Code with Hugo

One of the greatest and worst things with git is that you can rewrite the history. Here’s a sneaky way of abusing that, I can’t think of a legitimate reason to do this. As with anything, thanks StackOverflow for all the options I can pick from 👍. ...

Redirecting a whole domain using Cloudflare can be useful but isn’t documented anywhere, here’s how to do it. ...

An example consuming a GraphQL API from Python using gql. Full code example at HugoDF/python-graphql-client-example. ...

A simple Hugo blog setup The story of getting codewithhugo.com up and running. The tl;dr is the following: I always rave about my blog setup, it’s simple, fast and just works I used Hugo, “The world’s fastest framework for building websites”, a static site generator I used a the ...

There’s some nice use-cases for snapshot tests outside of the well-travelled React/Vue UI component ones. In other words, although React and Vue testing with snapshots is pretty well documented, that’s not the only place they’re useful. As a rule of thumb, you c ...

Easily deploying to multiple environments in a simple manner using GitHub, CircleCI and Heroku. Continuous Integration is awesome, but sometimes you need a buffer between auto-deploying things on merge and the production release. To do that with CircleCI requires some git branch- ...

As part of adding integration tests to an app on CircleCI I ran into the following issues: redis-cli’s API has changed from Redis CLI versions 2 to 3 to 4 ie. this works in v4 redis-cli -u ${REDIS_URL} but doesn’t in v2 the “only way” to install redis-cli is thr ...

There always comes a point in a web application’s life where an operation is best served in the background, this is where queues come in. There are a few queuing solutions in Node. None of them are ridiculously dominant, eg. Kue, RSMQ, Bee Queue, bull. The issue with Kue, R ...

When using docker-compose, it’s good practice to make anything that relies on Postgres wait for it to be up before launching. This avoids connection issues inside the app. This post walks through how to deliver this functionality both as a CLI and a module that works both as a Co ...

Here is the implementation for a function that takes a Promise-based fetch function (eg. using axios) and a function that decides if a response has been successful (from a polling perspective) and polls the fetch function until the isSuccess function returns true: ...