Optimizing Nest-Commander: User Inputs
Elevate Your Nest-Commander App with Enhanced User Interaction
The Ben Force
I am a 6x AWS certified senior full-stack developer. I write about cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, and automation.
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How to Make a CLI App with NestJS: Step-by-Step
I recently started a role on a company's developer experience team. One of the responsibilities that comes along with this is building larger CLI applications. As I wrote previously, I use the commander library when writing DevOps scripts for my Node...
How to Use TypeScript Decorators with esbuild
Just about every developer that I meet has one, or more, side-projects that they work on. My primary side project (an Alexa skill called Movie Quiz) has helped me learn several new technologies over the years. Working on this skill has taught me ever...
Step-by-Step Guide: Adding Search Capabilities to Your Astro Static Website
Improve your Astro static website by adding a search function for better content discoverability and user experience.
Get All Results from DynamoDB Queries Easily!
A DynamoDB query can only return 1MB of results. So, how can you get all of the results of a query if it's bigger than that? There are two ways: the simple way and the cool way. How DynamoDB Query Pagination Works Before we start getting an insane nu...
My Node.js Toolkit for DevOps Scripting
My favorite packages to use when writing code to support the real code.
Getting Error Responses from Axios
If you search for libraries to make API calls from Node.js, chances are you'll run into the Axios package. It's easy to use, well documented, uses promises, and it works in browsers too. When things go wrong The main complaint from other developers i...
Easy Test Deployments with Terraform
Recently I was forced into using Terraform to define infrastructure. I'm so used to CDK and being able to adjust everything through context settings that I quickly ran into a problem: how do I deploy a copy of my project to test it? Editing Files Dir...
Using Cheerio for Web Scraping
Have you ever manually copied data from a table on a website into an excel spreadsheet so you could analyze it? If you have, then you know how tedious of a process it can be. Fortunately, there's a tool that allows you to easily scrape data from web ...