Development and Architecture

With Heroku you can easily setup deployment and hosting of your application in the cloud. Here are 6 steps how to quickly set up your Node.js application on Heroku.

I've written a transmitter which collects data from Contentful and indexes it in Algolia. It is written in Node.js and really simple.
The application syncs content between Contentful and Algolia. You can configure the service to run with Drafts (Preview API) from Contentful and put it in different indexes in Algolia.

In the past I have written about how I use npm scripts for my build tooling. With this article I want to write about some problems I had and how I solved them. The problems I want to talk about further:

• Concurrency
• Extensive build configuration
• Build environments

When ever I do a front-end review for webpages I start compiling a new checklist of things that I need to take into account for the review. Now I tried to collect some of the most important questions to check for and release them publically.

We tend to solve a lot of problems related to the front-end by delegating them to existing programs. We use libraries and tools which we don’t understand completely - our code base grows and grows. But lately this trend seems to change and we slowly re-consider what we can do best: develop front-end code. What can we expect from this new trend and how can we use them in out daily business today?