I got following error when I was trying to install the lua-resty-aws in MacOS(M2 chip) luaexpat 1.5.1-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.4-1 provided by VM) env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11.0 gcc -O2 -fPIC -I/opt/homebrew/opt/lua/include/lua5.4 -c src/lxplib.c -o src/lxplib.o -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include -Isrc/ src/lxplib.c:12:10: fatal error: 'expat_config.h' file not found #include "expat_config.h" ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. Error: Failed installing dependency: https://luarocks.org/luaexpat-1.5.1-1.src.rock - Build error: Failed compiling object src/lxplib.o

In ShopBack, we use FaceBook Flow as our static type checker in a new web application project. Flow is much lightweight than TypeScript and easier to learn for developer. Before we started to adopt Flow, we already knew the community is not stronger than TypeScript and if you face a…

I’m creator of react-bootstrap-table and react-bootstrap-table2. That is about three years journey for creating this two React UI library. Currently, I already deprecated react-bootstrap-table due to bad maintainability. It was published at three years ago when I was a Big Data Engineer, I made so many mistakes due to poor…

In this article, I will introduce some common questions about using lerna to create a javascript monorepos project. When writing this article, the version of lerna is 3.6.0 If you want to have an independent workspace to play lerna, I will recommend to visit lerna-playbook which is a docker environment…

ShopBack’s browser extension is a fantastic tool that offers shopper a quicker and faster way to earn cashback. You can visit our tutorial page if you are interested on it. However, since we launched our new browser extension to Chrome and Firefox, we faced three times taken down just within…

Recently, we built a E2E test environment with selenium@4.0.0-alpha.1 and wrote some test suites for testing ShopBack’s browser extension. In the following section, we will go through how we install a local browser extension into Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox which initialized by Selenium. Google Chrome selenium@4.0.0-alpha.1 chromedriver@2.41.0 Google Chrome is much…

In this article, I just want to share a short journey about refactoring a monolithic eCommerce software. I will not too focus on how to use CQRS or DDD, because a huge software refactoring is not just about engineering but also people, decision, organization and culture. Just share my thoughts. Background …

ShopBack leverages on WebExtensions to build a cross-browser extension in one source code. In addition, we also use React.js to implement the extension UI. In this sharing, we are going to introduce how we build and package a eCommerce browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Build & Package Extension In ShopBack browser…

Lerna is a tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages. Sometime, in a large code base system, we need to split the code into the different modules or packages due to code sharing or single responsibility. …