Brian De Sousa

Using Node 11.7 Worker Threads with RxJS Observable

By Brian De Sousa

With the release of Node 11.7, the worker_threads module becomes a standard feature and is no longer hidden behind the –experimental-worker switch. The worker_threads module allows developers to run JavaScript asynchronously in light-weight, isolated threads contained within the main Node process. This article will be focusing on how use worker threads to execute a task asynchronously and stream data from that task back to the rest of your Node application using RxJS Observables.

Case-sensitive import statements in TypeScript

By Brian De Sousa

I ran into a tricky TypeScript build issue with an Angular app that would build successfully on a Windows 10 machine but failed to build on a Linux machine with a “Cannot find module” error. The cause of the problem ended up boiling down to a single case-sensitive character, “X” instead of “x”.

NPM Can Do That?

By Brian De Sousa

I have been using the NPM package manager for a few years and watched it rise, almost fall (to Yarn) and evolve into a fast, full-featured package manager and much more. Along the way there are a few simple tricks that have saved me a bunch of time.

Completing the Angular 2 Quick Start in VS Code

By Brian De Sousa

The Angular 2 quick start walks you through setting up and running a very simple Angular 2 application. If you are trying to complete the quick start in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), there are a few extra steps to complete before you can build and run the application. This article discusses how to run the Angular 2 quick start application in VS Code using the lite-server NPM module. You can see the complete source code referenced in this article on GitHub in the briandesousa/angular2-quickstart-vscode repository.