Posts in Front End Development

This is a bug I recently encountered with Karma and the Karma Sauce Launcher plugin. It plagued me for a week, finally I worked out the issue and I had to share …

Well, this one just stung me and a client after migrating from Bootstrap v3 over to v4 in a project. In Bootstrap of yesteryear, you overrode colours using …

As a self-taught developer, it’s easy to feel like you missed out on something, and assume your colleagues who did get a degree know more than you. Your …

I switched to Yarn a while ago, because Npm is incredibly limited. And while I enjoy fast speed on macOs and Linux, Windows has always been a bit slow. I never …

When you think of the new version of Angular, you think of it as Angular 2. Every article you read about the follow-up to Angular 1.x refers to it as Angular …

I love Firebase. The power and flexibility of using it alongside my favourite client-side framework Aurelia, unrivalled. Recently whilst building the Built With …

Let’s cut the crap, as great as Npm is for front-end and Node.js development, it has some pretty glaring issues. Firstly, code is pulled down without any …

I am all for developers pushing themselves, learning new things and refining their skills, but the one thing that really annoys me about front-end development …

I am not the kind of developer who jumps on bandwagons and uses whatever new tool is released or replaces another. However, after using Aurelia for over a year …

If you are using the TypeScript Skeleton application provided by the Aurelia team, then at the time of writing this, the project is still using TSD (well it has …