A coders paradise
You just created a package / library written in TypeScript or Javascript and now you wanna publish it to NPM along with its types (typescript definitions) ensuring that type-hinting is available to everyone who uses your packages, then this little post is for you <3 Linking a NPM package with its types Your package could have been written in typescript or in javascript. Lets deal with packages written in typescript …read more
For a website, sending email is usually one of the primary things needed yet many-a-times is not a trivial task. Lets see how to send email programmatically from your domain with ease and moreover for free! Works with both – shared hosting as well as private hosting (VPS). So what is it that’s needed to send/receive emails from your own domain ? The answer is an SMTP server which is …read more
This post involves setting up eslint, stylelint, husky and lint-staged to ensure you lint on precommit git hook. Less than 5 mins of setup that will automate linting and make it a part of your daily development process. If you are unfamiliar with the libraries that will be used, lets quickly see what each one of them does. Libraries Used and What they do ESlint – Tool to identify and …read more
There are several ways to kill a process in Ubuntu/Linux, discover the quickest way to force kill unresponsive program in 3 quick actions. This applies to any unresponsive application or process as well. How to force kill unresponsive program? 1. Hit Ctrl + Alt + T to open up your Terminal OR Alt + F2 to run a command 2. Type xkill. Your mouse cursor will turn into a small …read more
You try to setup a project with relative urls only to discover that the browser displays an unexplainable error (“page not found” or the famous “localhost not working” error). You ensure that the rules in the htaccess are correct. Still the same thing. Suddenly, it hits you – probably the htaccess is not being read correctly or maybe not being read at all! Well you couldn’t be more right! How …read more
FFmpeg can be used to encode videos into difference formats. It can re-encode videos and join, merge or split videos at ones will. FFmpeg is a powerful tool compatible with major Operating Systems (Linux, Mac, Windows). FFmpeg has a lot of options/parameters and sometimes these can get quite convoluted, so we will go through the most common video tasks explaining in detail the options/parameters to be passed. If you haven’t …read more
Learn how to integrate twitter typeahead search powered by Bloodhound directly into your Vuejs app. Using Twitter typeahead with Vuejs may seem tricky at first, but its far from the truth. Moreover, it is very well suited for traditional web apps as well as SPAs. If you are new to twitter Typeahead/Bloodhound, here’s a tutorial – Smart Search with Twitter Typeahead that I recommend before going ahead. Requirements: – VueJS (v2.5 and …read more
Want to start using async generator function, spread operator and all the latest features of ES2017, ES2018 in your projects? Well, wait no further to checkout how easily you could achieve this! There are 2 ways of supporting these features – Update .babelrc file Update Webpack Encore config A little background explaining What is Babel? And what are Babel presets? Latest features of Javascript (like spread operators) may not supported by …read more
Developers using GIT as their Source Version Control know the troubles in setting it up for new projects. Getting more productive needs setting up of user credentials, alias’ and other git configurations for every new project. But what if you could have a global git configuration to avoid redundant tasks? That’s where global gitconfig comes in. Git does not automatically create the global .gitconfig file during installation. This file is …read more
Regular Expressions aka Regex are expressions that define a search pattern. They are widely used for validation purposes, like email validation, url validation, phone number validation and so on. Forming Regex: A regex is written between two forward slashes (/) delimiters. These delimiters are essential only for certain Regex engines (JS,PHP..). It is then followed by 2 flags: i : Ignore case Flag, ignores the case(uppercase/lowercase) of the input string …read more
