React SSR Deep(ish) look

Today, I looked into the React SSR sample code. (Kudos to Dan and team for the sophisticated user-land experience, btw). What stroke my curiosity was the <!DOCTYPE html> token at the start of the server response HTML payload: Why was I curious, you ask? Cuz at no point in the codebase do we explicitly write […]

wasm-pack from scratch

Today I decided to try wasm-pack from scratch. Let’s walk the talk together and see what we pick up along the way!

TypeScript Node.js testing tips

Situation 1 Use mocha in server-side TypeScript projects with compilerOptions.paths in tsconfig.json ? Then we need: mocha tsconfig-paths ts-node { “ts-node”: { “files”: true } } in the tsconfig.json file (see more here) Depending on how we import our modules around in the codebase, point (4) above may not always be needed. In one of […]

make a string url-safe

When running devops scripts (among other things), we often need to get a url-safe representation of an arbitrary string. This is commonly known as “url slug” by the average netizens. As my JavaScript is better than my bash, and npx is more universally available than my capability to master both Windows and Linux shell scripts, […]

ghost 2.x – how to use a specific pOST as THE home (landing) page

This post discusses an approach to use a normal Post as the entire homepage of a Ghost blog

npm install keeps showing permission errors?

Alright, this is gonna be a big no brainer, but we’ve all spent 1 full hour looking for our glasses, wearing them the whole time, haven’t we? If you keep getting permission errors whenever you npm install (even if you’ve fully followed the official guide on how not to get npm permission error), then obviously […]

npm dtrace-provider occasional issue

Context: if you use a node module having dtrace-provider as one of its dependencies, even primary or optional, once in a while you may notice a peculiar error spit out from your node processes: Error: Cannot find module ‘./build/Debug/DTraceProviderBindings’ This usually happens when I upgrade my Node.js version then go back to maintaining a few week […]

Finding your build scripts break after upgrading to npm@5 / node@8?

Howdies, npm@5 & Node.js@8 have been one of the hotter news recently within the NodeJS community. First of all, sincere kudos to the team behind for having going out of their ways in developing and maintaining such cool products that provide us developers with so much comfort to carry on in our daily work 🙂 […]

How to stop / end / abort / cancel a request made by npm request module

Hello guys, just a small update. Recently I took over a project developed months ago by another team. It was a NodeJS codebase with a lot of dependencies, one of which was the npm request module. As a feature required us to stop the request midway (if some condition has been met), we realised we knew nothing about stopping […]

Serving static HTML sites quickly with http-server

With the advance of contemporary front-end philosophies and frameworks such as React and Angular and all, having a quick and painless way to get started with any HTML project (even preferably configuration-less) can be very rewarding at times.