Copying Homebrew to a new Mac
Homebrew is a powerful package manager for macOS that simplifies the installation and management of software. Migrating your Homebrew setup to a new Mac can be an easy process if you follow the right...
NPM Workspaces
Managing monorepos, a single repository with multiple packages (each with its own package.json and dependencies), can be challenging. This is where NPM workspaces come in. This post will cover what...
Why learn a framework?
I recently read two post that got me thinking about the value of learning a web development framework. These posts also align with my own experiences and thoughts on the subject. This post will...
Clean way to install NPM packages
One of my biggest frustrations in Node.js development is when your project works on your machine but breaks somewhere else. A common cause is package inconsistency between environments, even with a...
List Comprehensions in Javascript (sort of)
List comprehensions in Python allow you to create new lists by applying an expression to each item in an existing iterable, optionally filtering items based in a condition. I've always missed this...
Solving Dependency Vulnerabilities With Overrides
One of the biggest pain in working with Node.js is dealing with dependency vulnerabilities that you can't fix because they are in a transitive dependency (a dependency of your direct dependencies)....
CSS Colors
Since the first CSS specification, web developers were limited to a handful of ways to define colors in the sRGB color space. With the finalization of the CSS Color Module Level 4 and the ongoing...
Top-level Await in Modules
Top-level await in Javascript allows developers to use the await keyword at the top level of a module, outside of an async function. This simplifies code by enabling modules to act as if they are...
JSON modules are baseline newly available
The idea behind JSON modules, and import attributes, is to allow developers to import JSON files directly into Javascript modules, making it easier to work with structured data directly on the script...
Rest and Spread in Javascript
Javascript has two syntaxes that use the same representation: Rest and Spread. This post will explore the two syntaxes, their differences, and how to use them in Javascript and Typescript. The Core...