Hugo Di Francesco articles - 81 total
Celebrating the publication of "Professional JavaScript" with the Dev.to family
"Professional JavaScript" (which I've a co-authored), has recently been published with Packt, it's cu...
Yarn Workspaces: monorepo management without Lerna for applications and coding examples
How to use Yarn Workspaces to manage applications/coding examples. Lerna isn’t required when you d...
Jest Full and Partial Mock/Spy of CommonJS and ES6 Module Imports
JavaScript import/require module testing do’s and don’ts with Jest The example repository is avail...
Add Search to a Hugo site with Lunr.js and Node.js
Hugo “The world’s fastest framework for building websites” is a great option for JAMStack (JavaScript...
JavaScript Data Type Check Cheatsheet
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, or just-in-time compiled programm...
Tailwind CSS 1.x impressions, development and production setup for static sites with Tailwind CLI and PurgeCSS CLI
How to set Tailwind CSS up with a static site hosted on Netlify See the full starter repository at...
Jest exclude file/function/statement from test coverage
In computer science, test coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code...
How long is a new feature/page expected to take?
One of my mentees just asked me "When working for a company, what is the expected timeline for a new...
Super-powered newsletter content with Pocket and Netlify Lambda
An example Netlify Lambda to fetch all “newsletter” posts from Pocket. Pocket is an application an...
Avoiding recursion pitfalls: MongoDB nested query clause addition and removal
A case-study on where recursion can be useful for enterprise Node.js applications and how to avoid it...
Read and parse POST/PATCH/PUT request JSON or form body with Express and no dependencies
When asked to handle data in a request body, developers who have used Express (th...
Jest assert over single or specific argument/parameters with .toHaveBeenCalledWith and expect.anything()
With Jest it’s possible to assert of single or specific arguments/parameters of a mock function call...
An enterprise-style Node.js REST API setup with Docker Compose, Express and Postgres
The why and how of enterprise-style Node.js application. A setup that’s easy to test and extend using...
Add days to a Date in vanilla JavaScript
Despite the JavaScript Date warts, it’s straightforward to add days to a date in JavaScript. While i...
Auto-publish future posts with JAMstack on Netlify and CircleCI 2.0 scheduled jobs
Static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, Gatsby or other JAMstack alternative are a great opti...
Enable CDN (Cloudflare) caching for your Netlify site
This post goes through how to reduce the amount of static assets served through Netlify by leveraging...
Docker Compose Local HTTPS with nginx or Caddy
A solution to serve your Dockerized application on Docker Compose with TLS/SSL locally by leveraging...
Deployment options: Netlify + Dokku on DigitalOcean or Hetzner Cloud vs now.sh, GitHub Pages, Heroku and AWS
Settling on a Netlify + Dokku on DigitalOcean (for US) or Hetzner Cloud (for EU) deployment stack fo...
JavaScript Object.defineProperty for a function: create mock object instances in Jest or AVA
This post goes through how to use Object.defineProperty to mock how constructors create methods, ie....
Fix git “tip of your current branch is behind its remote counterpart” - 4 real-world solutions
When working with git a selection of GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket and rebase-trigg...
Pass cookies with axios or fetch requests
When sending requests from client-side JavaScript, by default cookies are not passed. By default, f...
Parse POST/PATCH/PUT request JSON body with Express and no dependencies
When asked to handle data in a request body, developers who have used Express (the “Fast, unopinionat...
A guide to Express request and response mocking/stubbing with Jest or sinon
To test an Express handler, it’s useful to know how to successfully mock/stub the request and respons...
12-factor Node.js application configuration management without the `config` npm package
The config npm package is great (npmjs.com/package/config), but it encourages confusing and non-12-fa...
The comprehensive guide to integrating a Python/Ruby/PHP/shell script with Node.js using child_process.spawn
There are occasions when running a Python/Ruby/PHP shell script from Node.js is necessary. This post...
Async JavaScript: history, patterns and gotchas
A look at the history, patterns and gotchas of asynchronous operations in JavaScript. We’ll go throu...
Connect to MongoDB on Dokku with your local command line or Robo3T
The Dokku mongo plugin provides a mongo:connect command, which opens a tunnelled connection to you Mo...
Sequelize Data Types: a practical guide
DataTypes are core to the Sequelize 4 library. This is a practical and complete guide to make up for...
Technical content workflow for “Code with Hugo”: static site, Paper, Medium, DEV and Buttondown
tl;dr : here are the tools used to power, build and publish codewithhugo.com: Dropbox Paper becaus...
Post Frequency: from prototype to production with Vue + Node
If you want to ship, use the tools you know. — A lot of people Let’s apply that principle: I’m bui...