Best Indie Fullstack Developer Tools
18 July, 2021A curated list of the best developer tools for fullstack indie developers covering everything from coding, git, database admin and devops
How to Make Money as a Developer
08 December, 2021Being a software developer of any flavour opens a wide range of possible income sources to you so that you can invest your time and energy in creating the lifestyle you desire.
How to Use Environment Variables in An Angular App
05 September, 2021Environment variables in an Angular app are extremely useful for storing constants in your app that need to be used frequently, such as API url's, API access keys, Firebase config values and other general flags.
How to use Environment Variables in NodeJs with Express and Dotenv
22 September, 2021Environment variables in NodeJs are essential for setting configuration options as well as storing important values securely. The environment variables allow you to store API keys and other configuration secrets independently from your main codebase and separate from your git repository so they never get checked in anywhere. Being able to configure and consume these variables is essential in creating solid, production-ready NodeJs APIs for all applications.
Setting Up an HTTP Server with Bun
09 January, 2024Bun is a lightweight and flexible framework for building HTTP servers and APIs in the mould of NodeJs. This post will guide you through the initial configuration set up of a Bun HTTP server.
Use Azure DevOps to deploy a NodeJs Function app
31 March, 2022Setting up continuous deployment on an Azure Function app can save a lot of time, particularly if your development process follows small, agile deployments where you may deploy to your production environment multiple times a day or week.
Using Regex to Add Spaces Before Capital Letters in a String
04 April, 2023Quite often as a frontend developer, you will want to use a string returned from an API as a header or a label in one way or another. Perhaps as a tab title or in a card for a dashboard. Unfortunately, the API may not be aware of this, nor capable of returning a string formatted in a nice way to allow the label to be human-readable.
What is Function Recursion
25 April, 2023You'll often hear or read that a recursive function was used to solve a programming problem that arose during the development of a piece of software. So, what is a recursive function, how does it work and when or why would the need to use one occur?
What is Memoization?
08 May, 2023Memoization is a term you will come across at some stage when reading about frontend frameworks, libraries and in various packages you may need to use. This post will explain what memoization is, why use memoization and how to implement memoization.
Why I use Microsoft Azure
14 July, 2021Reasons why Azure is the DevOps platform of choice for me