Topic

programming

A collection of 14 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.

How to force TypeScript's compiler to rebuild your files

I’ve noticed when using tsc in watch mode that sometimes - especially if a file has been renamed - it doesn’t realise the file needs recompiling. This state persists across reboots, restarting the watcher, all the usual stuff. The last time I hit this was when I needed

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Using Vision’s global contexts for auth data

A simple way to identify if your user is logged in.