The following is a guest post by Damon Bauer, who tackles a pretty common web developer job: offering user image uploads. I'd hesitate to call it easy, but with the help of some powerful tools that do a lot of the heavy lifting, this job has gotten a heck of a lot easier than it used to be. Damon even does it entirely in the browser!… Read article
The following is a guest post by Damon Bauer. There has been a growing sentiment (for instance) that using node packages directly, with the command line interfaces they provide, is a good route to take. As opposed to abstracting the functionality away behind a task runner. Partly: you use npm anyway, npm provides scripting functionality, why not just use that? But there is more to it than that. Damon will walk us through the thinking, but also … Read article