Category covering programming languages and practices, sometimes I’ll cover more backend, sometimes frontend…
Decorator is a neat design pattern which lets you extend the functionality without modifying it. It’s usually also a higher order function = function that takes another function as an argument. I need a way connect to Mongodb In my NextJS project I use mongodb as a persistence layer, and Read more…
I recently found out that npm doesn’t support downloading same scope dependencies from multiple registries. Ideally, I’d like to define multiple registries for a scope. If npm fails to find the package from registry1, then it should try registry2 and so on. I use an @eisberg-labs scope for some private Read more…
To show you how I work with mongodb in js projects, I’ll setup a simple project and I’ll go step by step from setup to publish. What might be useful for you here: If you want to skip forward and take a look at the github repo, go right ahead! Read more…
Setting up a local https website without certificate warnings was a frustrating task for me, so creating this blog post as a cheatsheet for the future… You can check out the video at the end of the blog post, where I go step by step for setting up a secure Read more…
Make a directory for global installations: mkdir ~/.npm-global Configure npm to use the new directory path: npm config set prefix ‘~/.npm-global’ Open or create a ~/.profile file and add this line: export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH Back on the command line, update your system variables or restart/logout-login: source ~/.profile Test: Download a package Read more…
At the time of writing this, I couldn’t find any useful examples for mocking an actix actor. Google and Github code search were useless. Turns out I had to study the code on how to do it: https://github.com/actix/actix/blob/6c5c25da7a77cc9b372c28352a69a64f7f05231e/src/actors/mocker.rs This part: //! Mocking is intended to be achieved by using a Read more…
I have a problem. I have a lot of ideas in my head, which is why I use Trello whenever a new one pops my mind. That’s not the problem. Every idea I try to bring to life, I half finish, because a new one comes to mind. Some ideas Read more…
In this post I’ll cover my workflow of creating env-inject-file, a command line utility for populating config files with environment variable placeholders and my first published npm package. Version management My advice is protect your branch, write descriptive commit messages, use branch management. Branch Protection To enable branch protection, go Read more…
One of the problems of Java is not having support for multiline strings. It will be added in JDK12 JEP 326: Raw String Literals, but I’ll probably be stuck with Java 8 for a long time. And I doubt that I’m the only one… Annoying thing about single line strings Read more…
Stack: Angular 6, Django 2.1 Problem: How to pass hash to Django index template when publishing an angular production app? Folder structure looks like this: ├── ui │ ├── angular.json │ ├── karma.conf.js │ ├── node_modules │ ├── package.json │ ├── src │ ├── … └── django_project ├── manage.py ├── Read more…