Making a subset of Font Awesome
Font Awesome is, well, awesome - but there's no getting away from the fact that if you only want a few of the icons then it's not a lightweight package.
Topic
javascript
A collection of 11 issues
Things I wish I knew about… JavaScript modules
I have to confess it took me a while to get my head around JavaScript modules.
This is at least partly because there are two different popular module systems,
CommonJS [http://www.commonjs.org/] and ECMAScript 2015
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript] (usually shortened to ES2015).
The ECMAScript 2015
JavaScript pattern - the “singleton file”
The other day I came across the solution to a number of problems I’d had in the
past.
I imagine it’s probably obvious to anyone who’s been doing JavaScript for a
while, but since it took a while to dawn on me I thought I’d try
Live reload in Hapi
Something I’ve been meaning to address for a while is the lack of a livereload
[https://github.com/livereload/livereload-js] plugin for Hapi
[https://hapi.dev/]. Template changes are visible on manual reload if you turn
off caching, but I’ve become used to automatic reloading when developing with
Things I wish I knew about… JavaScript functions
Especially coming from a C/Python/Elixir background, there were some things about JavaScript functions that I really didn’t get to start with.
Some testing with Axios
Recently I’ve been working on integrating with a subscription/payment gateway.
(It hasn’t been straightforward, but that’s a whole other post…)
I wanted to be able to test my web-hook code without repeatedly triggering
events from the gateway. I stored the incoming events in JSON format, which
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 ...
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.
How I made my tests faster
Today I’ve been reminded of the importance of measuring first when debugging, rather than making assumptions.
GraphQL - first steps
I was following Flavio Copes' tutorial
[https://flaviocopes.com/graphql-node-express/] on creating a basic GraphQL
server in Express the other day. The tutorial was good, but I realised at the
end that it didn't give you an example of a query to actually see the resolvers
in action.
Luckily I've