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Manipulating the browser history [HTML5]

Since the introduction of HTML5 it’s been possible to manage the browser history using the history and history.pushState API. It allows us to change the URL in the browser without the page refreshing. There are a lot of frameworks that already support the history and pushState API such as Backbone.js, Ember.js and Angular.js.

In this post, we’ll be looking at using the Browser push state without resorting to any framework. To do this we first need to have a way to check if the user has access to the history API.

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Custom code editor in Django admin

Example in this post will demonstrate how to add CodeMirror, a text editor implemented in Javascript, to the Django Textarea form widget by extending the class django.forms.Textarea. Modified widget will be used as an example in Django Admin, but it can be easily ported to any Django form. CodeMirror editor implemented below is set to a HTML/Javascript mode. To support other languages/modes check the CodeMirror documentation.

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Tunneling with Ngrok

One of my best finds of the 2014 was Ngrok, service providing secure tunneling from your local machine to the web. It allows you to expose your locally running server to on-line in just a seconds, moreover you are able to access it on http and https. Each developer can find multiple use-cases for this kind of service.

It's multi-platform, stable, simple to use and free of charge service. Of course if you need, you can buy a license but you don't need to.

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