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The Definitive Guide to DateTime Manipulation

Time and date manipulation is notoriously difficult. Developers encountering time zone rules, leap seconds, differences in locale-specific formatting are wise to resort to popular time and date manipulation libraries. But without thinking about how exactly they work, it’s still easy to create all sorts of obscure bugs.

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Punit Jajodia

Punit Jajodia

Punit is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur. He has worked on big data and real-time 3D simulations and is a MEAN stack expert.

Enhanced Git Flow Explained

Git provides basic branching operations, but advanced patterns are left up to the user. The popular “Git flow” branching model helps, but can also complicate some common procedures.

Thankfully, a new variation retains the benefits, while streamlining everyday work.

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Daniel Ivanov

Daniel Ivanov

Daniel has helped startups bring products to market for more than a decade using best-of-breed approaches to HTML/CSS, JS, Python, and C#.

Building a Node.js/TypeScript REST API, Part 1: Express.js

Learn practical TypeScript patterns with interfaces and extended classes. Avoid messy console.log() statements with Winston and the Node.js debug module. Create an Express.js-powered REST API back end from scratch!

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Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos has 17+ years in IT and development. His passions include REST architecture, Agile development methodology, and JS.

Spring Security With JWT for REST API

Spring Security is the de facto framework for securing Spring apps, but it can be tricky to configure.

This Spring Security tutorial highlights an efficient JWT solution.

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Ioram Gordadze

Ioram Gordadze

Ioram has a master’s degree in computer science and over a decade of professional Java experience. He specializes in enterprise-grade applications.

Creating a Secure REST API in Node.js

As patterns go, REST APIs are so useful and ubiquitous that every web developer, regardless of language or platform, should know how to build them.

In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Marcos Henrique da Silva shows how to create a simple and secure REST API for user management on Node.js.

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Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos has more than 15 years of experience in IT and development. His passions include REST architecture, Agile development methodology, and JavaScript.

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High-performing Apps With Python: A FastAPI Tutorial

Good programming language frameworks make it easy to produce quality products faster. Great frameworks even make the whole development experience enjoyable. FastAPI is a new Python web framework that’s powerful and enjoyable to use.

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Zubair Ahmed

Zubair Ahmed

Zubair has three years of experience as a Python developer using Django, Flask, and FastAPI. He works in avionics and aerospace.

Full-stack NLP With React: Ionic vs. Cordova vs. React Native

JavaScript frameworks based on React can help you build a fast, reliable mobile app, but it’s not always easy to determine which framework is best for your project. Choosing the wrong framework can result in an app with slow and redundant code.

JavaScript expert Sean Wang builds the same natural language processing mobile application using Cordova, Ionic, and React Native, then discusses the advantages and limitations of each.

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Shanglun Wang

Shanglun Wang

Sean is a passionate polyglot: a full-stack wizard, sysadmin, and data scientist. He’s also developed market intelligence software.

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Gabriel Courtemanche

Gabriel is a highly efficient and reliable professional who possesses a broad skill set for web application development. He's been working on a range of products and clients—from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Shopify and Autodesk to launching new applications for startups. Most of his work consists of leading technical teams, by creating an easy development environment, fixing technical debts, providing best practices code examples, and mentoring devs.
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