How To Choose The Right Framework For Your Next Node.js App.
A practical comparison of Node.js frameworks, organised around the needs of the application, the trade-offs, and the developer's own constraints.
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A collection of things I've written while learning, building, comparing tools, and trying to explain what I found useful.
THE NOTEBOOK
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Advanced Node.js Topics: Caching.
An introduction to using Redis as a cache in a Node.js application, including a hands-on example and a comparison of repeated database reads.
Docker: Brief Introduction.
A beginner-oriented introduction to Docker, containers, images, installation, and the vocabulary around running applications in containers.
Side Project: Life-Advise Web App.
A look at Life-Advise, an offline-first progressive web app for advice and quotes, including local saving and optional daily notifications.
Javascript 1O1 series: Array’s Methods And Iterators Part(1), Methods.
A JavaScript fundamentals lesson focused on array methods and the ways they help work with collections.
Javascript 1O1 series: Scopes and Execution Contexts.
A beginner-friendly explanation of scope and execution context as part of a broader JavaScript fundamentals series.
Javascript 1O1 series: Functions.
An introductory entry in the JavaScript 1O1 series, covering functions and their role in organising reusable behaviour.
Javascript 1O1 series: Variables vs Constants, and Let keyword.
A fundamentals lesson on JavaScript variable declarations, constants, and the let keyword.
Javascript 1O1 series: Writing loops with For, While and Do while.
A practical introduction to the common loop forms used to repeat work in JavaScript.
Great collection of Free resources to learn javascript and web development.
A curated collection of learning resources for JavaScript and web development.
Conditional statements and loops Practices in Javascript.
Practice-oriented material for working with conditional statements and loops in JavaScript.
Javascript console.time(), What is it?
A short explanation of console.time() and using the browser's developer tools to measure elapsed execution time.
Javascript 1O1 series: Conditional statements. if, if else and switch.
An introductory guide to branching logic with if, if/else, and switch statements.
Javascript 1O1 series: Learn syntax, variables and datatypes.
An early JavaScript 1O1 entry covering syntax, variables, and data types for beginners.
Javascript 1O1 series: introduction.
The opening entry in a JavaScript fundamentals series, setting the scene for the lessons that follow.
Document.designMode, What is it?
A short exploration of the browser document.designMode property and an unexpected way to make page content editable.
what to write about
A brief reflective post about the question of what to write about. Its presence is a small but useful counterpoint to the technical tutorials.
An archive, not a claim to have said the last word. Some of these pieces are early technical writing; the questions are still worth revisiting.