Client side applications are extremely popular and powerful, taking advantage of all the processing power available to the browser. Single Page Applications (SPA) built using frameworks and libraries like Angular, React, and Vue have changed a lot about how we think about developing an immersive …

I work on some sizable enterprise NodeJS applications and the thing that bites us most often are our configuration files. I like to use a simple configuration file to define static variables that are used throughout my apps to avoid hardcoded values whenever possible. This allows me to easily …

I recently needed a way to execute a bash script from a Node application. The premise was simple, to create an authorization protected Node/Express endpoint that could execute a bash script that lives alongside my app. My script does tasks like moving local log files and restarting processes. Node …