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Here’s how I get productive for JavaScript/Node on Mac OS. ...

Enhancing generators for ES6 in the Sequelize CLI This is the story of my discovery of ES6-class style model definitions with Sequelize (see Using ES6 classes for Sequelize 4 models). The realisation that the current Sequelize CLI model generator didn’t support it (as is expected since it’s not the most common way of doing it). Finally, the impetus to just implement it myself. In other words, I started using a style of Sequelize models that the Sequelize CLI didn’t support. ...

Last Monday (22 October 2018) GitHub was going 💥, and scheduled content on Code with Hugo wasn’t going live. For context, the blog’s setup is documented in “Switching the lights on: Hugo vs Hugo config files”. tl;dr (as is relevant to this post) Cloudflare DNS + CDN + proxying + HTTPS GitHub Pages Hugo as a static site generator CircleCI to deploy the site daily + on push (🤷‍♀️wasn’t in the post but that’s how I do it) ...

Leave the Express comfort zone to expand how you think about Node application architecture. tl;dr using a function composition model for building HTTP servers is awesome Functions as a Service are great but have some drawbacks micro has a similar, simple API to FaaS but doesn’t have a compilation step micro’s minimalism affects how you solve problems Functions as a composition model for JavaScript Functions as a Service pain points ...

Going from 0 to small. A developer’s journey starting a technical blog from scratch. ...

Node has been implementing more and more ES6+ (ESNext) features natively. One of the features that is taking the longest to implement is modules. The reason for this is that Node and npm run on what is called CommonJS, with which you use require('module-name') to import from other modules and use the module.exports object to expose entities from a module. Node’s CommonJS was actually one of the first widely adopted module systems in JavaScript. ...

ObservableHQ is a platform being built by Mike Bostock (creator of the D3 visualisation library), Jeremy Ashkenas (“Made CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Underscore and other ragbag” from his Twitter bio) and Tom MacWright (creator of the big presentation framework, simple-statistics and documentation.js as well as D3 contributor amongst other things). Observable is not just another JavaScript sandbox. It introduces the notebook paradigm to JavaScript projects, those of you familiar with Jupyter notebooks, this is the equivalent with JavaScript instead of Python. ...

Settling on a Netlify + Dokku on DigitalOcean 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 static site generators for the frontend with Node on the backend, whether that’s for API servers or handling rendering through handlebars. What I’ve finally settled on is Netlify + Dokku on DigitalOcean. ...

There’s nothing as flashy and useful for JavaScript interviews than recursion. If you just want to be impressive with recursion in JavaScript, here are some semi real-world (technical test type) examples. The short definition of a recursive solution to a problem (in computer science) is: don’t use iteration. This usually means a function has to call itself with a smaller instance of the same problem until it hits a trivial case (usually defined in the problem). ...

Writing multiple components in one file is a pattern from React where some files contain multiple components. Some of those components are “private” to the file/exported component since no other component needs to consume them. ...