All tutorials here at Future Studio carry a list of tags. We’re assigning tags to tutorials for some kind of grouping. Tutorials may belong to different topics and tags are a good use-case for that. On the server-side we’re using an array of strings for the tags. When …

When working with strings you may want to transform the first character of a given value. This could happen when you scaffold files for a project and want to ensure a given function name starts with a lowercase character. Or you’re doing something else and still want to know …

Changing only the first character of a string value in JavaScript may happen when you scaffold files or code in your projects. You may want to ensure a specific casing for your method or class names. For example, you could ensure a class name always starts with an uppercase character. …

Working with string values comes with some typical problems. One of them is to add a prefix to an existing string. For example, you might compose a URL and want a given URL path with a leading forward slash in case it’s not present on the current value. This …

Working with strings you’re running into typical use-cases. One of them is to append characters or words to an existing string. For example, you may want to check whether a view template file exists on your local hard disk. For that check you need the filename with extension. Your …

In web applications you may accept user inputs. The users fill out forms and submit them to send the values to your backend. Receiving data on your server usually comes with data validations. The validation steps could require a string value of a given length for a field. In other …

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 …