node

2017-12-26

Firebase Push Notifications

Principles and Patterns (I wax lyrically a bit about software design; if you just want the code click here) My Principles and Patterns of Software Design class (what a mouthful) was one of the most important classes I took during my time at UVU. Most of the subject matter was based off of a modified...


2017-09-15

Testing Cloud Functions

Click me if you wanna get right to testing It is now 2017 Happy belated new year. Its been about nine months now. Change is constant and inevitable. In this year alone I have: Gotten a new and exciting job,...


2018-05-29

Vue, Jest, and Netlify

Frontend programming is hard Frontend programming is difficult to do rigorously. It's too easy to cobble together some frontend code that kinda works. Crafting a good user experience with a coherent UI is a craft and a science. And to be honest, a good UX/UI usually makes or breaks a product. The wo...


2018-01-31

What I Like About Node

I Dig Node I remember when I was a fledgling programmer and Node was something I had just learned about; I remember thinking "Server side Javascript? That sounds like the worst thing ever". After tinkering with it and working with it professionally for about a year, I had a change of heart. Node ful...