… Read the restThis was a post I wrote in the middle of 2013 but never published. I wanted to share this since it’s a common story across all technologies and developers of all skill levels. Sometimes things really just don’t work. As a post-script, I did come back to this project and had a lot of success.
Angular with typescript architecture
Bear with me, this is going to be a long post.
For the past several months I’ve been working on a production single page application written with AngularJS and TypeScript, and I wanted to share how myself and my team have architected the application.… Read the rest
Separation of concerns in node.js
I’ve been playing with typescript and node.js and I wanted to talk a little about how I’ve broken up my app source. It’s always good to modularize an application into smaller bits, and while node lets you do a lot, quickly, with just a little bit of code, as your application grows you really can’t put all your logic in one big app.ts.… Read the rest
Mongoose with TypeScript
Mongoose is a library for node.js that wraps the mongoDB driver. Since I’ve been playing with typescript, I wanted to show a short demo of strongly typing mongoose with unit tests run in nodeunit all using typescript.
Definitions
First, I have a collection of definition files that represent mongoose types, nodeunit types, and my own document types (in schemaDef.d.ts).… Read the rest