This post has been a long time coming. I started trying out NPM 5 the day it was released (May 2017), but wanted to reserve judgement until it had some time to “stabilize” and get some initial bugs fixed. As…
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Pretty-printing JavaScript objects with JSON.stringify
It’s fairly frequent that we end up wanting to log what the contents of a JS variable is. Often times though, that ends up being an object. Frequently this leads to something like this: This of course prints: The interpolation…
Posted in JavaScript, Programming
ES6 / JS2015 : Rest and Spread operators
The Rest and Spread operators added in ES6 / JS2015 drastically improve the ability to deal with unknown numbers of function parameters, and array and hash manipulation.
CSS Styling Illustrator SVGs
One of the problems with using CSS to style an SVG is that you will typically want to target class names, just like other HTML elements. Unfortunately it can be difficult to get meaningful class names exported into your SVGs in most editors. Here is a technique for exporting names in Adobe Illustrator.
Posted in Programming
Building Test Fixtures to Clean up Mocha / Jasmine Tests
One of the problems with unit testing complex software is that the tests often become as complicated as the system under test. This eventually leads to bloated test code that is hard to read and maintain, and is usually littered…
Dealing with the deprecation of peerDependencies in NPM 3
The peerDependencies configuration was originally designed to address the problem of NPM packages that were ‘plugins’ for other frameworks. The original problem is discussed more in-depth here on the NPM blog. For example, the grunt-contrib-jasmine package requires that the project using…
Using Deferreds With the Cordova File API
Reading and writing to files with the Cordova File API can be difficult and messy due to heavy use of nested callback functions. We can make a convenient wrapper around this API and use jQuery deferreds to clean up our code.
CodingWithSpike is Jeff Valore. A professional software engineer, focused on JavaScript, Web Development, C# and the Microsoft stack. Jeff is currently a Software Engineer at Virtual Hold Technologies.
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