This is a neat little command to updates all dependancies to the latest. npm i -g npm-check-updates ncu -u npm install Before "dependencies": { "express": "*", "mongodb": "*", "underscore": "*", "rjs": "*", "jade": "*", "async": "*" } After "dependencies": { "express": "~3.2.0", "mongodb": "~1.2.14", "underscore": "~1.4.4", "rjs": "~2.10.0", "jade": "~0.29.0",...
I normally use MAMP or Vagrant but recently I have been working exclusively with node and wanted to easily create a http server using ssl mainly for quick prototypes. First setup your project create a directory cd into that directory and run. npm init -y npm i http-server Now setup...
In this post we will talk about securing your source code for an ElectronJS desktop app. First lets decompile an electron js app. Navigate to your app in the Applications folder right click and Show package contents. Navigate into Contents and Resources. Drag the Resources folder into terminal. You can...
Recently I needed to create a role for media convert using Cloudfomration I also needed to pass that role through to my Lamdba NoddeJS fucntion within environmetal varibles. At first I thought you would need to use the GetAttr function like this. "CloudfrontUrl": { "Description": "Cloudfront Url", "Value": { "Fn::GetAtt":...
Quick post I needed to setup a test for my Lambda function but also pass along metadata with the put test as it is needed within our workflow. Here is the json of the put test you should notice at the bottom in the object json the extra metadata field...
Ok that title felt like a mouthful. I wanted to be able to listen to file uploads to an AWS S3 bucket and trigger a Lambda function to run some processing on the uploaded file. Lots of ways you could use this. Creating a trigger in a Lamdba function is...
Recently I had the task of moving a lot of our setup from the AWS PHP SDK to simple Cloudformation templates. One issue that I had to resolve was passing data from the Cloudformation template Parameters to the Lambda function. Here is just a simple example to demonstrate the process...
I wanted to log my take on callback hell as I couldn't really find much information on how to pass data through your callback chain after being changed to promises, it turns out it is pretty easy when you know how and the results are great crazy looking code looks...
