With the release of Webpack 2 a few months back, it’s already a good time to start migrating to this new version. The first thing I noticed is the new documentation, it’s now way clearer and better overall than the old docs, it felt like anybody could understand and configure Webpack with minimal ef…
Alejandro Napoles
Programming in development mode gives us a lot of helpful features, like hot reloading. At the same time, it consumes much more memory and space, the application is not optimized. The final product will be downloaded and executed in the browser, which has limited resources. If our app is not optimiz…
Alejandro Napoles
Each change in the code of my current project I was receiving the following React Router error: You cannot change <Router routes>; it will be ignored That meant that I was having to refresh the page manually, rendering the hot reloading almost useless, since the only thing updating was my CSS.…
Alejandro Napoles
Working with React has been an amazing experience so far. It has broadened my view (no pun intended) in certain ways. One of the first things I liked was not even a specific React only concept. I'm talking about components and how you can make standalone components that can be plugged easily into th…
Alejandro Napoles
I was trying to remove the capitalization of some directories in my project, but it didn't turn out initially as I wanted. Although the paths inside the JavaScript files were changed and the directories too, Git didn't care. If someone were to clone the project she would find the directories capital…
Alejandro Napoles
After I configured HTTPS on the server and deployed the Ghost blog, I started receiving mixed content errors on the blog. These errors were caused by Ghost serving subresources with HTTP content, therefore weakening the security of the entire page: As these requests are vulnerable to man-in-the-midd…
Alejandro Napoles
In the first part of this journey of configuring a Centos Server to deploy the blog and other Node applications, we did all the things we needed to do to have the server up and running in a secure way. Among other things, we configured the firewall, SSH and we modified the sshd_config to disable pas…
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