JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Security on the web, Node async/await, AR.js

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In this first episode of JS Party, Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton, and Rachel White discuss security on the web and how SHA-1 is broken, Node.js v7.6 and async/await, and this week’s featured project AR.js.

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    • Featuring:

    • Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
    • Rachel White – GitHub, X
    • Alex Sexton – Website, GitHub, X

    Show Notes:

    The topics covered in today’s show:

    • Security on the web
    • SHA-1 is broken
    • Node.js v7.6 gets async/await

      • Featured Project — AR.js.

      • Stop using SHA-1
      • The effects of SHA-1 on Git
      • Multiformats
      • Multihash and JS Multihash
      • Observatory by Mozilla - a project designed to help developers, system administrators, and security professionals configure their sites safely and securely
      • The PCI Security Standards Council - a global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.
      • Node.js v7.6 gets async/await
      • Experimenting with async/await
      • co - Generator based control flow goodness for nodejs and the browser, using promises, letting you write non-blocking code in a nicer way.
      • AR.js
        • Picks from the panel

        Mikeal:

        • regl - Declarative stateless rendering for WebG
        • bits.coop

          • Alex:

          • Observatory by Mozilla

            • Rachel:

            • How Computers Read Pixels (Drawing on Canvas) — Mariko Kosaka

              • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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