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Quiz: Can you defend against XSS vulnerability?

Test your knowledge and security skills in this quiz! Can you prevent an attacker from taking control of an HTML page?

about a month ago  ·  19 minutes to read

Finder 4.0: 10 years of experience under the hood

Nette Finder allows you to search for files and folders based on criteria. The new version 4.0 has been completely rewritten using 10 years of experience using previous versions. This has resulted in a tool that is even easier and more efficient to use.

3 months ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Utils 4.0: UTF-8, Finder and named arguments

We are pleased to announce the release of Nette Utils 4.0! This update brings many new features and a shift in programming style, which we will now present in detail. At the same time, it should be fully compatible with the previous version, besides removing a few deprecated features and…

3 months ago  ·  5 minutes to read

Nette Http 3.2: change access to credentials

A new version of Nette Http 3.2 has been released, which includes a backwards incompatible change that was made for security reasons. It concerns the way to obtain a username and password when logging in via HTTP Basic Authentication, the oldest technique performed directly by the browser.

4 months ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette DI 3.1: transition release

Transition releases do not bring new features, but are intended to point out via notices anything that will work differently in the new major version and to advise you on how to update. This was the case for example with Latte 2.11 or the newly released Nette DI 3.1.

6 months ago  ·  2 minutes to read

Prefixes and Suffixes Do Not Belong in Interface Names

Using the I prefix or Interface suffix for interfaces, as well as Abstract for abstract classes, is an anti-pattern. It has no place in clean code. Differentiating interface names, in fact, obscures OOP principles, introduces noise into the code, and complicates development. Here are the reasons.

about a year ago  ·  16 minutes to read

I-prefixes disappear from interface names

In Nette, interfaces were named with the letter I at the beginning (e.g. IRequest). A couple of years ago, an extremely slow and long term process began, which quietly while maintaining backwards compatibility is getting rid of these prefixes. How exactly is this happening and why?

about a year ago  ·  5 minutes to read

Latte 3: an impressive leap

The fanfare resounds through the hall and Latte 3 comes on the scene. With a completely rewritten compiler. The new version represents the biggest evolutionary leap ever made in Latte.

about a year ago  ·  7 minutes to read

For less screaming in the code

The Nette coding style is undergoing a minor change: for class constants, the PascalCase notation is now used instead of the original SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE.

about a year ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Vite – using Nette with Vite for rapid local development

Vite is a next-generation frontend tool for loading JS and CSS files directly from sources, without the need for compilation and using modern standards.

about a year ago  ·  10 minutes to read

Dependent selectboxes elegantly in Nette and pure JS

How to create chained select boxes, where after selecting a value in one the options are dynamically updated in the other? This is an easy task in Nette and pure JavaScript. We will show a solution that is clean, reusable end secure.

about a year ago  ·  8 minutes to read

New plugin NEON Nette Support

IDE plugins bring comfort to your development and simplify your work. I enjoy developing plugins for the IntelliJ platform and would like to deliver the best products possible. Today I'm going to introduce a new plugin NEON Nette Support for PhpStorm that is lightning fast even in large projects…

about a year ago  ·  9 minutes to read

Tracy 2.9 and evolution of the iconic screen

Tracy's distinctive red screen has barely changed in the 15 years of its existence, and it's an exaggeration to say that the evolution has been in search of the ideal shade of red. In fact, there have been plenty of minor visual improvements, but not until version 2.9 has something major been…

about a year ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Http 3.1: much smarter sessions

Nette has Nette has always taken a cautious approach to sessions. It only started them automatically when users needed them. Which specifically means:

2 years ago  ·  5 minutes to read

How to pass app directory paths to services

In this very short article, I will show you 2 simple ways how to pass directory constants to services, it's very elementary thing that most of you know, but it never hurts to see it again.

2 years ago  ·  4 minutes to read

Nette Utils 3.2 with PHP 8.1 support and Type

Nette libraries always support new PHP versions far in advance. The Nette Utils 3.2 package is now ready for PHP 8.1. What has changed?

2 years ago  ·  2 minutes to read

PhpGenerator 3.6: news from PHP 8.1 and more

PhpGenerator version 3.6 brings support for all the new features of the upcoming PHP 8.1. But that's not all!

2 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read

Nette Tester 2.4.0 is out

A new smaller release is out. And since there are no posts on the blog about the patches from 2.3.1 to 2.3.5, I will address them in this post too. Let's move from the past to the present.

2 years ago  ·  5 minutes to read

News in Nette Schema 1.2

Nette Schema is the youngest addition to the Nette family. The library was originally created for the needs of Nette DI, ie to validate and normalize the input configuration files and to inform about possible errors.

2 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read

News in PhpGenerator 3.5

PhpGenerator has learned all the language features of PHP 8. Let's see how you can start using them right away.

2 years ago  ·  3 minutes to read

News in Nette Security 3.1

You'll be amazed at the horizons of this new version, and how easy it is to build web applications that don't need a session.

2 years ago  ·  6 minutes to read