Brian Childress

Use Environment Variables with npx

If you use npx to execute commands and need to reference environment variables, the solution is very simple.

10-19-2021

Troubleshooting Major Version Upgrade: AWS Aurora

If you need to perform a major version upgrade to your AWS Aurora instance(s), you might run into errors, here's a possible solution

10-12-2021

Generate an Object from an Array of Objects

If you've ever had an array of objects, each with a unique value and wanted to deal with a single object this simple solution might help.

09-15-2021

Git Submodules: Error When Switching Branches

If you've received 'error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout', you are likely using git submodules. Here is how to get around that error.

08-19-2021

ESLint Out of Memory Error

When using ESLint with a lot of files or plugins, it's possible to cause an out of memory error, here are some tips for debugging and resolving

08-18-2021

VS Code Shortcuts

If you use VS Code, here are some handy shortcuts that might help make your development life a little easier.

07-14-2021

Hiding JavaScript Files in VS Code

Like most JavaScript developers I'm writing a lot of Typescript, here are the steps to hide the JavaScript files that are compiled during the development process in VS Code.

07-09-2021

Generate JWT for Testing

In this article we'll look at generating JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for testing purposes.

06-08-2021

Download an Entire Website Using wget

In this post we'll look at a simple wget command to download an entire website, including all content and assets.

06-01-2021

Serverless Framework and Serverless Offline Error: POST Request Not Responding

If you use the Serverless Framework and Serverless Offline Plugin for developing Serverless Functions, (e.g. AWS Lambda) you might have seen an issue recently with POST requests not responding.

05-14-2021