If you have been programming for a while, you would be familiar with the hassles of writing clean code and maintaining consistency across a project on some specific code style guidelines. Even if you spend a few days making everything consistent, some other developer might check-in their changes or disable some...
I recently was working on writing end-to-end test cases using protractor on a project. Everything was working fine until the number of test cases increased significantly, and running the complete set of test cases took too much time. It was a pain to even think of running the e2e command...
Using “require” statements (commonJS syntax) in your server side code while writing “import” and “export” statements (ES2015 syntax) for your front end makes writing javascript a bit weird. The reason for not having import and export statements for modules is that node parses modules a bit differently than how they...
If you have been doing front-end development recently, the chances are that you would have heard about Webpack multiple times. In fact, most of the starter kits are built using Webpack Dev Server. The implementation and configuration are hidden by wrappers above it so that the developer continues working on...
Since npm is an open platform, anyone can publish packages to it. And thus the security impact of using npm in an application can make some people paranoid. Since a lot of projects today are written using node, node.js security should become an important part of your workflow. Node security platform is...
If I had asked a web developer a few years ago about using a build tool for their web project, the developer would have mocked me for even thinking about using a javascript build tool. It is a common notion that Javascript is not compiled and is interpreted by the...
Most of you would already be aware that javascript is an implementation of ECMAScript (ES). ES is the standardized language specification, and javascript is the dialect or the implementation. After the ES5 standardization in 2009, there were no updates to it. And since then, javascript has evolved a lot. It...
After I made my choice from the Grunt Vs Gulp Vs npm confusion I had, Gulp turned out to be my task runner for a project. And in this post, I will explain what you get with it. The first thing you need to know is that gulp uses streams...
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