It's 2020. You want to build a node.js app, and you've heard great things about TypeScript. Let this post act as your guide through the forest of compilers and specifications as you navigate to the promised land: a strongly-typed node.js codebase.
Writing code snippets in Hugo is simple and elegant, using a combination of markdown code fences and Hugo's support for syntax highlighting. Recently I've been looking to add a button to automatically copy a code snippet to the clipboard, and I've documented my solution in this post.
Running a node.js app in a low-memory environment requires some additional work to ensure that the v8 garbage collector is aware of the memory ceiling. This post outlines an approach to achieve this.
So, you've created a super-awesome npm module, and you want to share it with the world. How do you create a demo page?
A workflow for using Docker to separate your development environment for each project.
In this article, I'm going to show you how you can replicate npm private hosting using GitHub or Bitbucket, and access these modules from your deployment server and/or Heroku.
A 'short' or 'hash' ID is a seemingly random sets of characters, popularised by services which need unique but readable (and typeable) URLs.
It's important in this era of web application development to have a strong toolset at your disposal. Growing complexity with 'fat' client apps can lead to a maintenance nightmare if not properly planned and thought out.
Some thoughts on validating data according to a Mongoose Schema.
The last week has been an intense period of training. I've taken up the offer of a project to be built using AngularJS, and so my head has been down in tutorials, books and online docs. Here are some of the resources I found useful.
During my time at Mubaloo I was a vocal supporter of Backbone.js. But recently there has been lots of noise around AngularJS.