may.md

May 2019

LDAP, EXPRESS, MERN STACK, BETTER UX (and DX)

• BETTER UX (and DX)

  • Chris James, How to go fast (: don't) - http://www.quii.co.uk/How_to_go_fast
  • GETTING USER FEEDBACK Dave House, Using Twitter and Slack to bring the voice of the users to the organization - https://uxdesign.cc/voice-of-the-users-67c025ba3a81
  • VERY LOUD REMINDER: Go back and read @heydonworks' Inclusive Design Patterns and all the component examples on the Inclusive Components Design site - https://inclusive-components.design/
  • Chris Kiess, The McDonaldization of UX: The Dawning of the “McUX” Designer - https://uxdesign.cc/the-mcdonaldization-of-ux-705438fea958
  • Gilles Castel (@gilles_castel), How I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape - https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/
  • Andy Bell (@andybelldesign), Relative sizing with EM units - https://andy-bell.design/wrote/relative-sizing-with-em-units/
  • (@adambsilver), Form designed in its error state > https://adamsilver.io/articles/placeholders-are-problematic/#5.-errors-are-hard-to-fix
  • Katie Hempenius, Use imagemin to compress images - https://web.dev/fast/use-imagemin-to-compress-images
  • Andrew Coyle, Design Better Forms - https://uxdesign.cc/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c
  • Steve Faulkner, "Provide an expansion of [an <abbr>] in plain text on first use..." - https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2019/03/short-note-the-abbreviation-appreciation-society/
  • Ire Aderinokun, "Avoid tooltips" - https://bitsofco.de/revisiting-the-abbr-element/#aquickasideavoidtooltips
  • Adrian Roselli, Under-Engineered Toggles - http://adrianroselli.com/2019/03/under-engineered-toggles.html
  • Scott O'Hara, Accessibly Styled Form Controls - https://scottaohara.github.io/a11y_styled_form_controls/
    • Styled HTML Checkboxes - https://scottaohara.github.io/a11y_styled_form_controls/src/checkbox/
    • Styled Radio Buttons - https://scottaohara.github.io/a11y_styled_form_controls/src/radio-button/
    • Styled Single Selects - https://scottaohara.github.io/a11y_styled_form_controls/src/select/
    • Styled Search Component - https://scottaohara.github.io/a11y_styled_form_controls/src/search/
  • Lindsey Kopacz, Accessibility in d3 Bar Charts - https://www.a11ywithlindsey.com/blog/accessibility-d3-bar-charts
  • Joshua R. Li - 58 bytes of css to look great nearly everywhere - https://jrl.ninja/etc/1/

• MERN stack

  • Michael Herman, Testing Node.js with Mocha and Chai - https://mherman.org/blog/testing-node-js-with-mocha-and-chai/
    • comes with a node-express-mongo repo - https://github.com/mjhea0/node-mocha-chai-tutorial
  • Jelo Rivera, Let’s build a full stack MongoDB, React, Node and Express (MERN) app -https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/full-stack-mongodb-react-node-js-express-js-in-one-simple-app-6cc8ed6de274
  • Rishi Prasad, Build a Login/Auth App with the MERN Stack
    • Part 1 (Backend) - https://blog.bitsrc.io/build-a-login-auth-app-with-mern-stack-part-1-c405048e3669
    • Part 2 (Frontend & Redux Setup) - https://blog.bitsrc.io/build-a-login-auth-app-with-mern-stack-part-2-frontend-6eac4e38ee82
    • Part 3 (Linking Redux with React Components) - https://blog.bitsrc.io/build-a-login-auth-app-with-the-mern-stack-part-3-react-components-88190f8db718

• expressjs on node

  • Full Tutorial Video [1:12:36]: Jason Diamond, Authentication of Express Node js Applications - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twav6O53zIQ
  • expressjs, Production Best Practices: Security https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-security.html
  • Use Helmet - https://helmetjs.github.io/
  • Scott Smith [2014], Protect Your Node App's Noggin With Helmet - http://scottksmith.com/blog/2014/09/21/protect-your-node-apps-noggin-with-helmet/

• TLS on node

  • Florian Rappl & Almir Bijedic, How to Use SSL/TLS with Node.js - https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-use-ssltls-with-node-js/
  • Davison Pro, Securing Node.js apps with SSL/TLS - https://blog.usejournal.com/securing-node-js-apps-with-ssl-tls-b3570dbf84a5

• LDAP on node

  • Oleg Kubrakov, NodeJS authentication and user management with OpenLDAP in 4 simple steps - https://yellowred.github.io/2016/06/29/NodeJS-OpenLDAP-4-steps/
  • ldapjs - LDAP with node.js - http://ldapjs.org/
  • @rohit-parte on stackoverflow, answer to Node JS LDAP Auth User - https://stackoverflow.com/a/55880793
  • @bergi on stackoverflow, answer to Promise to async/await - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41937541/promise-to-async-await/41943097#41943097
  • @bora onstackoverflow, answer ldapjs authentification (user login setup) - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13255389/ldapjs-authentification-user-login-setup/17418292#17418292
  • @aneelaSaleem, answer to joyent/node-ldapjs/issues/307 - LDAPS (ldap over ssl) working with ssl certificates - ldapjs/node-ldapjs#307 (comment)