Azure Static Web Apps staging environments allow you to test changes before they go live. This post shows how to use Playwright against staging environments with GitHub Actions. It's a follow up to my previous post on using Lighthouse with Azure Static Web Apps staging environments.
I've wanted to take a look at some of the alternative JavaScript runtimes for a while. The thing that has held me back is npm compatibility. I want to be able to run my code in a runtime that isn't Node.js and still be able to use npm packages. I've been using ts-node for a long time now; it's what I reach for when I'm building any kind of console app. In this post I want to port a console app from ts-node to Bun and see how easy it is.
Node.js 18 doesn't allow legacy TLS renegotion by default. But some APIs still need it. This post shows how to support them with Axios.
Not everyone values pull requests. I really do, and this post explains why.
By default, Docusaurus blogs don't add breadcrumb Structured Data to their blog posts. It's not hard to make it happen though; this post shows how to add it using the JSON-LD format.
A new API landed in Docusaurus 2.3.0 - it's called createFeedItems. It's a great API that allows you to tweak the Atom / RSS / JSON feeds for your blog. This post shows how to use it with the git commit date.
Image optimisation can be automated with the TinyPNG API. This post demonstrates how to do that.
By using fetchpriority on your Largest Contentful Paint you can improve your Core Web Vitals. This post implements that with Docusaurus.
In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened? Somehow I ruined my SEO. Don't be me. I'll tell you what I got up to and hopefully you can avoid doing the same.
Support for Node.js 16 for Azure Pipelines custom pipelines task extensions has arrived. From a TypeScript perspective, this post documents how to migrate from a Node.js 10 custom task to one that runs on Node 16 using azure-pipelines-task-lib.
Application Insights are a great way to monitor Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Functions. But how do you deploy that using Bicep? Let's find out!
Cloudinary offers an image CDN which can improve performance of your site. This post details how to get Docusaurus to use Cloudinary to serve optimised images.
Azure Static Web Apps can perform URL redirects using the routes section in the staticwebapp.config.json. However it is limited. This post will demonstrate dynamic URL redirects with Azure Functions.
Azure Static Web Apps can generally build themselves with Oryx. If you need finer grained control of your build, you can with skip_app_build: true and some GitHub Actions.
The dev.to API provides a way to cross post your Docusaurus blogs to dev.to. This post describes how to do that with TypeScript, Node.js and the dev.to API.
Azure Static Web Apps doesn't support deep linking with authentication. The post login redirect parameter of post_login_redirect_uri does not support query string parameters. This post describes how to work around this limitation.
Custom font usage can introduce cumulative layout shift (or "jank") to your website. This post shows how to use fontaine to reduce this with Docusaurus sites.
This post demonstrates enriching an XML sitemap with lastmod timestamps based on git commits.
This post demonstrates reading and writing XML in Node.js using fast-xml-parser. We'll use the Docusauruses XML sitemap as an example.
Authorization in Azure Functions is impaired by an issue with Azure Static Web Apps linked to Azure Functions. Azure AD app role claims are not supplied to Azure Functions. This post will demonstrate a workaround.
