🔥 Daily Digest: 5 Ways to Avoid Buffering, Secure APIs Safely, and Animate Landing Pages Like a Pro

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Hello Developers! Today’s issue is filled with performance tips, handy animations, and useful tools to enhance your projects. Let’s dive in!

• Buffering Explained: Why pipes sometimes "stick" and how to manage it.

• Reduce TTFB: Tips to speed up your site's Time to First Byte.

• API Security: Best practices to keep your data safe in transit.

• Cron Jobs in Node.js: Add scheduled tasks effortlessly to your runtime.

• Alpine.js Animations: Bring your landing page to life with smooth animations.

• Vue Mastery: A 3-step guide to mastering higher-order components.

• Code Snippet of the Day: A simple 2-step guide to retrieving browser cookie values in JavaScript.

• Toolbox Picks: 4 of the best new tools you need to try.

• Why pipes sometimes get "stuck" - buffering

• How to reduce TTFB (Time to First Byte)

• API Security Best Practices: Protecting Your Data in Transit

• How to add cron jobs on node-js runtime

• Animate Your Landing Page with Alpine.js

• 3-Step Guide to Mastering Higher-Order Components in Vue

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2-Step Guide to Retrieving a Browser Cookie Value in JavaScript

Step 1: Implement the One-Liner Function

Use this function to get the value of a specific cookie:

const getCookieValue = name => `; ${document.cookie}`.split(`; ${name}=`).pop().split(';').shift();

Step 2: Retrieve the Cookie Value

To access it, call the function with the name of the cookie:

console.log(getCookieValue('session_id')); // Outputs the value of 'session_id' cookie

Use Cases

• Access User Preferences: Retrieve user settings stored in cookies for customizing experiences.

• Session Management: Access session IDs or tokens to maintain user sessions.

• Authentication: Fetch authentication tokens for secured API calls.

More code snippets here →

• color-mode - Dark and Light mode with auto detection made easy with Nuxt 🌗

• drawio-desktop - diagramming and whiteboarding desktop app based on Electron that wraps the core draw.io editor.

• dashy - A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!

• wiki - A modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app built on NodeJS.

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