Writing a browser extension

Posted on 2025-02-16 in Programmation • Tagged with Web

I recently wrote a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium based browsers for my Legadilo (RSS feeds aggregator and articles saver) project. The goal is to make it easier and faster to save an article or to subscribe to a feed directly on a web page without forcing you to …


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Weird test behavior in my Django project test suite after an IntegrityError

Posted on 2024-12-01 in Programmation • Tagged with Python, Web, Django

Recently I encountered a very weird behavior in my Django project test suite. I created a view that caught an IntegrityError from the database (caused by duplicates in a unique index). When this error occurs, I want to respond with a 409 - CONFLICT status code and an error message.

TL …


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Django async

Posted on 2023-12-10 in Programmation • Tagged with Web, Django, Python

Now that Django is fully async (views, middleware and ORM), I though it was a good time to test how it behaves when run asynchronously. I’ll try to keep this article concise with only relevant data and resources. Code can be seen in a sample project so you can …


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Writing RSS reading app with various frontend frameworks

Posted on 2023-09-09 in Programmation • Tagged with Web, Javascript, Typescript, React, Angular, Svelte, Vue

During the summer, I decided to test a few frontend framework to see what’s going on in this space and form a better opinions over alternatives to React. I tested Svelte because after hearing from it I felt attracted to it, Vue because it is popular, React to have …


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Make JS code communicate with a ServiceWorker

Posted on 2020-08-18 in Programmation • Tagged with JavaScript, Web, ServiceWorker

If you need to send data from your JS code to your ServiceWorker, you can do it like this:

navigator.serviceWorker.register("./sw.js").then(registration => {
    registration.active.postMessage("Some message");
});

You can then rely on this code in the ServiceWorker to read the message:

self.addEventListener("message", event => {
    console …

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Should you build a SPA?

Posted on 2020-06-15 in Programmation • Tagged with JavaScript, Web, Django

This article is an update to a previous article why you want to build a SPA which I think was laking some nuance and precision. Reading this article is not required to read this one. I'm writing this update because SPAs are very popular and I recently though more about …


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Why you probably want to make a SPA

Posted on 2020-01-12 in Programmation • Tagged with JavaScript, Web, Django

Important

I created an updated version of this article in should you build a SPA which provides a more complete and balanced view on this subject. Please read it instead of this current article.

I am currently working professionally on a website that is not a SPA. I'd like to …


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Some tips for django

Posted on 2018-05-21 in Trucs et astuces • Tagged with Python, Web, Django


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