Tooling

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 ...

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 ...

GraphQL is a great alternative to REST (or other HTTP API designs). This is an quick introduction to the core concepts around consuming a GraphQL API. To see some examples consuming a GraphQL API: In Python, see Python GraphQL client requests example using gql In JavaScript (bro ...

Parcel allows us to bundle frontend applications with no configuration and GitHub pages affords us a way to deploy them for free. Here’s how to use these two tools together to deploy a JavaScript application. Full example of a repo deployed like this: https://github.com/Hug ...

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 ...