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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: ...

CSS tip: object-fit your images. To have an image that doesn’t try to stretch to its width/height the classic CSS is as follows: ...

Testing is a crucial part of the software development process. It helps to catch bugs, avoid regressions and to document the behaviour of a piece of software. Express is one of the most widespread libraries for building backend applications in JavaScript. What follows is a summar ...

Channel your inner Sindre Sohrus and ship a beautifully simple CLI app using Node. Command line apps are a neat way to package repetitive tasks. This will walk you through some tools that are useful to build CLI apps. ...

Redis and Express are tools that provide a simple and clean approach to their problem domains. What follows is a Docker/Docker Compose v2 setup. The repo is available at: https://github.com/HugoDF/express-redis-docker. The docker-compose.yml is available at: github.com/HugoDF/exp ...

The trials and tribulations of kicking off an AngularJS -> Vue.js migration AngularJS was pretty groundbreaking. It’s still impressive to this day, packed with a router, an HTTP client, a dependency injection system and a bunch of other things I haven’t necessarily had the pl ...

One of git’s main differences when compared to other version control systems is that it lets the user rewrite the history. The main way to do this is to use git rebase, usually followed by a git push --``force to overwrite history the remote with the local history. Here’s a ...

Vue.js is “The Progressive JavaScript Framework”. It takes inspiration from all prior art in the view library and frontend framework world, including AngularJS, React, Angular, Ember, Knockout and Polymer. In Vue (and Angular/AngularJS), a directive is a way to wrap f ...