Tag: web dev

  • Bruno asserts

    I mentioned Bruno the other day. Although it’s still very much under development, it is shaping up as a great Postman/Insomnia replacement. One of the aspects I’ve been using today is asserts. As part of a request, you can add some asserts – so when you’re hitting an endpoint it will check what status should…

  • Displaying markdown as HTML

    In the spirit of over-complicating things, when I wanted to collect all the links to the services on my homelab into one place, I decided I needed to write them in markdown, and have them converted on the fly into HTML by a server. Then when I couldn’t find exactly what I was after (Harp…

  • nginx in Front of a node.js app

    NGINX is a great webserver and reverse proxy – as in it can hand off requests to other web-servers. That’s the situation I want to have set up on my VPS. I want NGINX to handle incoming requests – some of them will just be sorted out by returning static HTML, others (like the weather…

  • CodePen.io

    I quite often leave a link to a GitHub repo to share my source in these posts, and on a few recent ones, a link to a live version of a page on my github.io. In a recent installment of CWD, Andrei shared some previous students’ solutions, and some were hosted on CodePen.io which I…

  • ZTM – Complete Web Developer

    I started my first Udemy a few days ago. I was watching one of those “How I’d learn to code if I started over” YouTubes, mainly because I’d like to know enough JavaScript to write little REST API’s on Node.js, but also because I’m starting to think web development makes more sense for a couple…