All articles by Marco Louro

Last month I had some time to take a closer look at how our website was performing from a pure speed perspective. It’s a pretty simple site, a bit less than 400kb total and very different from that of most …

Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is no longer static, CSS pre-processors are the norm, and JavaScript modules such as Require, Browserify or even coffeescript are also …

We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool, Ginger. In doing so, we built a new JavaScript library to communicate with our django-rest-framework powered API(s). Inspired by hood.ie but aimed at custom API back-ends, …

With things like LESS and RequireJS, we’re starting to use Node.js’s npm (think pip for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects use …

If you’ve never heard of Selenium, put simply, it’s a tool that allows you to create tests that are run in the browser and interact with your UI in the same way as if you were manually testing your website …

Etherpad is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). In case you missed it, Etherpad was acquired by Google and after a community uproar decided to release their code …