All-in on SSL on Modulus
I am hosting my node.js + Express app https://morningfa.me on Modulus and without question everything must go through https. This is the full picture of how I set it up.
Redirecting to HTTPS
In the admin panel I activated Modulus' redirection feature so that any http requests will be redirected.
Since . . .
My CSS-Autoprefixer Settings for IE9 and Up
Chances are, you use the border-box default, too:
*, *:before, *:after {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Today I stumbled upon the fact that many still kinda recent browser versions need prefixing for that. What I want is:
*, *:before, *:after {
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
. . .Can't wait for the io.js release? Try the nightly!
The first beta of io.js is about to be released in a couple of hours. If you can't wait, though, here is how you can take your existing node.js project and try it out on the io.js nightly.
Update: The release is out. You may now also use https://iojs.org/dist/latest/ in step 1 and then continue the same way.
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"Precomposing" a SPA may become the Holy Grail to SEO
The state of the art of making SPAs crawlable is to render HTML snapshots on the server and serve them to crawlers. Being able to render those snapshots, however, adds development or service costs which are only tolerated because SEO is important and there is no better solution, yet.
As I found out, this changed when the Googlebot . . .