Security & QA

Today we look at the three technologies that give us native reusable custom elements (a.k.a. “web components”): custom elements, the template and slot HTML tags, and the shadow DOM.

Today we look at introducing build tools in a modern development workflow, including task runners, toolchains, and bundlers. Then we get a project up and running using Vite.

Uses and praxis of encryption & hashing in secure web applications.

How to avoid the perils of the OWASP Top Ten (and plan for a more secure web application).

Today we look at the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks.

Today we learn how to plan a test. What’s a test plan? What goes into a test plan? What can we test? How do web developers take a structured approach to testing? Plus, a few fun demos!

Today we get an introduction to unit testing frameworks, and learn how to write and run tests in a popular framework with an assertion library.

Today we get an introduction to server-side JavaScript, including creating a Node project, using npm to install 3rd-party dependencies, and creating scripts in the package.json file.

Today we talk about git, git’s role in team/deployment workflows, how to perform a code review.

Modern JavaScript, and how to enforce quality through language features

Development teams often have coding standards in order to increase code quality, and make collaboration faster and easier. Even if you’re coding solo, knowing the principles of consistent, readable code will help you write more maintainable code, faster!

You’re already testing! ‘Ad hoc’ testing is the first type of testing every developer does, and it will likely become a permanent part of your workflow. Let’s learn about some of the tools available to us that you can start using today (if you’re not already).

We can say that ‘quality’ means meeting requirements, and ‘assurance’ is proving that we’ve met those requirements. Today, let’s look at where requirements come from - the client, the user, standards specifications, and your team. And then: testing comes in all shapes and sizes. Today we’ll also look at why we test, how we design our tests, what all the different types of testing are, and how they fit into a team’s lifecycle.

Let’s take a look at a typical intermediate developer workflow that includes a number of the techniques and technologies we’ll examine in this course.