The Okta Developer Blog is a place for developers to learn about identity, security, and building better applications.
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Many of us are not familiar with vulnerability reporting and how it is different from reporting a regular bug. Frequently, I've seen people report vulnerabilities or potential security issues incorrectly. A public bug tracker or Stack Overflow is NOT the right tool; developers need to handle vulnerabilities differently and should…
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What happens when you suddenly need to work from home due to a myriad of reasons? Whether it's the daily expectation or an occasional occurrence, working remotely has it's benefits and challenges. After coming to a fully remote team at Okta, I discovered a few things about the reality of…
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The World-Wide Web, as we know it, started around 1993 by serving static HTML files with links to other HTML files. It didn't take long for developers to find ways of making websites more "dynamic" using technologies like Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Perl, and Python.
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I've always tended to lean toward Command-Line Interfaces (CLIs) over Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Maybe it's because I cut my teeth in computing in the Windows 3.1 days. I split my time between the "new" Windows 95 and Linux (usually RedHat 5 or Debian 2). When things weren't going well…
Read more about Why GUIs Suck (and CLIs are Better)
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I've been a longtime fan of CSS frameworks since 2005. I led an open-source project called AppFuse at the time and wanted a way to provide themes for our users. We used Mike Stenhouse's CSS Framework and held a design content to gather some themes we liked for our users.…
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NestJS is a modern, progressive framework for building Node.js applications and APIs. NestJS is built on TypeScript, and is designed to use solid programming metaphors such as controllers and modules. Having automatic Swagger API documentation built-in is also a great feature.
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Posing this question on Twitter, I was amazed at the amount of responses it got:
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Gatsby is a tool for creating static websites with React. It allows you to pull your data from virtually anywhere: content management systems (CMSs), Markdown files, APIs, and databases. Gatsby leverages GraphQL and webpack to combine your data and React code to generate static files for your website.
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PASETO is the latest trend in security token formats. Its primary goal is to reduce the problems the JSON Web Token (JWT) related specifications introduce. In this post, I'll give you a brief introduction to PASETO tokens and then jump into an example that creates and parses tokens using in…
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Over the last year or so, a new buzzword started floating around Angular forums and blogs. The word was Ivy. Ivy promises to make your application faster and smaller. But what exactly does this new technology do?
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In January of 2020, I was fortunate enough to join a 16 day voyage to Antarctica, and speak at a tech mastermind conference called AntarctiConf. Going to see the seventh continent was one of the coolest experiences of my life, and to top it all off I was joined by…
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Node is one of the premier frameworks for microservice architecture today. The microservice pattern allows developers to compartmentalize individual components of a larger application infrastructure. Because each component runs independently, you can upgrade or modify components without impacting the larger application. Each component exposes an interface to external consumers who…
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