Tag: nodejs

When working with serverless actions, often we'll still need to access some sort of service, whether it's object storage, a database, or whatever. Here's a quick overview of how this works for IBM Cloud Functions (plus some gotchas ....)

As a developer-of-another-discipline who is now transitioning into a bunch of NodeJS projects, I grep a LOT. However I am usually only interested in the code in the project at hand, and not the dependencies - of course grep has a switch for that! To grep your project and not the …

Now I'm working at IBM I am making extensive use of their Bluemix Platform, which is based on Cloud Foundry. The way that Cloud Foundry is set up is actually very neat, with everything you need contained in JSON structures within environment variables. Parsing out those values can be a pain however, so I thought I'd share the library that's helping me the most with this: cfenv.

Right now I'm working on a javascript project that relies on another module for some of its functionality. I'm making fairly major changes that affect both projects, and since the dependency is pulled in via npm, initially I was committing and pushing to a repo so that npm could pull in the dependency from GitHub - on every update. Well that gets tedious really quickly so I'm now using the npm link command which is pretty handy. I hadn't seen it before so this blog post is basically the cheat sheet I wrote when I started using it...

I write a lot of APIs, and I also preach that your API isn't finished until it has excellent documentation. Which is great, but that means I therefore have to lead by example and document my APIs :) Enter iodocs from the talented folk at Mashery.

Iodocs is a node.js application (which is fun for a PHP developer. Most developers write a bit of JS, but this one hasn't). You describe your API and all its methods in JSON, and then iodocs presents an interface for you to enter API keys, add parameters to each request and press the "try it!" button. This makes your API call and shows you the results on screen, which seems like a great way to demonstrate what all the various parameters do!