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Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Automation, Git, Unit tests, CI/CD, GitOps, Monorepo, Node.js
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Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Git, JavaScript, Unit tests, CI/CD, Monorepo, Node.js, Release and features
Conventional Commits introduces a structured format for commit messages. It standardizes the messages among all the contributors. This makes them more readable and easy to automate. It simplifies the…
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JS monorepos in prod 2: project versioning and publishing
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Git, JavaScript, Unit tests, CI/CD, GitOps, Monorepo, Node.js, Release and features
One great advantage of a monorepo is to maintain coherent versions between packages and to automatize the version creation and the publication of packages. This article covers the versioning and…
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JS monorepos in prod 1: project initialization
Categories: DevOps & SRE, Front End | Tags: Git, JavaScript, GitOps, Monorepo, Node.js, Release and features
Every project journey begins with the step of initialization. When your overall project is composed of multiple projects, it is tempting to create one Git repository per project. In Node.js, a project…
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Plugin architecture in JavaScript and Node.js with Plug and Play
Categories: Front End, Node.js | Tags: Asynchronous, DevOps, JavaScript, Programming, Agile, Open source, Release and features
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By David WORMS
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Categories: Adaltas Summit 2018, Front End | Tags: Gatsby, GraphQL, HTTP, JAMstack, JavaScript, Markdown, React.js, SEO, API, GitOps, Node.js
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Native modules for Node.js with N-API
Categories: Adaltas Summit 2018, Front End | Tags: C++, JavaScript, Kerberos, NPM, Node.js
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Categories: Front End | Tags: GraphQL, gRPC, JSON, REST, API, Node.js, Registry
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EclairJS - Putting a Spark in Web Apps
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Categories: Front End | Tags: CoffeeScript, GitHub, JavaScript, Learning and tutorial, License, Mocha, NPM, Travis CI, Unit tests, Node.js
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Crawl you website including login form with Phantomjs
Categories: Front End | Tags: CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Mocha, Unit tests, Node.js
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By David WORMS
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Node.js, JavaScript on the server side
Categories: Front End, Node.js | Tags: HTTP, JavaScript, Server, Node.js
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