Written by Evert Pot
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on May. 29, 2021
I’m a few days late, but as of May 25, 2021 I’ve had this blog for 15 years! I guess it also makes this my longest running project. The blog went through quite a few iterations and platforms, but the current Github Pages iteration is about 8 years old already. This is how it looked between 2006 and…
Written by Evert Pot
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on May. 10, 2021
Cookies When designing web applications, (especially the traditional HTML kind), you will at one point have to figure out how to log a user in and keep them logged in between requests. The core mechanism we use for this are cookies. Cookies are small strings sent by a server to a client. After a cl…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Apr. 12, 2021
We just released version 7 of Ketting. Ketting is a generic HATEOAS client for Javascript. A whole bunch of features have been added since September. We’ve been testing Ketting 7 in beta since January, so I’m excited to get this out the door. I’ve been working on this project since 2016. Normally,…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Feb. 1, 2021
Ketting is the generic REST client for Javascript. Version 7 is currently in beta, and will have support for Deprecation and Sunset headers as well as deprecated links. Deprecating Endpoints/Resources There’s currently work done on a new internet standard: draft-cedik-deprecation-header, a.k.a.: “T…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Nov. 12, 2020
One of the hot features that came with HTTP/2 was PUSH frames. The main idea is that if the server can predict what requests a client might want to make, the server can preemptively send request/response pairs to the client and warm its cache. This is a feature I’ve been very interested in for a lo…
Written by Evert Pot
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on Sep. 9, 2020
We just released Ketting 6. This is the accumulation of about a year of learning on how to better integrate REST APIs with frontend frameworks, in particular React. It’s packed with new features such as local state management, new caching strategies, (client-side) middleware support and change even…