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is an application layer protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser. [Wikipedia]

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

 is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript. [Wikipedia]

HyperText Markup Language

is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. [Wikipedia]

Domain Name System

is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript. [Wikipedia]

Cascading Style Sheets

is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines. SEO targets unpaid traffic (known as "natural" or "organic" results) rather than direct traffic or paid traffic. [Wikipedia]

Search engine optimization

is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git, plus its own features. [Wikipedia]

GitHub

is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language. [Wikipedia]

Node Package Manager

is a new package manager that replaces the npm client's or other package managers' existing workflow while staying compatible with the npm registry.

yarn

is a mechanism that allows restricted resources on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the first resource was served. [Wikipedia]

Cross-origin resource sharing

is an online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. [Wikipedia]

Open Web Application Security Project

is a methodology, that helps you to achieve reusable components and code sharing in the front-end with a schema to define CSS classes.

Block Element Modifier

is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). SassScript is the scripting language itself. [Wikipedia]

Sass

is a code formatter with strong opinions. Install Prettier in your editor if you never want to bother about code formatting again. It will take care of it for you.

Prettier

is a static code analysis tool for identifying problematic patterns found in JavaScript code. It was created by Nicholas C. Zakas in 2013. Rules in ESLint are configurable, and customized rules can be defined and loaded. ESLint covers both code quality and coding style issues. [Wikipedia]

ESLint

is an open-source JavaScript module bundler. It is made primarily for JavaScript, but it can transform front-end assets such as HTML, CSS, and images if the corresponding loaders are included. [Wikipedia]

webpack

is an open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components. It is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies. [Wikipedia]

React.js

is an open-source JavaScript library for managing application state. It is most commonly used with libraries such as React or Angular for building user interfaces. [Wikipedia]

Redux

a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. It provides one core type, the Observable, satellite types (Observer, Schedulers, Subjects) and operators inspired by Array#extras (map, filter, reduce, every, etc) to allow handling asynchronous events as collections.

RxJS

NgRx Store provides reactive state management for Angular apps inspired by Redux. Unify the events in your application and derive state using RxJS.

NgRx

is a state management pattern + library for Vue.js applications. It serves as a centralized store for all the components in an application, with rules ensuring that the state can only be mutated in a predictable fashion.

Vuex

is a JavaScript testing framework maintained by Facebook, Inc. designed and built by Christoph Nakazawa with a focus on simplicity and support for large web applications. It works with projects using Babel, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Angular, Vue.js and Svelte. Jest does not require a lot of configuration for first time users of a testing framework. [Wikipedia]

Jest

is a web automation test automation solution based on JavaScript. It allows teams to develop automated web test scripts. This solution intends to make it possible for frontend developers and test automation engineers to create online tests in JavaScript, which has become the de-facto web language for web test automation.

Cypress

is a lightweight testing solution for React components. It adds lightweight utility functions to react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, encouraging improved testing methods.

React Testing Library

is a way instead of rendering web pages in the browser, the process of rendering web pages on a server and sending them to the browser (client-side).

Server-side rendering

is an open-source React front-end development web framework created by Vercel that enables functionality such as server-side rendering and generating static websites for React based web applications. [Wikipedia]

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