If you’re an aspiring full-stack javascript developer, might I suggest putting down the books and video tutorials to apply some of your newfound knowledge at periodic intervals.

This past year, I made a conscious effort to publish packages to NPM — the largest javascript package manager. …

Oh Tinder, you mean such different things for such different people. At various crossroads in my life you have served as a tool to fight boredom, and find the occasional date. Lately, you’ve been something else— giving me a sizeable, unique data set to pursue some research on in my…

If you’re not familiar with NPM, at some point it used to stand for Node Package Manager. With over 250,000 open sources packages to install, it is by far the most pervasive package manager. If you’re not already using it when it developing with javascript/node.js, you should highly consider starting.

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Best practice in test driven development (TDD) dictates the test are written first, and then functions are written to pass the tests. If written correctly, they should pass as soon as your functions are working.

The benefit of this approach is that changes made later on are just an ‘npm…

Well, you’re in luck. As web developers, we’ve got a set of skills that increasingly can be applied to a variety of mediums.

One of those mediums is the desktop — software in the classic sense of the word. Formerly known as Atom Shell (the foundation of Github’s own text…