Node.js

Articles related to software development using Node.js. This includes node command line tooling, plugins, and other stuff. This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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• Added Automated Mode to Link Checker

  Posted Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 02:32 PM  in Node.js
  

  After publishing my link checker utility, I realized I wanted the ability to write the utility's settings in a project folder so I could quickly scan links for that project.

• Conditional Prompting Using Prompts

  Posted Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 12:18 PM  in Node.js
  

  Over the years, I published a variety of Node.js modules and CLIs; the CLIs because I wanted to automate some operation I needed to make easily repeatable. For my CLIs, I started building them using command-line arguments, but I quickly forgot the arguments and order. Next I used configuration files, but then that tied me into a specific file or set of files for different operations. Eventually I started using an npm module called prompts that allows me to prompt for all of the configuration options either as the only input into the program or for writing the settings to a default configuration file. Yesterday I spent some time figuring out how to do conditional prompts, so that's the topic of this post.

• Added Folder Selection My New Post Utility

  Posted February 6, 2024  in Eleventy, Node.js
  

  Added an enhancement to my Eleventy New Post utility to support choosing the target folder during post creation.

• Google Cloud Multiple Functions in a Project

  Posted January 8, 2024  in Cloud Development, Node.js
  

  In my previous post Coding Google Functions Using TypeScript I showed how to code Google Functions using TypeScript. Something else I wanted for my Google Cloud Functions project was to be able to manage multiple functions in a single GitHub project. This post describes how to do it.

• Coding Google Functions Using TypeScript

  Posted January 7, 2024  in Cloud Development, Node.js
  

  Describes how to code Google Cloud Platform Functions using TypeScript.

• Updated My Eleventy New Post Module

  Posted December 30, 2023  in Eleventy, Node.js
  

  When I published my Eleventy New Post package, it only supported selecting a single post category. That approach was fine for a while, but I noticed that I started assigning multiple categories to posts recently and the utility wasn't helping me as much as it could.

• Execa Node Process Spawning

  Posted December 26, 2023  in Node.js
  

  This post shares my thoughts on Execa, an older solution than zx but provides very similar capabilities. I covered both solutions in my All Things Open 2023 session.

• Migrating from Cipher to Cipheriv

  Posted December 19, 2023  in Node.js
  

  I have a Firebase project that uses a Firebase function to generate a URL containing encrypted data and another function to decrypt the data when someone invokes the URL (opens it in a browser). The functions use the Node.js Crypto library to do the encrypting and decrypting and I noticed recently in the library's docs that the library's createCipher method was deprecated and I needed to migrate my project to use createCipheriv instead. In this post, I demonstrate how I did it.

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