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Using TypeScript Node.js with native ESM

This reference guide shows how to configure a TypeScript Node.js project to work and compile to to native ESM.

Rationale

CommonJS module system was introduced by the Node.js developers due to the lack of the notion of "modules" in the original JavaScript (ECMAScript) language specification at that time. However, nowadays, ECMAScript has a standard module system called ESM — ECMAScript Modules, which is a part of the accepted standard. This way CommonJS could be considered vendor-specific and obsolete/legacy. Hopefully, TypeScript ecosystem now supports the "new" standard.

So the key benefits are:

GPG signing –

Here is a short guide that will help you setup your environment to create signed commits or signed tags with Git locally. This has been extensively tested on Windows with Git and the Github Desktop application: I use it every day for my professional development projects.

I you face any issue, feel free to leave a comment below.

Connection monitor

Note: if you need a simple connection icon, check out BitBar and its internet checker plugin.

This program notifies you when Internet goes down and when it comes back up.

It pings Google's DNS every 4 seconds; when a ping fails it quickly tries a few more times and switches to downtime mode. When Internet is available again, the cycle restarts.

Tools used

This gist outlines how to resize a view when a keyboard appears using Auto Layout (there are a bunch of code samples out there that manually adjust the view's frame, but that's just so 2013). The method I outline below works universally on both iPhone and iPad, portrait and landscape, and is pretty darn simple.

Setting Up

The first thing to do is to define our containing view controller, the view, and the bottom constraint that we'll use to adjust its size.

Here's HeightAdjustingViewController.h. We don't need to expose any public properties, so it's pretty bare.

Grunt and Cordova 3

The advantages of using Grunt with Cordova:

It simplifies working with the cordova cli.
It provides a mechanism to copy platform customization to the platforms directory without having to commit the generated plugins and platforms directories to version control.
It provides a way to watch resources and automatically run cordova commands.

Stack Overflow: .gitignore for PhoneGap/Cordova 3.0 projects - what should I commit?

	/*
	* common react, redux staff here
	*/
	import {Router, createRoutes} from 'react-router';
	import createBrowserHistory from 'history/lib/createBrowserHistory';
	import rawRoutes from './routes';
	import store from './store';

	function mixStoreToRoutes(routes) {
	return routes && routes.map(route => ({

	var wordIsFlamingo = function (word) {
	var isFlamingo = false;

	switch (word) {
	case "flamingo":
	isFlamingo = true;
	break;
	default:
	isFlamingo = false;
	break;

	/**
	* VH and VW units can cause issues on iOS devices: http://caniuse.com/#feat=viewport-units
	*
	* To overcome this, create media queries that target the width, height, and orientation of iOS devices.
	* It isn't optimal, but there is really no other way to solve the problem. In this example, I am fixing
	* the height of element `.foo` —which is a full width and height cover image.
	*
	* iOS Resolution Quick Reference: http://www.iosres.com/
	*/

	# The $provide service is used to override an injected dependency

	# Bad - results in Error: [ng:areq] Argument 'fn' is not a function, got Object
	module 'someModule', ($provide) ->
	$provide.value "SomeService", SomeMock

	# Good
	module 'someModule', ($provide) ->
	$provide.value "SomeService", SomeMock
	null

	var BatchStream = require('batch-stream2')
	var gulp = require('gulp')
	var coffee = require('gulp-coffee')
	var uglify = require('gulp-uglify')
	var cssmin = require('gulp-minify-css')
	var bower = require('gulp-bower-files')
	var stylus = require('gulp-stylus')
	var livereload = require('gulp-livereload')
	var include = require('gulp-include')
	var concat = require('gulp-concat')