Lerna is a great tool to manage your monorepo. It installs and links project dependencies within the repository. Lerna can also run commands against all managed packages and help you with the publishing project. We at Future Studio maintain the Supercharge Node.js framework using Lerna. It allows us to …

ts-node is a TypeScript execution engine for Node.js. It allows you to run your TypeScript code directly without precompiling your TypeScript code to JavaScript. ts-node transforms TypeScript to JavaScript in-memory without writing it to disk. Large projects may still take some time to process. This is where SWC comes …

In some situations, it’s useful to ensure an ending character on a string value. For example, you always want route paths in your web application to end with a trailing slash. Or you want to ensure a base URL for API requests already has a trailing slash before appending …

Building a client-side API client comes with some challenges when composing the request’s URL. You typically store a base URL that may come with a trailing slash. The partial request’s URL may start with a leading slash as well. If this happens, you should’t concatenate both strings …

When working with strings you may want to trim off characters from the start of the value. For example, when composing a request URL you may combine a base URL with an endpoint URL. You want to make sure you’re not ending the base URL with a trailing and …

Developing applications usually comes with date and timestamp manipulations. You may let users interact with dates or times, like setting a task to be „due in 15 minutes“ or „remind me of X in 30 minutes“. JavaScript comes with a native Date type allowing you to manipulate dates. This tutorial …

Working with dates is a common task in application development. You may provide ways to adjust dates and timestamps in your app. One of these tasks may be adding hours to a date in JavaScript. For example, you may allow users to tell your app to „remind me in 1 …

Sometimes you want to show a visual hint to users when a due date comes up. Like, “please notice that your task is due tomorrow”. From a developers perspective you need to compare the task’s due date against the date of tomorrow. This tutorial shows you how to detect …