Apr
12
Using AlpineJS to make things pretty
I had a revelation the other day. In the beginning…I had this idea that to make your UI pretty
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Apr
09
Hapi: using pre-route functions for fun and profit
I started to think - Express has middleware, I wonder what Hapi has? There’s bound to be something so I can ...
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Apr
05
7 tools I use every day - Home Edition
Sharing some of the less common tools ones I use.
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Apr
03
Checking if a user owns a domain
The technique we’re using is the one used by Google, Microsoft and others to verify that you've got some authority over a domain.
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Apr
01
7 Tools I Use Every Day at Work
Silver Searcher (ag for short) is a fantastically fast searcher, much faster than grep. It comes with ...
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Mar
21
How I made my tests faster
Today I’ve been reminded of the importance of measuring first when debugging, rather than making assumptions.
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Mar
16
Using templates and validation in Hapi
In this post we’ll add template rendering (with Vision) and input validation (with Joi) into our application from the previous set of posts.
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Mar
12
Hapi - using routes from external files
[Last time we left it], the server only had a single route and was all in one file. That’s fine to start with but it’s not exactly scalable. Let’s add some routes from external files.
3 min read
Mar
11
Using Typescript with hapi
I've been using hapi lately, and decided to start using Typescript at the same time. When I looked though there didn't seem to be a lot out there on using them both together. Here's what I learned.
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Mar
08
Using your domain
So you’ve read part 1, and you’ve bought yourself a domain. Now you need to actually do something with it.
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