Web Development

The landscape of web development in 2025 continues to demand more from our APIs: strict type safety, predictable performance, and the ability for clients to request exactly what they need. While REST remains a staple, GraphQL has solidified its place as the go-to solution for complex, data-driven frontends.

It is October 2025, and the Node.js ecosystem looks vastly different than it did just a few years ago. While we still see the lingering dominance of legacy frameworks in maintenance projects, the “New Wave” of web frameworks has firmly established itself as the standard for greenfield development.

Mastering PDF Generation in PHP: A Comprehensive Guide to Libraries and Techniques # If you have been working in web development for any significant amount of time, you have likely faced the “PDF requirement.” Whether it is generating dynamic invoices, downloadable reports, or shipping labels, creating PDFs programmatically remains a staple requirement for enterprise applications.

Introduction # In the modern landscape of distributed systems, the way your services talk to each other defines your architecture’s throughput and reliability. For years, REST (over HTTP/1.1 with JSON) was the default standard. It’s human-readable, ubiquitous, and easy to debug. However, as we navigate through the high-concurrency demands of 2025, the overhead of text-based protocols has become a tangible bottleneck for internal microservice communication.

Introduction # In the ecosystem of modern backend development, the combination of Go (Golang) and MongoDB remains a powerhouse. Go’s concurrency model pairs exceptionally well with MongoDB’s asynchronous, document-oriented nature. As we settle into 2025, the official MongoDB Go Driver has matured significantly, offering robust support for generic types, improved connection pooling, and seamless BSON serialization.

In the landscape of modern web development in 2025, user expectations for interactivity are non-negotiable. Whether it’s a financial trading dashboard, a collaborative document editor, or a live gaming server, real-time communication is the backbone of user engagement.

Let’s be honest: handling forms in React has historically been… tedious.

Introduction # In the landscape of modern web development, handling user credentials directly is becoming increasingly rare—and for good reason. Storing passwords comes with a massive liability. Enter OAuth 2.0, the industry-standard protocol for authorization.

Introduction # File uploads are a ubiquitous requirement for modern web applications, yet they remain one of the most significant attack vectors and performance bottlenecks in backend development. If you handle uploads incorrectly, you risk crashing your Node.js event loop with memory spikes or, worse, opening the door to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via malicious file payloads.

For years, the standard PHP request-response lifecycle (the “share-nothing” architecture) has served us well. However, as modern web applications demand instantaneous feedback—think live notifications, collaborative editing, and chat apps—the traditional HTTP model struggles.