A blog about my coding adventures
Streaming is not a new concept. It has been a very common requirement in programming. However it is normally under appreciated and not discussed as frequently as it should. I was watching the movie “source code” (2011) then it suddenly clicked me and I was able to connect the dots. Although the movie was about … Read more
Welcome to the future. Life is good, but it can be better. And why shouldn’t it be? All you need is to want it. Think about finally having everything you always wanted. Max Lord (Wonder Woman 1984) I won’t say that I thought of Node.js when I first hear Max Lord saying those words in … Read more
Socket.io is an open-source JavaScript framework which is available as a Node package. It is based on WebSockets technology. Socket.io enables real-time, bi-directional, event based communication. JSON format is used for data communication Features Reliability: Socket.io is designed to work on every platform whether it is mobile or desktop. Speed: It is fast. Simple API: … Read more
In this post I will share with you a very basic development environment setup which is very useful if you just quickly want to evaluate some functionality. Same time this has a good foundation and can be extended once you are done with the initial testing. Angular and React are now a days default choice … Read more
Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. Atwood’S LAW In this blog post I will give a very light introduction to Node. There are tons of tutorials out there on the internet about Node, however, I wanted to have a very clear and to the point reference to … Read more
The web has evolved. Finally, testing has too. They really meant it. I was looking for a simple, easy to use and initiative end-to-end testing framework for one of our web application. I tried out cypress for the first time and found myself productive within about 10 mins. Before we go deep into the details … Read more
Node RED is powerful, extensible, graphical programming environment. It’s a flow based modelling tool which make it easy to create event-driven applications in a simple & intuitive ways. Its built on top of NodeJS and provides a browser based editor for wiring flows together. Node RED development environment is actually a web page running on … Read more
Building concurrent applications is hard. Building distributed applications is hard. And building robust resilient applications is also hard. Making use of the Actor model using Akka.NET makes these things easier. There are many things to consider when building reactive systems. The Reactive Manifesto describes the general characteristics of such system at https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ and Akka.NET adheres … Read more
Separate and Abstract code in its own scope, making it accessible and included again! That’s the thing which JavaScript module systems help us to achieve. JavaScript applications tend to grow fast and without any kind of structure in-place, it would be very hard to keep a cleaner code-base. Traditionally different techniques like IIFE, Revealing Module … Read more
In Jonathan swift’s satirical novel, Gulliver’s travels, Gulliver comes across two neighboring islands, Lilliput and Blefuscu. Two factions there at a war, the little-endians (Lilliput) and the big-endians (Blefuscu) and dispute concerns, which end of a boiled egg you should open. Well now a days, it would be nice to think that the world would … Read more