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on Jun. 7, 2017
JavaScript moves fast. Both the language, and the frameworks and tooling around it are receiving updates at an enormous rate these days. This pace of change oftens means a project you worked on a few months ago is now using “outdated” tools and technologies compared to your current project. And the…
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on Jun. 6, 2017
JavaScript is anything but a “static” language (pun intended). It seems everything is changing – even the naming of releases has changed, with years marking the language version. And starting with the release of ES6 (officially, “ES2015”), the language has has continued to evolve at a rapid pace,…
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on May. 31, 2017
A while back I wrote a post about selecting a base Docker image for Node.js. In that post, I talked about the size difference of the default build for Node.js and the smaller, “slim” and “alpine” builds. The difference can be significant: 650MB for the full image, vs 50MB for the Alpine Linux versi…
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on May. 15, 2017
JavaScript is rapidly evolving. With the TC39 Working Group setting the course for the language, and the larger community being involved in the process, it’s moving faster than any other language with 20+ years of history behind it. And it can be overwhelming at times – trying to keep up, trying to…
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on May. 10, 2017
It’s tempting to use the “:latest” tag of an image when you first get started with Docker and pulling images from DockerHub. After all, who wouldn’t want the latest and greatest version of MongoDB, Node.js, Redis, etc, when they start a project? But this is a guaranteed way to ruin your life, destr…
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on Apr. 24, 2017
Around a year ago, I wrote a blog post lamenting the high cost of entry for using ES6 features like generators, modules, etc. Since then, the world of JavaScript runtime environments has progressed significantly. Most (if not all) of the features that were once difficult to use without pre-compiler…