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Building a High-Performance Library Management API with Bun and Bao, Powered by Prisma, and Containerized with Docker

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Building a High-Performance Library Management API with Bun and Bao, Powered by Prisma, and Containerized with Docker

The dynamic landscape of web development is constantly being reshaped by innovative tools that promise to enhance performance, improve developer productivity, and simplify the deployment process. Node.js has been a significant player in this arena, providing the backbone for server-side development for many years. However, a new challenger has

Manchester Web Meetup #11

Manchester Web Meetup #11

Empowering JS apps with WebAssembly & Building Healthy On-call Cover

Developers React to the Monzo API

Developers React to the Monzo API

On August 1, 2019, the Behind The Buzz Word meetup group hosted an interactive session where attendees experimented with the Monzo API to handle expenses using Javascript and React. The event sought to provide a hands-on experience for developers who were interested in learning more about the functionalities of the

How I’ve been using React Native

How I’ve been using React Native

And some practices that I’ve found useful… React Native is pretty damn awesome. I have been working on a few React projects for a while, and being able to do the same kind of thing for mobile is amazing. Also, being able to create a mobile application for iOS

Forget React or Vue…how about Mithril?

Forget React or Vue…how about Mithril?

By now, if you have been working with frontend technologies for a while, you’ll know about the craziness that is Javascript frameworks. Back in the day you could get along fine with vanilla Javascript. Or if you had to do something funky you could throw in jQuery. But now…

Coding styles for Open Source Projects?

Coding styles for Open Source Projects?

This has also been published in ITNEXT How to maintain coding styles when contributing Something I forgot to mention in my previous article was the fact that the repository I was doing a pull request for had a guide for contributors. This post outlines how you can enforce coding standards

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 3)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 3)

The story thus far… In part two we refactored the Faker object into a class. This allowed us to inject it into our Ancient faker module. So now how to we use this to our advantage? Stubbing using Sinon Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. Works with any

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 2)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 2)

The story thus far… So in part one we refactored the Ancient faker module into a class. We updated the tests and everything was still working as expected 😎. So what do we do next? Why did we even start refactoring again? As I mentioned in part one, occasionally some of

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 1)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 1)

I am the maintainer of an open source project called fakergem. It is basically a port of one of my favourite Ruby gems, faker. I enjoyed using faker so much that I wanted to have a similar experience when working with fake data in Node. The initial releases The start