What Web Developers should know About Web Push

Published 2020-09-27

The web-push API in the browsers today. And has its first tests mastered, but there is still room for clarification. First we need to light the shade on what the web push actually is.

With web push the user can get informed about updates on a website or web application. As the user, you don't need have that page open. The notification can contain any kind of information that is interesting to the app. In a social media app a private message can be send to the users device via web push. An online shop might want to inform about the availability of a new product. A blog or news page can let you know about new posts and articles.

The fastest HTTP client for node.js by node.js

By Tobias Nickel

Published 2020-09-15

The node.js team has an alternative HTTP client, it can run HTTP requests about 2-3 times faster than the built-in HTTP module. With node.js version 15, the advantage is up to 4 times. This is important because almost every other HTTP client such as `node-fetch`, `request`, or `axios` use the original build-in HTTP client of node.js under the hood. And after the `request` lib is marked deprecated, here might be a good alternative.

multi core programming with piscina

By Tobias Nickel

Published 2020-09-11

Developing and comparing my fast [XML parser](https://nodejs.com/package/txml) with other libraries, I came across a new project for using the worker process very easy and effective. [Piscina](https://www.npmjs.com/package/piscina) is created by some developers of node.js. And it has absolutely surprised me.

How I developed the fastest XML parser

By Tobias Nickel

Published 2020-08-30

Searching for parsers that could run in the browser, I did not find anything fast enough. Sax and xml2js were just too slow for a mobile browser to guarantee a smooth user experience. So I developed my own parser and made it a separate project. Analyzing pages like GitHub, StackOverflow, that have a very busy UI with lots of elements, I figured I need to parse 3000 elements in 20ms on mobile. At that time my galaxy S3.

Reactive Apps With Postgresql

By Tobias Nickel

Published 2020-08-23

Relational databases have,.... you already know right? So recently I found how to build realtime apps using PostgreSQL. And I can't wait to share it with you.Making the client use WebSockets and update HTML has been covered before by so many tutorials around reactive programming, frontend frameworks, libraries like socket.io, and node.js server with Redis pubsub and alike.