Web and Mobile Development articles
If you’re using Browserify to bundle assets in an Express or Connect application then you may want to consider using node-enchilada middleware to faciliate your bundling process.
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I’ve written a few posts on remote debugging before, using edge inspect and weinre. They’re definitely very good at the problem they try to solve but today I came across a new Javascript-only remote debugging tool (mobiles, desktops, laptops, etc.) called JSConsole and am loving it! It’s pretty amazing for what it does and is trivial to setup.
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I am building a Node.js application where I want the users to be able to signup with their twitter credentials rather than remembering another set of username/pasword. My framework of choice is Expressjs, so I’ll quickly show you how to authenticate the user with twitter’s oauth service in it.
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Underscore.string is an excellent string manipulation library (or helper) for Javascript that can be used with or without the nifty Underscore.js library. It can be used client side in browsers or server side with Node.js.
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Using the node-open module you can open files or URLs in the user’s preferred application.
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If you’re a browserify user, then beefy might help you bundle your JavaScript file automatically. It is a command line tool that runs a local node server which accepts a path to the JS file (with all your require() calls) and serves the bundled asset via browserify.
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Browserify is an excellent tool that lets you use CommonJS modules right in the browser by bundling them up into a single large file. If you are well acquainted with Node and it’s way of loading modules via require('module') and exporting them using module.exports = ..., this is the exact pattern browserify brings to the browser. Not only can you write your own modules in this format and load/export them, but you can also use those installed via npm!
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