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Category: Javascript

Using graphql-code-generator with authenticated endpoints

December 10, 2019 Lorefnon Leave a comment

Dotan Simha’s graphql-code-generator is a really useful utility to generate integration code from GraphQL APIs for multiple languages.

This post outlines how to use the code-generator CLI when the GraphQL API is authenticated.

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Posted in: GraphQL, Javascript, Uncategorized

Kickstart your full stack GraphQL application with GRelDAL starter – III

April 20, 2019 Lorefnon

In the first post of this series we have looked at how to rapidly bootstrap your full stack graphql application…

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Posted in: Apollo, GraphQL, Javascript, Typescript, Web Development

Integrating Google diff-match-patch with AutoMerge.Text

September 23, 2018 Lorefnon Leave a comment

This post outlines the use of Google’s diff-match-patch library to generate patches that can be translated to operations against an…

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Posted in: Javascript, Popular Posts, Web Development

Uploading files to MongoDB GridFS via Apollo powered GraphQL API

August 20, 2018 Lorefnon Leave a comment

GraphQL multi-part request spec outlines a specification for multipart form requests in GraphQL. Jayden Seric, the author of the spec,…

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Posted in: Apollo, GraphQL, Javascript, MongoDB, Node.js, Web Development

Integrating Next.js, Apollo Server and Koa

August 18, 2018 Lorefnon Leave a comment

It is fairly straightforward to add a GraphQL API powered by Apollo Server to a Next.js application through a koa…

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Posted in: Javascript, Node.js, Popular Posts, Web Development

Javascript Async/Await with arbitrary Thenables

June 9, 2018 Lorefnon Leave a comment

Usage of C# inspired async/await syntax (Now a stage 4 proposal) is now fairly mainstream in javascript, and native support…

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Posted in: Javascript, Node.js

Typescript and validations at runtime boundaries

March 25, 2018 Lorefnon 9 Comments

Typescript team has explicitly stated that they don’t intend to extend typescript’s static type checking to the runtime. Typescript Design…

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Posted in: Functional Programming, Javascript, Popular Posts, Typescript, Web Development

An answer to “React is the new Java”

November 22, 2015 Lorefnon

While it is disheartening to see technologically superior software be ignored by industry in favor of lacklustre ones, is the…

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Posted in: Frontend, Javascript, React

Decoupling your frontend development with gulp and http-proxy

March 10, 2014 Lorefnon

In past developers have often relied on backend-specific toolchains for web application frontends. Some examples would be Rails asset pipeline…

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Posted in: Frontend, Javascript, Node.js, Web Development

Sharing Jade templates between Node.js server and client

December 12, 2012 Lorefnon

One of the biggest promises of Node.js is code re-use across client and server – this post focusses on reusing…

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Posted in: Frontend, Javascript, Node.js, Web Development
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