
Open Source Guidelines | Widen Engineering
Projects should not depend on internal Widen infrastructure. Making something that interacts with our public APIs and sites is fine, but a project that launches EC2 instances in our cloud is not.
The Story of Widen's Frontend Component Library
Widen has always strived to create functional and useful user interfaces to allow content strategists, marketers, and others to manage their digital content. We have always kept a close eye on …
Sometimes, a Billion Laughs Aren't so Funny - Widen
Widen, like many companies, makes heavy use of open-source technology, and we’ve made it a part of our mission to give back to this community that we benefit so much from. In light of this, in this post …
The Future of Web Development - React, Falcor, and ES6 - Widen
In fact, some of Widen’s emerging software products will make use of all of the new technologies discussed in this article. Next, I’ll document each notable new tool.
The Future of Web Development (Part 2): Full ... - engineering.widen.com
While Widen/fullstack-react was designed to be simple to allow us to focus on the concepts needed to create and test a futuristic full-stack JavaScript web application, there are certainly areas where we …
Tomcat Hates Encoded Slashes | Widen Engineering
So, our URI of “/proxy/http%3A%2F%2Fwiden.com%2Fcareers” is being expanded to “/proxy/http%3A//widen.com/careers” before it is routed to a matching endpoint handler. Of course, …
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As part of Widen's commitment to contributing back to the open-source community, we have sponsored work to improve the CSS variables implementation in WebKit. Read on to learn more about CSS …
Automating Code Transformation With jscodeshift - Widen
In this article, I’ll discuss a third approach, which uses a tool called jscodeshift to automate code transformation to speed up refactoring so you can take advantage of new libraries or updates without …
Dagster + Meltano: A complete open-source ELT solution for the
When we, the Widen Data Team, began looking to revamp our ELT platform we chose Dagster and Meltano. Here's why.
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On August 10, 2017, Widen held its inaugural Maker Day team building exercise for the Development team to partake in an adventure building physical hardware components for a day.