Tagged “javascript”

De-Microsofting Your Development Environment

2022-07-02 commentary javascript rescript tooling

Anyone who has been following the web ecosystem over the last few years knows it has been rapidly consolidating under Microsoft. That consolidation economically threatens the open web. Diversifying your tooling could protect you as much as diversifying any investment, and it's much more convenient than you might think.

Continuously Deploying to GitLab's NPM Package Registry

2022-06-04 devops gitlab javascript npm rescript

In a previous article, we explored how to continuously deploy to the npmjs.com package registry. This is all well and good, but an advantage of CI/CD is that we can easily deploy wherever we want. This article will explore how to deploy an npm package to both npmjs.com and GitLab's own package registry, including how to change package names when necessary.

Binding to a JavaScript Function that Returns a Variant in ReScript

2021-06-09 javascript indexeddb rescript variant

ReScript provides easy ways to bind to most JavaScript functions in a way that feels both native and safe. Conveniently, it even provides an @unwrap decorator for parametric polymorphism. However, there are a few places where we still have to fill in the gaps. This article documents how to bind to a JavaScript function that can return any one of several different types using ReScript variants.

How to Use Excerpts in Eleventy

2020-08-08 eleventy javascript

Recently, I added first-paragraph post excerpts to this Eleventy blog's homepage post list. I found it wasn't easy. It wasn't all documented all in one place. Further, in order to use Markdown excerpts in HTML, I had to write a simple custom filter. I'd like to document the process here from end to end.