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  1. 01Building a Blog with Agility Headless CMSCreate a free Agility CMS account, define a blog content model, publish posts, and fetch them into your JavaScript app using your guid and API key.
  2. 02Web Component LibrariesA roundup of pre-built Web Component libraries such as Shoelace, Material, Vaadin, Wired, Elix and Microsoft FAST that work in any framework or plain HTML.
  3. 03Authorization and Authentication in ConceptHow sign up and login work on the server, why passwords get hashed with bcrypt, and how sessions compare to JSON Web Tokens for authorizing user actions.
  4. 04Creating a Gatsby or NextJS Markdown BlogSpin up a Markdown blog with merced-spinup templates for NextJS or Gatsby, with a walkthrough of the post template, page template, main page and scripts.
  5. 056 JS Object Types You May Not Have UsedCode examples for six lesser-used JavaScript features: Map, Set, Symbol, generator functions, the Reflect API and Proxy objects, with notes on when each helps.
  6. 06Tutorial - Writing Your First GraphQL APIBuild a first GraphQL API step by step: project structure, sample data, typeDefs, queries and mutations, testing, then calling it from the frontend with fetch.