NPM is a powerful package manager. It supports a scripts property in the package.json file. These scripts allow you to run commands for the current project. A typical command is to run the test suite for the project. You can also combine scripts or add CLI flags to individual …

TypeScript is gaining popularity in the JavaScript ecosystem. Package authors may choose TypeScript over JavaScript to automatically create type definitions. These type definitions will then be exported with the package and be available when importing the package in another project. This tutorial shows you how to export the transpiled TypeScript …

Sometimes you need to retrieve the name of a class in JavaScript. This is helpful for debug messages or when using the class name as an identifier. Retrieving the class name in JavaScript is different for static and instance methods. This tutorial walks you through the individual method types and …

Mocha supports a variety of configuration options. A typical approach configuring Mocha is the command line. Using Mocha from the CLI or via NPM scripts lets you pass down the desired options. Mocha supports a dedicated configuration file besides the command line flags. Until Mocha v7, the supported configuration file …

Web frameworks in Node.js provide a request object containing information from the requesting instance. The request object typically includes the IP address of the requesting client. If you want to geo-locate the requesting user, the IP address is helpful. This tutorial shows you how to retrieve the client IP …

The “unsupported media type“ error occurred while uploading a file to a hapi server. The file is an Excel sheet and at first, it seemed like the content type was the issue. But the problem was the multipart upload which comes with a straightforward fix! {{outline}} Fixing “Unsupported Media Type” …

Using git as your version control system comes with different ways to structure your repository. A popular approach using git successfully in your project is the git flow branching model from Vincent Driessen. When running into the error git: 'flow' is not a git command., you don’t have git …

JavaScript comes with a globally available String class. It provides dozens of useful methods for string transformations. For example, you may lowercase or uppercase a given string, replace parts of the string value, or check whether a string value includes a given term. This tutorial shows you how to remove …