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
web
A collection of 12 issues
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 ...
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.
Optional values in EJS templates
Handling optional variables in an EJS template.
Too Many Headers
Also known as "things I've learned today"... I've been using Insomnia the last couple of days to test a web API. Insomnia's a great client - it's got lots of features to make life easier. You can set arbitrary headers to whatever value you want, you can import cURL commands,
Vue and PWA = awesome
I just had to take a minute to say - Vue’s automatic PWA support is amazing. Enable it with the Vue CLI and it Just Works. Okay, you have to supply your own icons and stuff, but that's pretty reasonable I think. ;-)
GraphQL - first steps
I was following Flavio Copes' tutorial 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 picked up enough GraphQL
Parameter handling for Node.js logging with Winston
Making Winston log statements act like console.log()