Webpack
Webpack has become my standard tooling for front-end assets in recent times. Though for all the in-depth documentation I found the learning curve steep and the number of options confusing. So I'd like to share some of what I learnt.
Webpack has become my standard tooling for front-end assets in recent times. Though for all the in-depth documentation I found the learning curve steep and the number of options confusing. So I'd like to share some of what I learnt.
I recently came across iisnode’s built in support for the excellent node-inspector package. My iisnode host of choice being AppHarbor, I proceeded to set up a repo and make sure it all works there.
The good news is… It does!
Today AppHarbor announced beta support for Background Workers, I have been eagerly awaiting this announcement as it is something I need all the time when hosting sites.
Last week I contributed a tiny piece of code to the Code52 Metro.css project. My contribution was a node script that creates a boilerplate Node.js website for you using the Metro.css styles, Express and wires up the LESS compilation.
It’s about 8 months since my first contribution to an open source project. It was followed up minutes later by one to reverse all the accidental formatting changes I made. Damn you Visual Studio!
The node-webkit project added a new feature yesterday, one which I requested. So I feel I should put up a quick post about it and why I think it could be useful.
I have been working on a more complete demo of creating a desktop app with NodeJS.
This one will use a full UI (KendoUI) and a Sqlite database to create a basic CRUD style app based on the Northwind dataset. Someone really needs to put together another (and actually well designed) standard database that people can use for apps like this.
Last week an interesting thread was started on the NodeJS mailing list.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/iy7Re33dwyU/yxwLlx1aUNMJ
Roger Wang from the Intel Open Source Technology Center posted about a new project from their team called node-webkit.
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
node-webkit brings WebKit to NodeJS. With it, client side applications can be written with a HTML/CSS UI on the NodeJS platform. We believe the async I/O framework and Javascript language is a perfect combination for client (mobile) side applications.
Node seems to be everywhere at the moment. Long on my list of things to take a look at, I finally took the time to sit down with it yesterday and get it up and running and get a feel for what it does.
In the process I also took my first look at Heroku, which is the cloud hosting platform for Ruby, Node, Java etc. that AppHarbor borrows heavily from in the .NET world.