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An overview of Token Based Authentication for single page applications: JWTs, session cookies, and angularjs authentication strategies

Source: Token Based Authentication for Single Page Apps (SPAs) – Stormpath User Identity API

See also: http://madhatted.com/2014/6/17/authentication-for-single-page-apps

http://www.jamesward.com/2013/05/13/securing-single-page-apps-and-rest-services

http://brewhouse.io/blog/2014/12/09/authentication-made-simple-in-single-page-angularjs-applications.html (Angular)

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/67343/secure-rest-api-and-single-page-app-by-using-external-oauth-2-authorization-code

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/194859/security-in-authentication-in-single-page-apps

D3 is a JavaScript library for visualizing data with HTML, SVG, and CSS.

Source: D3.js – Data-Driven Documents

I recently delivered a talk at FFConf in Brighton, called “You should use <insert library / framework here>, it’s the bestestest!”. I wanted to do a write-up of the presentation’s content here, hopefully so it can start a broader conversation that I think we need to have, mainly around the cost of modern frameworks on mobile devices.

Source: Aerotwist – The Cost of Frameworks

If you’re a front end developer or a designer who likes to code, CSS-based layouts are at the very core of your work. Designer slash developer Noah Stokes scrutinizes the CSS position property to show how you can use it to create standards-compliant, table-free CSS layouts. Test or refresh your knowledge of static, relative, absolute, fixed, and inherited positioning, and how they work together to create any web layout the mind can conceive.

Source: CSS Positioning 101 · An A List Apart Article

Adobe Web Platform Team.

60fps on the mobile web — Flipboard Engineering.

Visual Studio for Game Development: New Partnerships with Unity, Unreal Engine and Cocos2d – Somasegar’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Art by Oskar Stålberg.

Some amazing stuff here – his Brick Block, other cool Unity web stuff.  It makes a compelling case for playing with Unity!

Mozilla puts a development environment into the browser with WebIDE | Ars Technica.

7 web design mistakes every beginner makes | Web design | Creative Bloq.