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Coding styles for Open Source Projects?

Coding styles for Open Source Projects?

This has also been published in ITNEXT How to maintain coding styles when contributing Something I forgot to mention in my previous article was the fact that the repository I was doing a pull request for had a guide for contributors. This post outlines how you can enforce coding standards

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 3)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 3)

The story thus far… In part two we refactored the Faker object into a class. This allowed us to inject it into our Ancient faker module. So now how to we use this to our advantage? Stubbing using Sinon Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. Works with any

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 2)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 2)

The story thus far… So in part one we refactored the Ancient faker module into a class. We updated the tests and everything was still working as expected 😎. So what do we do next? Why did we even start refactoring again? As I mentioned in part one, occasionally some of

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 1)

Lock-step Refactoring in Node.js (Part 1)

I am the maintainer of an open source project called fakergem. It is basically a port of one of my favourite Ruby gems, faker. I enjoyed using faker so much that I wanted to have a similar experience when working with fake data in Node. The initial releases The start

Building scripts to write code! 😵

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Building scripts to write code! 😵

Let me get things straight! I LOVE coding! I spend almost ALL DAY coding. But there are some aspects of coding that are a bit tedious! So today I am going to show you an example of how I try and avoid writing code that shares common behavior. Let me