Year: 2021

gh – GitHub Command Line Tool

gh – GitHub Command Line Tool

This is a short intro for the gh -the GitHub Command Line Tool. Prior to the gh introduction, most of the job, working with terminal and trying to automate somehow the interaction with GitHub repositories, required the using of other CLI tools like curl. This was not such a handy approach, especially for DevOps. But now, we can rely on the gh tool that simplifies quite a lot, the automation of operations needed to deal with GitHub repos.

Typescript – How to solve the problem with unresolved path aliases in transpiled .js files
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Typescript – How to solve the problem with unresolved path aliases in transpiled .js files

Here is a somehow detailed description of a well know issue related to the fact that the tsc compiler (transpiler) does not resolve/emit correctly the path aliases to the output JavaScript .js files. As a result, when you try to run the output file via node you get an error.
The solution presented here uses a tiny external specialized package and more specifically as a demo it uses the @ef-carbon/tspm.

Use a bash script to automate a Typescript-Node project scaffolding in your Mac
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Use a bash script to automate a Typescript-Node project scaffolding in your Mac

Even in the case you are a newcomer, sooner or later, you will start boring the routine of repeating, again and again, the same actions.
Here there is a quite simple approach using just a pure bash shell script. No external tools or npm packages. Just a quick, clean and fast solution, especially handy for your very fundamental installations.

Angular Custom Directives – Part 1: Attribute Directives
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Angular Custom Directives – Part 1: Attribute Directives

The concept of the ‘Directive’ comes from the early versions of Angular (e.g., AngularJS 1.X) The concept covers almost all the basic building blocks of Angular, including Components. Angular provides ‘ready-made’ Directives that we can use them directly in our templates. However, here we will focus on Custom Directives, with examples to both, Attribute and Structural Directives. In this post we give a step-by-step example with code, for a Custom Attribute Directive.