tag: Frameworks

We have previously seen a simple todo app using FeathersJS(and NeDB). Feathers makes it really easy to develop an API or a real-time app by providing a super-powered baseline that can be extended quickly to create a useful app. However, the example provided earlier does not provide a set of features anywhere near the real-world experience. So, here we are talking about all the additional things that Feather could do - only if you let it. This is a FeatherJS + ObjectionJS + Feather-Vuex tutorial through building a totally real-world, simple CRM application called ‘FeatherLight CRM’. We name it thus since all awesome apps deserve their own name and identity. ...

Fastode is an experimental boilerplate / framework based on Fastify. Why another boilerplate? Well, I just wanted to experiment with technologies to create MVP products. Although I have used NestJS, AdonisJS and friends before, those frameworks, while being great, bring their structure and overhead to any project. I wanted to check how difficult or easy it is to just start with a bunch of basic features and leave everything else to the project. ...

#rant that none asked for. I came across this whitepaper on testing micro services. I clicked on this link because I am writing microservices now but I am fairly new to microservices. I did a mistake that I have repeated 1593 times in the past. The said link was a resource by one of the big IT service providers. While the work indeed is commendable - automating 4000 test cases is no joke, the content and approach for highlighting the “best practice” leave much to be desired. ...

I had been meaning to use more of Fastify for work, but only made that a reality recently. So far I have had a great experience on the server framework. What is Fastify? Fastify is a low-overhead server framework built on top of NodeJS. Fastify was started in late 2016 and jumped to v1.0 in Q1,2018. So - it’s a comparatively younger framework. But that has not stopped it from having great ambitions. ...

I was getting back to Svelte for a small project and ran into a strange issue. npm run dev did not run the svelte app as expected - no output or errors. First I create a new project. npx degit sveltejs/template awesome-project-1 cd awesome-project-1 npm i npm run dev And, I get greeted with nothing. I did not have any errors or output to debug. tldr; Set config ignore-scripts to false and retry. ...

Create a simple to-do client using FeathersJS. We saw a quick tutorial on creating simple FeathersJS API yesterday. Let’s unlock the full power of Feathers by using its client library and consume the API created in the earlier post! Install and initialize project We will use plain Javascript and HTML with Feathers client-side library for the purpose of this demonstration. Create HTML page Create a simple HTML page to include - a simple input box to enter new to-do an element to display to-dos fetched from server We will also include feathers from CDN. ...

Create a simple to-do API using FeathersJS v4. FeathersJS v4 launched yesterday, and I wanted to see what changed. Of course, I wasn’t going to write a post just about v4 - I have not kept up with the Feathers ecosystem. So, let’s refresh our mind and soul by building a quick API and see how the story develops. We can start with Feathers using their CLI or with just a NPM install. We will use feathers CLI for the purpose of this post because of two reasons - ...

Let’s create a simple ’to do’ application using Svelte and GraphQL. The objective is to demonstrate getting started on a GraphQL query and insert operation in a Svelte component. If you are new to Svelte, you may want to go over what Svelte can do from the official site, or see Svelte quick overview. Also, we will not quite dwell on the backend server in this post - you can follow along if you have any GraphQL backend. If not, I suggest you get started with a GraphQL setup of your own in the next 15 min. I will use the data structure and statements from the server setup described in that post. ...

The typical Javascript frameworks love playing the middleman. They continue playing that role at development and at run time. Svelte is not your typical middleman - instead the framework lays out the path during build, and completely hands over to standard Javascript at runtime. If that does not pick your interest - I don’t know what will 😜. This is the dev cycle cycle for a typical framework - Create your application using a template provided by framework Create application using the excellent toolset provided by framework. The development is almost magical - use components for max reuse, and test/debug your code easily and quickly Package everything without fuss. The build scripts will include a lot of framework code + your own code Deploy build to your web server and reach nirvana While frameworks do an excellent job of running applications, they sit on top of Javascript and web standards to deliver that experience. ...

tldr; There are experts, and there are experts. Recently I came across evidence for time travel. I am referring to this blog post from 2016 - and outlining the same here in full glory. Popular NodeJS Frameworks Hapi, Meteor, Derby? Those were the days when Javascript was trying its super powers and finding itself on the good side - each and every time. This post, as you have misread by now, is not about bashing some other blog. The authors do a good job by themselves. My intent is also not to warn the world of the danger of just listening to experts and wasting days/weeks on a framework that might not be worth the effort. ...