There are a few genuine concerns with Vapor but I honestly don't think any of these are very relevant. Vendor lock in is not an issue I've ever run into anywhere and its generally more expensive to maintain vendor agnostic applications than it is to re-write parts of your code…

Data Access Layer — There’s no incredible insights here, no hot takes and nothing worthy of applause. It’s a simple rule that I follow on every SPA I build — regardless of size. To me, this is obvious and make sense. I cannot conceive of maintaining an application without having a dedicated Data Access…

This is a very short, un-paywalled survivorship guide to using the AWS CDK with TypeScript and node ESM. TL;DR: ts-node fails when there are ES modules in the dependency graph (not specific to CDK but you need it to run cdk synth). If you are using ESM you should already…

Refactoring JavaScript: Collection Pipelines — I recently started writing about refactoring JavaScript to use Collection Pipelines instead of loops. I make a pretty bold claim that this will lead to cleaner code, what I haven’t done yet is make a clear argument for why I think this leads to cleaner code. To me, there is…

An introduction to the unknown type: a better any — TypeScript code around the world is littered with the any type, and it drives me absolutely crazy. There is no (valid) reason to use it in application code, and you are opting out of the safety of a static type system. Many developers who are new (or not so new…

Refactoring JavaScript: Collection Pipelines (Example) — This is part of a series called “Refactoring Javascript: Collection Pipelines.” You can read the introduction here. In a previous article, I gave an introduction to the power of reduce(), however, I didn’t really highlight it’s potential with a real world example. In this article we will solve the Canva…

Refactoring JavaScript: Collection Pipelines (Part 2) — This is part of a series called “Refactoring Javascript: Collection Pipelines.” You can read the introduction here. In a previous article, I showed how simple collection pipelines can simplify the readability of your code with an example of IP validation. const validateIP = (ip: string): boolean => { const…

This is the first post in a series of posts about refactoring your Javascript code to use map, filter and reduce instead of loops. I refer to this style of programming as Collection Pipelines as I was first introduced to this concept in Martin Fowler’s Refactoring. One of the first…

Serverless framework is an amazing tool and I’m very bullish on the future of serverless development. For all the amazing content out there for serverless, there isn’t a lot on how to build CI/CD pipelines for serverless projects — so here we go. In this tutorial, we are going to…