Author: Andrew Evans

In this post I will be building out an API with Google's Firebase. I will be building out the back-end with Firebase Cloud Functions and ExpressJS. Before I begin, I recommend you have the following setup: A terminal setup on either a Windows, Linux, or Mac (OSX) computerNode 10.10 installedNVM installed with the instructions hereA … Continue reading Building an API with Firebase →

a construction crew building a serverless API with claudiajs (source) Recently I was trying to build out a serverless JavaScript API with AWS, and found a really nice CLI and Framework called ClaudiaJS. With ClaudiaJS I was able to build out a basic CRUD interface for my application. The experience was super easy, and greatly … Continue reading Building a Serverless API with ClaudiaJS →

Sometimes in Software Engineering you run across code that is so elegant that you have to write about it. I was recently working with a project that uses an array of values that needed to be sorted by date. The array was read in from a Json file. In JavaScript to sort an array you … Continue reading How to Implement Sort in JavaScript →

Recently I was working on trying to dynamically strikethrough values in a list in an Angular Project. This is pretty straightforward and works with the standard css text-decoration: line-through , but that's harder to do if you want to apply this style dynamically. Looking around stack-overflow, lots of people have ways to fix this. I … Continue reading How ng-style Helped Me →

Tony Stark using Cypress to test his Iron Man suit (image source) Recently, I worked through implementing Cypress e2e testing on my application the overwatch-challenge. I was really impressed by the experience, and wanted to write about what I did, and why it was so cool. This post is going to focus on a high … Continue reading How Cypress Makes Testing Fun →

Gandalf leading the search for the ultimate CMS (image source) Recently I was considering revamping http://www.rhythmandbinary.com, and potentially branching out to a different platform. There are a lot of options available, and I wanted to pick the right one for what I was doing. In the process of my research, I also was able to … Continue reading In Search of the Ultimate CMS →

Documentation is always a challenge in the world of Software Engineering. Often times documentation is the last thing that gets done, and it’s hard to keep it updated. Some people make the argument that the code is the documentation, but you still need guides and other instructions for people to use your project. One big … Continue reading How I used Python to Collect Project Documentation →