https://blog.abschill.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on abschill's blogHugo -- gohugo.ioendev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)©2022, something, in theoryFri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000weeklyhttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/proxy-js/Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/proxy-js/The Proxy object in javascript Allows you to create a wrapper for another object, which can intercept and redefine fundamental operations for that object.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipsjavascriptquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-dist-tags/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-dist-tags/Tags can be used to provide an alias instead of version numbers. For example, a project might choose to have multiple streams of development and use a different tag for each stream, e.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipsnodenpmquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-semver-tokens/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-semver-tokens/You may have noticed before, in package.json files, the dependency versions include a prefix that tell npm how to look for updates.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipsnodenpmquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-lifecycle-scripts/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-lifecycle-scripts/NPM Lifecycle scripts The “scripts” property of your package.json file supports a number of built-in scripts and their preset life cycle events as well as arbitrary scripts.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipsnodenpmquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/publishing-npm-packages/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/publishing-npm-packages/Publishing an NPM package Things to remember In package.json, make sure you define the following fields before publishing mainabschillfeatured imagequick-tipsnodenpmquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/javascript-set/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/javascript-set/When writing javascript, most of us default to using objects/arrays when we need to store stuff. It makes the most sense usually, but there are 2 other types that are often slept on.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipscode-qualityquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/javascript-map/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/javascript-map/When writing javascript, most of us default to using objects/arrays when we need to store stuff. It makes the most sense usually, but there are 2 other types that are often slept on.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipscode-qualityquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/variadic-unions/Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/variadic-unions/A lot of the time, you want to define union types in typescript, and you would set it up like this by default for a small collection of enumerated values-as-types:abschillfeatured imagequick-tipstypescriptquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/hugo-is-awesome/Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/hugo-is-awesome/I think I finally enjoy having a blog in practice the way I enjoyed it in theory in my head when I would be like taking a shower or driving in traffic or something.abschillfeatured imagehugoeffortthemesgo languagerationalizing my decisions in lifehttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-workspaces/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/npm-workspaces/Many of you might be in a similar position to where I was, thinking lerna still served some sort of useful purpose in the node ecosystem, but no, it doesnt apparently.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipsnodenpmquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/cwd-vs-dirname/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/cwd-vs-dirname/These 2 are commonly used to mean pretty different things in node. process.cwd() is a function that is evaluated to the working directory of the process, by default this is the directory where the process was called from (where “node index.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipsnodequick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/early-returns/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/quick-tips/early-returns/A good tip to keep in mind when programming is minimizing your use of else statements. When possible, exit the function context earlier given a value that establishes the given return, rather than reflecting that with an else statement to check for something else.abschillfeatured imagequick-tipscode-qualityquick-tipshttps://blog.abschill.com/posts/welcome-new/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000dev3141592@gmail.com (abschill)Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.abschill.com/posts/welcome-new/As you may have noticed, there are less articles than there were before. I decided I wanted to remove the longer tutorial posts I had because I am simply not interested in making that longer content and will be transitioning to primarily shorter “quick tips/opinion” types of posts instead.abschillfeatured imagehugoeffortthemesgo languagerationalizing my decisions in life