Exploring the WebAuthn API; a bare-bones JS app

Posted on by David Vassallo

I had no idea the WebAuthn API even existed until I came across this article by @herrjemand. In that article, the author used WebAuthn to automatically generate and save passwords in the Chrome credential manager. What more can this browser API do? How would you use it? What is WebAuthn - and why the buzz? We know passwords are a necessary evil. Credential managers are a hassle to setup and use, passwords are re-used across sites and applications - and we often choose weak or easily-guessed passwords. WebAuthn is oft touted as a "password killer". We've seen … Continue reading Exploring the WebAuthn API; a bare-bones JS app

Part 2 – Inspired by Gatsby.js : Rolling your own GraphQL powered WordPress API (this time with Spring Boot)

Posted on by David Vassallo

In the first part of this two-article series, we explored rolling your own WordPress GraphQL adapter, inspired by the work done by GatsbyJS, written in Javascript and hosted on GraphCool. In this article, we'll build the same thing, this time using Java. Spring Boot and GraphQL Java Kickstart make this quite easy. Pre-requisites For anyone … Continue reading Part 2 – Inspired by Gatsby.js : Rolling your own GraphQL powered WordPress API (this time with Spring Boot)