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The config npm package is great (npmjs.com/package/config), but it encourages confusing and non-12-factor-app-compliant patterns. We’ll look at some of the patterns it encourages and why they’ll bring you struggles down the road as well a simple, single-file, no-dependency way to ...

A bash scripting cheat sheet for developers who just want to get by. Writing setup, CI and deployment flows means a bit of the old bash scripting. Despite my deep interest in the intricacies of Bash (/sarcasm), I’ve kept hitting up Google and StackOverflow for solutions t ...

There are occasions when running a Python/Ruby/PHP shell script from Node.js is necessary. This post looks at best practices around leveraging child_process.spawn to encapsulate this call in Node.js/JavaScript. The goal here is to have an interoperability layer between Node.js an ...

A look at the history, patterns and gotchas of asynchronous operations in JavaScript. We’ll go through the pros and cons of callbacks, Promises and async/await. Present some pitfalls to bear in mind as well as introducing how you would deal with certain situations. Live-cod ...

The Dokku mongo plugin provides a mongo:connect command, which opens a tunnelled connection to you MongoDB instance on Dokku. This is how you can connect to your database using the tool of your choice, the examples will be using Robo3T. Table of Contents: ...

DataTypes are core to the Sequelize 4 library. This is a practical and complete guide to make up for the sparse Sequelize official documentation on the subject. First of all, DataTypes contains both the types and generators for default values: eg. NOW, UUIDV1 and UUIDV4 are speci ...

How to avoid TypeError: Cannot read property ___ of undefined using Array.filter(Boolean) tl;dr: Array.filter(Boolean) filters out falsy values (null, undefined, 0, false, '') and avoids Cannot read property of undefined errors. Table of contents: ...

Detecting Array vs Object in JavaScript with examples tl;dr To detect if something is an Array in JavaScript, use Array.isArray(somethingObjectToCheck). This post is a quarter useful, quarter history lesson, half quirky JavaScript exploration. Table of contents: ...

tl;dr: here are the tools used to power, build and publish codewithhugo.com: Dropbox Paper because it syncs desktop/mobile and outputs to markdown Unsplash for cover images Edited Markdown + images → Hugo static site generator Casper 2 (https://ghost.org default theme) for Hugo ...

If you want to ship, use the tools you know. — A lot of people Let’s apply that principle: I’m building Post Frequency/Accountable Blogging, I’m familiar with Vue and Node-based backends. Netlify makes frontend deployments trivial and I’ve settled on Dokku for ...