In some situations, you must ensure that a given value is of a certain type. For example, you may have an options object supporting different properties. Some of them are expected to be numbers. You’re validating the input values and ensuring the given values are numbers and values in …

We’re working on the new Future Studio website. We migrated data to MySQL and used TINYINT(1) columns to store boolean values. An ORM reads data from MySQL and we added convenience methods on models to determine whether a given value is true or false. We’re translating the …

We’re working on the new Future Studio website. We’re migrating data from the previously used document database RethinkDB to MySQL. RethinkDB allowed us to store boolean values. MySQL stores boolean values as TINYINT(1). During the data migration from RethinkDB to MySQL we transferred all boolean values to …

Switching to a new Node.js major version requires you to freshly install dependencies. You may receive the following error when forgetting to re-install dependencies: Error: The module '/home/futurestudio/projects/futurestud.io/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node' was compiled against a different Node.js version …

Node.js has the built-in crypto module that allows you to calculate hashes. To calculate a hash, Node.js uses a bundled version of OpenSSL for cryptographic functions. You don’t have to interact with these cryptographic functions directly. The node:crypto module wraps OpenSSL’s features with a clean …

JavaScript arrays come with dozens of helpful methods. Chaining methods is also possible because some of the methods return an array instance, too. That means you can create your array pipelines and adjust the values to your needs by filtering, mapping, sorting, and so on. But some of the array …

We migrated the code running the superchargejs.com website from CommonJS to ESM. The CommonJS project used ts-node in combination with SWC to run the code. But ts-node isn’t working with TypeScript and ESM (there’s an open issue). We can’t use ts-node because of the mentioned issue …

We’re using UVU as the test runner for packages and applications. UVU works nicely in CommonJS projects using plain JavaScript and also with TypeScript using a require hook. We used the ts-node/register hook with UVU, but that one doesn't work anymore when migrating your code from CommonJS to …