Tag: Nodejs
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Express.js and AWS Lambda serverless love story
Posted on March 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Slobodan Stojanović article about creating serverless applications in Express.js. Express apps are easy to build, it is de facto the most popular Node.js framework.
Tags javascript nodejs app-development
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Elegant patterns in modern JavaScript RORO
Posted on March 2, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Bill Sourour from DevMastery.com wrote this article to introduce the pattern he has been using. He claims he did not invent it and came across it in other people's code and eventually adopted it himself. The pattern is Receive an object, return an object (RORO).
Tags javascript programming nodejs
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Brutal lifecycle of JavaScript UI frameworks
Posted on January 12, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Ian Allen -- a developer on the Internal Tools team at Stack Overflow -- wrote this piece on JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries and how work in cycles. Every six months or so, a new one pops up, claiming that it has revolutionized UI development. This articles draws some interesting conclusions. You may or may not agree with it.
Tags javascript nodejs programming
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3 features of ES7 to use right now
Posted on January 9, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Derick Bailey wrote a blog post about some interesting features in JavaScript ES7 which you can use right now. It seems everything is changing in JavaScript – even the naming of releases has changed, with years marking the language version.
Tags nodejs javascript
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Introduction to WebAssembly - why should we care?
Posted on December 26, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Gabriele Tomassetti article about WebAssembly, or wasm, which is a low-level bytecode format for in-browser client-side scripting. In practical terms, WebAssembly is implemented by browsers' developers on the back of the existing JavaScript engine.
Tags programming javascript nodejs
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What is WebAssembly?
Posted on December 23, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Eric Elliott article about WebAssembly. WebAssembly gives us access to a set of low level building blocks that we can use to construct just about anything you can imagine.
Tags programming javascript nodejs
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Managing AWS Lambda function concurrency
Posted on December 17, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Chris Munns long article diving straight to the point of AWS Lambda concurrency. In AWS Lambda, which is the core of the serverless platform at AWS, the unit of scale is a concurrent execution. This refers to the number of executions of your function code that are happening at any given time.
Tags serverless nodejs aws
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TypeScript 2.4 weak type detection
Posted on December 10, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Marius Schulz short into into TypesScript weak type detection with code examples. A type is considered weak if all of its properties are optional. More specifically, a weak type defines one or more optional properties, no required properties, and no index signatures.
Tags nodejs javascript
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Getting started with Webpack - dev server
Posted on October 29, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Abraham Williams sweet post about moving fast when developing. Developers want to move fast 🚀 🚀 🚀. Manually triggering a rebuild of your source code after ever little change is slow and annoying.
Tags javascript programming nodejs
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Tricky JavaScript interview question asked by top tech companies
Posted on October 28, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Daniel Borowski take on a tricky Javascript question often asked by top tech companies like Google or Amazon. It is a short explanation, along with some solutions, of a popular JavaScript question that tends to get asked in developer interviews.
Tags javascript nodejs programming
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Advanced Vue.js concepts - mixins, fillters etc
Posted on October 28, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Ogundipe Samuel detailed blog post about advanced techniques using Vue. Vue.js is arguably one of the easiest and most minimalist JavaScript frameworks with which to get started, but very few tutorials exist that cover advanced concepts in Vue. And that's why author wrote this tutorial.
Tags javascript programming nodejs
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ReactJS testing migrating from Tape to Jest
Posted on October 26, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Thomas Greco is the author of the post sharing his feedback about recently using Jest while contributing to the next-static project after coming across it on Next.js' repository. He shares a ton of experience writing unit tests and explores the topic a little bit.
Tags tdd nodejs javascript