How do you ensure your mobile application does not crash and burn when you need to make breaking changes to your backend code, which may including updating the graphql schema or even REST API endpoints or more? It is easy to achieve on a web…

Some of my projects are leveraging the jsonwebtoken package to issue JWTs as access tokens to our users. The package itself requires private and public key pairs to be generated and accepts a few types of keys. One of them is an EC key pair with the…

Kaniko is a pretty popular tool for building container images today as it does not require any kind of privilege or root permission to build containers unlike Docker-in-Docker. Having the ability to build container images without privilege while…

Versioning and releasing an application can be a time-consuming and complex process, especially when it involves tasks like determining the correct version to bump, adding appropriate tags, syncing the version back to different branches, and more…

Configuring the plugin for in Gatsby works pretty well except for the fact that if your line of code overflows into the next line, the default configuration that's provided does not cater for that. I went digging through the source code, through…

Ensuring code standards in your code repositories can be tricky, there are a few solutions that you can employ such as using hooks together with a tool like . However, there may be situations where the hooks are not enabled on the engineer's machine…

This is not a new problem that I faced but rather it's one that I solved quite awhile back. I haven't see any articles on the topic and I'm here assuming that everyone can get it working properly? But when I tried to get stack traces to function…

Most ways of how people demonstrate javascript method chaining, is by showing you a class with methods that return the object in itself . You can then subsequently call other methods and continuing chaining. However, that got me thinking. What if my…

Working with new frameworks and relatively "obscure" ones always have the trouble of needing to figure out everything yourself. Recently I had to implement uploads via GraphQL on ApolloServer 3 with Fastify 3. There was no documentation on how to do…

Running test stages for repos or NodeJS repos can be really painful if is taking too long to complete. Even though GitLab suggests you to use a cache configuration to cache the vendor folder so you won't have to wait for to complete everytime…

You are using AppCenter as your CI/CD tool for your mobile app, and it's great in terms of helping you to distribute the apps to users to test and submitting the application to the Play Store/App Store. However, your build times are absymal and you…