s explore the different configuration patterns and how to use them. — Crafting robust and maintainable applications is no small feat. One of the fundamental pillars of building reliable Node.js applications is effective configuration management.

Vue.js revolves around a reactivity system, which is unlike React. In this article, we will explore how to use the Vue.js 3 Composition API to create a reactive parent to child communication. — Here’s the use-case: A parent Vue.js component needs to pass data to a child component. It does so using Props. The child component needs to receive this external data as its initial state, but also be able to mutate it internally, e.g: binding two-way data for a text input element.

Do you ever struggle to come up with creative presentation titles? Let’s build that while learning how to use Generative AI, Express and Trigger.dev with the OpenAI integration. — In this article, you’ll learn how to use OpenAI background jobs with Node.js, Express, and Trigger.dev to generate creative presentation titles automatically. We’re going to build this cool app with the help of LLMs and Generative AI:

Process long-running tasks in Node.js with background jobs. Learn how to use BullMQ and Redis on Heroku to create a scalable and reliable background job processing system. — Background job processing is a technique for running tasks that can take a long time to complete in a separate process from the main application server. This allows the main application server to continue to handle requests from users while the background jobs are running.

Level up your Node.js apps with env-schema! Manage configurations effortlessly and learn useful practices for building for configuration management. — As Node.js developers, we often find ourselves dealing with various configuration options to tailor our applications for different environments. Configuration management is a critical aspect of building backend servers, allowing us to control the behavior of our applications without modifying the codebase, such as defining database configuration and other parameters.

A comprehensive guide to adopting Changesets for semantic versioning and publishing packages in monorepos and non-monorepo projects. — As open source project maintainers, we often encounter challenges when managing project versions and releases. Keeping track of changes, ensuring proper versioning, and automating the release process can be time-consuming and error-prone. Thankfully, open-source tools have emerged to streamline this process, and one such tool is Changesets.

This is a blog mirror of Snyk’s State of JavaScript frameworks security report 2019. In this section, we review the security risk of the indirect independencies for both Angular and React, and then we also review the direct dependencies, first for Angular and then for React. The modules reviewed in…

As a follow-up to Snyk’s State of JavaScript frameworks security report 2019, this section of the report is about Angular and React projects overall security posture. The full report is available here: https://bit.ly/js-security-report In this section, we explore both the Angular and the React project security postures. This includes secure…