Following the release of Deno v1.0 I got excited to try my hands at it. These are my first experiences writing a simple tool in Deno.

A super fast introduction to Deno:
Deno is the spiritual successor of Node trying to fix design mistakes that were made early on but recognized only late into the project. Deno supports TypeScript out of the box and relies on web-standards. In Deno you can import ES modules from any URL and use fetch like you would in the browser. To help unify the community on processes and workflows Deno provides a wide array of stdLibs and has build in solutions for bundling, testing and code formatting. …

Words. They carry a kind of magic. A good story will always have us clinging to the teller’s lips. The right word will rally a movement. The wrong one will get us into deep trouble. Three simple words can change our life.

Words shape us, they form who we are and what we will become. Throughout fictional literature and myth we find characters who, with the simple utter of a word, make it rain fire from the heavens, heal the wounded, or summon allies. And a famous saying knows:

Watch your thoughts, they become words;
watch your words, they become actions;
watch your actions, they become habits;
watch your habits, they become character;
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. …

Once you get a centralized logging solution like Elasticsearch setup you open up an incredible amount of possibilities. That is if you actually send logs to your central place. On a recent project, we wanted to

“just log our deploys from the Jenkins Server”.

Thus we set out to find the “easiest” way to log to our Elasticsearch. We finally reached curl as our solution and today I will walk you through how to do that.

This post uses Elasticsearch version 7. We also focus on Mac and Linux terminals for commands. …

Once you get a centralized logging solution like Elasticsearch setup you open up an incredible amount of possibilities. That is if you actually send logs to your central place. On a recent project, we wanted to

“just log our deploys from the Jenkins Server”.

Thus we set out to find the “easiest” way to log to our Elasticsearch. We finally reached curl as our solution and today I will walk you through how to do that.

This post uses Elasticsearch version 7. We also focus on Mac and Linux terminals for commands. …

Want to streamline your codestyle? Let’s take a dive into how you can configure VS Code to automatically format your code according to your ESLint rules every time you save a file.

This assumes that you already have some ESLint rules in place. If not the airbnb rules are a good place to get you started.

Once you have rules setup and are hacking away in VS Code, the editor will start to complain every time you forget that “you should indent x” or whatever extraordinary rule your company might use. Especially if you are regularly engaged with different companies using different styles this becomes quite cumbersome. …

Today we will take a quick look at how to configure VS Code to automatically format your code according to your ESLint rules every time you save a file.

This assumes that you already have some ESLint rules in place. If not the airbnb rules are a good place to get you started.

Once you have rules setup and are hacking away in VS Code, the editor will start to complain every time you forget that “you should indent x” or whatever extraordinary rule your company might use. Especially if you are regularly engaged with different companies using different styles this becomes quite cumbersome. …

Testing is one of the essential steps in software development. Yet, testing and especially manual testing that clicks through the application is a tedious job that we often shy away from. But it doesn’t have to be. With great tooling coming out over the past couple of years we now have what it takes to automate click-through testing in our build process. In this post, we will look at why manual or click-through tests are important and how to turn this tedious and bothersome task into a fun one that drives our development forward.

Restless readers can jump straight into the repo accompanying this post. …

Testing is one of the essential steps in software development. Yet, testing and especially manual testing that clicks through the application is a tedious job that we often shy away from. But it doesn’t have to be. With great tooling coming out over the past couple of years we now have what it takes to automate click-through testing in our build process. In this post, we will look at why manual or click-through tests are important and how to turn this tedious and bothersome task into a fun one that drives our development forward.

Restless readers can jump straight into the repo accompanying this post. …