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 […]

constant panic (my mac osx)

So, in the past month, my Mac has been automatically restarting itself times and times again. While there is a possibility that some part inside it broke down, I really don’t even wanna think about that. Instead, I’ll just attribute it to the fact that my SSD is already 93% full, and apparently the hibernate […]

How do I (as a developer) use Automattic products (and their competitors) – Part 1

Hello there, If you’re a random reader, this post is exactly as its title reads. If you happen to be from Automattic Inc. itself, you know why this post is here! Now without further ado, I’ll tell you a story about how I came to choose and use some of Automattic’s products. A. WordPress itself […]

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 🙂 […]

max-width: 767px

Using Bootstrap? Most likely. Wanna apply some special rules to an element inside a grid (col-*) system within a viewport that satisfies something less than col-md but more than col-sm? @media screen and (max-width: 767px) may be your friend. If there is only one thing to come out of this, obviously the number 767. This, to remind my future self. Cheers,

React App stops working on anchor tags and Link components

Quick note for anyone who might run into the same issue I did. If your React – Redux – Router app suddenly stops working properly, and by that I meant, it mysteriously stops following anchor tags (<a>) or Link components (<Link>) properly (in my case the browser got redirected back to home (/#), then: make sure […]

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 […]

#RethinkDB – Is my (nested) field value contained in an array?

Hey guys, For those of you RethinkDB adopters out there, finding out whether a field -being an array- contains a value could be as easy as: //… .filter(function(row) { return row(‘fieldName’).contains(‘someValue’); }); But what if we want kind of “the opposite”, e.g., whether our field value is a member of an array? Turns out it’s […]

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.

easy-captcha not compatible with NodeJS 0.12.x

So, in one of our recent projects, easy-captcha was chosen to handle captcha image verification for a NodeJS Express web app. Everything was fine until I wanted to upgrade to Node 0.12.x, for which easy-captcha fails to compile. What’s worse, the library doesn’t seem to be actively maintained anymore; in fact, it’s 2 years long […]