Comparing some common object, array, function and string functionality using ES5 and ES6+ — Over the coming weeks, I’ll be looking into some performance issues our Angular app has been running into lately. And after having a brief look over the code today and experimenting with some RxJS tweaks, I noticed a few instances of plain old JavaScript (well, TypeScript) that could do with some sprucing up.

From four cents a day to four hundred dollars plus per month. Stats, earnings and anecdotes for every story. — Hi all, I’d like to share my experiences of my first three months writing mostly programming articles on Medium. Firstly I should say that I don’t have a lot of time to devote to writing. I am a family man first and foremost, and a career man secondly. I don’t…

An ‘honest’ comparison between two of the most popular front-end frameworks — Hi folks, I’d like to detail my experiences with learning React and give you an honest comparison between it and Angular. Before I get started, I should establish some credibility. I’ve been working with Angular since around 2017, not long after it burst onto the scenes and quickly established itself…

Interactive examples of the component that powers our company’s web applications — I’m going to take you on a journey that my team and I at Nightlife Music took when building our new enterprise application in Angular. We started out with the knowledge that we needed components to display and interact with data, and routes to navigate around our various pages. A…

Some alternatives you can use now to stay one step ahead — *** Thank you to tzar for pointing out a bug with my ES6 + Lodash unset method. If this option is used with flattened paths, i.e. level1prop.level2prop you will end up modifying your original object. I’ll leave it here as a faster alternative to ES2019 for multiple properties, but I…

Product is not the only outcome of a software team. Exploring Platform, Process and People — Most people think that software engineering is all about building a product, and they’d be right, but it’s also much more than that. At Nightlife Music, we often talk about the four “Ps” of software engineering, these being Product, Platform, Process and People. At the core of these is the…

Why you want to keep them around, and when you may want to ditch them — Ever heard or said any of the following? What is package-lock.json (or yarn.lock)? Why do we need it? I’ve got conflicts in my package-lock.json file It takes up too much of the screen in my pull request! I’ll ignore it when I commit I’m just going to delete it Yes on all counts for me. Worse still, maybe…

And avoid some nasty performance surprises in production — Recently, a colleague of mine at Nightlife Music showed me (the code reviewer) and another colleague (the code writer) two ways in which our SQL query could be optimised. The exercise led me to add an ensure all queries are explained check in our code review checklist. The point of…

Using timestamps for every property to deal with concurrent updates to the same properties when new data is coming in asynchronously and out of order — In this article MongoDB: Maintain Data Integrity with Atomic Operations we got to know the $set, $setOnInsert, $push, $pull and $inc operators and learned why they are essential for making sure your data is accurate when dealing with parallel updates to single documents.