Guido Flohr

Mono repos are very popular nowadays for bundling a collection of related JavaScript libraries in one single repository. Figuring out how to handle dependencies between multiple packages inside that repository was a little tricky for me. This is how I got it working.

While displaying a Bootstrap modal dialog in Angular is fairly simple, doing so inside an NgRx effect is a little tricker. This post walks you through all necessary step to get the job done inside a simple Angular counter application.

The use of a Google API Key can be restricted to a configurable set of host or domain names. But does this protect (ab)use of the key by others? Not really.

I sometimes receive the good advice to make my regular expressions more concise with the /i modifier or using backslash character classes like \d, \s or the like. But I avoid them on purpose. Why?

JavaScript's bind() doesn't exist in Perl. But it wouldn't be Perl if it wasn't possible to implement a perlish equivalent to JavaScript's bind() in a completely transparent and idiomatic fashion with just a few lines of code.

Closures are hard to understand for many beginners. If you encounter a callback API that is missing parameters you have an excellent chance to get your feet wet with closures.