Tag Archives: javascript

Using reactive streams on serverless with cyclejs, xstream and Azure Functions

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Steve

[ Update 2016-10-23 the code is now in the cyclejs community repo] During development of my latest SaaS product, Brian, I’ve settled on a couple of key architectural decisions. For the Frontend I’m using Reactive programming (RP) with streams and … Continue reading →

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Is the web getting less webby and will serverless make it worse?

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Steve

[Title inspired by a quote from Scott Hanselman on Serverless with Azure Functions ‘It’s as close to “cloudy” as The Cloud can get’] There’s some big changes happening in web land that are fuelled by rapid app framework developments and … Continue reading →

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More on portable npm scripts

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Steve

Following on from my earlier post on the topic of writing portable npm scripts, here’s a few more useful tips. [UPDATE 2016/03/31: Bash for Windows was announced at Microsoft Build 2016. This exciting feature will allow running of Linux npm … Continue reading →

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Writing portable npm build scripts

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Steve

tl;dr; Developers need to install and build Javascript NPM modules on Windows as well as *nix. With a little care this is possible without using heavyweights tools like Grunt and Gulp . Modern HTML development usually includes a build and deploy process similar … Continue reading →

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