In this post were going to bootstrap an Express application, bung on typescript and get GraphQL up and running in no time at all. 🚀

All the code discussed and given as examples is available in the repo and I encourage you to checkout the article tag for a nice…

I recently came across a little known feature of Windows WSL. The ability to launch GUI apps!

I’ve started doing much more of my environment management in WSL rather than Windows recently, excellent tools from Jetbrains and VSCode make coding in this environment a doddle.

While installing some packages I…

Introduction

It’s entirely possible to get your Spring Boot application up and running in docker in less than 10 minutes.

Let’s run through this process first in theory, then in practice. …

1. Introduction

Many automation libraries exist for python which help scrape sites and perform testing. Projects like Roboform, BeautifulSoup and requests all provide excellent features.

One slightly lesser known name to Python projects is Selenium. It’s an industry accepted automation and testing framework for UI’s. …

Getting a Deployable Artifact

Picking up from where we left on in the previous guide, we are going to start to look into how we can work with our project and its files.

You should now be able to go ahead and trigger a Gradle build at the root of the project.

./gradlew build

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If you have spent any amount of time with the Python programming language, you might have come across the main scope conditional. It looks something like this:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ...

What this method does is perfectly summarised in the Python Docs for the standard library:

A module can…

Python is full of extremely powerful functional programming expressions. Across all programming languages, one of the most commonly used of these is the ternary operator.

We might recognize this operator from other languages as:

(condition) ? (return if true) : (return if false)

In comparison to most programming languages, Python…

CORS is for security, ok, but why?

I don’t intend on making a long deep dive into CORS during this short blog. But we should know the fundamentals.

CORS is an access control mechanism. It’s designed to prevent unauthorised access to an API.

It uses HTTP headers to manage this ACL.

It uses Pre-flight requests when queries…