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Tagged: NodeJS

29 December 2025

I made a prettify for Bruno files

As all the engineers in my team gradually went offline for the last time in 2025, I found myself spending my final day helping the QA guy in our team with some end-of-year housekeeping. On his laptop were hundreds of .bru files containing over 27,000 lines of automated tests. Months of work and none of […]… Read more »
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13 February 2017

Jade Templating Engine Renamed to Pug

Playing with the Express framework on a Node.js project I was encouraged by Express's documentation to bootstrap my new project with the Jade templating engine. I'd never used Jade before but I liked what came out the box! Diving deeper and hungry for official documentation I searched the term "jade templating" on duckduckgo.com and scanned my […]… Read more »
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6 May 2016

Run build tasks inside your VM or on the host?

I build websites working on a Windows (or Mac for some clients) computer with a Linux virtual machine (spun up by Vagrant) running inside that contains the actual website files. Most web developers do something like this. But until last week I hadn't thought of running my NodeJS dev build tasks such as Grunt and Gulp […]… Read more »
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1 March 2016

The most hipster Github repo possible

I've challenged myself to make the most hipster repo possible! Tell me if you think my hipster tech stack can be improved?… Read more »
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