Code with Hugo

The why and how of enterprise-style Node.js application. A setup that’s easy to test and extend using battle-hardened technologies like Express.js, Postgres and Docker Compose to run locally. Dive into the code on GitHub directly: github.com/HugoDF/express-postgres-starter. ...

Despite the JavaScript Date warts, it’s straightforward to add days to a date in JavaScript. While it would be very easy to reach for moment.js or another date manipulation library (date-fns, luxon, dayjs) to do something as simple as adding days to a Date in JavaScript, wr ...

Static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, Gatsby or other JAMstack alternative are a great option to run your blog on. One of the earliest and possibly most painful issues you will come across is “How do I schedule content to publish for later?”. In the traditional database ...

This post goes through how to reduce the amount of static assets served through Netlify by leveraging a CDN (Content Delivery Network) like Cloudflare. This will reduce your Netlify bandwidth usage for cacheable assets. It will also mean that you’re following industry-accepted be ...

A solution to serve your Dockerized application on Docker Compose with TLS/SSL locally by leveraging a HTTPS reverse-proxy and mkcert. Examples with Caddy and nginx are at: github.com/HugoDF/docker-compose-local-https Table of contents: ...

Settling on a Netlify + Dokku on DigitalOcean (for US) or Hetzner Cloud (for EU) deployment stack for JavaScript and Node. Over the last few years I’ve never quite settled on a goto deployment strategy for my apps and projects. Technology-wise it has settled towards Vue or stat ...

This post goes through how to use Object.defineProperty to mock how constructors create methods, ie. non-enumerable properties that are functions. The gist of Object.defineProperty use with a function value boils down to: const obj = {} Object.defineProperty(obj, 'yes', { ...

When working with git a selection of GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket and rebase-trigger-happy colleagues/collaborators, it’s a rite of passage to see a message like the following: Pushing to [email protected]:some-project/some-repo.git To [email protected]:some-project/some-repo.git ! [rejec ...

When sending requests from client-side JavaScript, by default cookies are not passed. By default, fetch won’t send or receive any cookies from the server, resulting in unauthenticated requests https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch Two Java ...

When asked to handle data in a request body, developers who have used Express (the “Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js”) before, reach for the body-parser library. The same functionality can be achieved using express.json(). A middleware for parsing JSON re ...