Anytime you build Node applications it is highly suggested that your cover your code with tests. When your code interacts with 3rd party API's such as AWS you will most certainly want to mock/stub your calls in order to prevent external calls (if you actually want to do external calls, these are called integration tests …
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If you have not given Visual Studio Code a spin you really should, especially if you are doing web/javascript/Node development. One super awesome feature of VS Code is the ability to easily configure the ability to debug your Jest (should work just fine with other JavaScript testing frameworks) tests. I have found that most of …
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When building applications in Node/Express you will quickly come to realize that everything is done asynchronously . But how you accomplish these tasks async can vary. The 'old school' way was to use call backs, which often led to callback hell. Than came along Promises which we thought was going to solve all the worlds problems, turned out they helped, but did not solve everything. Finally in Node 8.0 (ok, you could use them in Node 7.6) the support for async/await was introduced and this really has cleaned up and enhanced the readability of your code.
Say you are building a Node application which you want to host in AWS Elastic Beanstalk, but how do you automate this process? I mean sure, you could just open up the AWS console and manually upload your files, but lets be honest that is a royal pain in the ass. What we really want …
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There are many ways you can get code into an S3 bucket, especially if you have a build/deploy server. But what do you do when you do not have one? One possible solution is to use Gulp to build/deploy the React application and publish to an S3 bucket. Before you get started I am going …
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