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• Testing Strategies for React and Redux

  When the Firefox Add-ons team ported addons.mozilla.org to a single page app backed by an API, they chose React and Redux for powerful state management, delightful developer tools, and testability. Achieving the testability part wan’t as obvious, since there are competing tools and techniques. This post describes some testing strategies ...

  Posted April 24, 2018 by kumar303

• Hello wasm-pack!

  Introducing wasm-pack, a new tool for assembling and packaging Rust crates that target WebAssembly. These packages can be published to the npm Registry and used alongside other packages. This means you can use them side-by-side with JS and other packages, and in many kind of applications.

  Posted April 18, 2018 by Ashley Williams

• A new video series: Web Demystified

  This post introduces Web Demystified, a new video series targeting web makers -- everyone who builds things for the web: designers, developers, project and team managers, students, hobbyists, and experts. Our goal is to provide basic information for beginners, with subject matter that will also serve as a refresher on ...

  Posted April 17, 2018 by Jeremie Patonnier

• Build your own web things with the Things Framework

  Last year Mozilla started Project Things to help developers connect physical “things” to the web in a safe, secure and interoperable way. Now, with the 0.4 release of the Things Gateway, you can add native web things to your gateway, to control them alongside all your other smart home devices. ...

  Posted April 16, 2018 by Ben Francis

• Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio

  WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). WebAssembly is a low-level assembly-like language that runs with near-native performance and provides languages such as C/C++/Rust with a compilation ...

  Posted April 11, 2018 by Michael Bebenita