It's not news anymore that JavaScript is the most cross-platform and cross-tier technology today. Let's take a look at it. JavaScript can be efficiently used on the server part of Web-server and can be used to create modern micro-services. JavaScript is the only technology for now that allows building mobile applications for ALL mobile platforms with 100% the same code of UI and logic for every platform with Apache Cordova technology or with React Native from Facebook. JavaScript allows building…

One of the common tasks related to node.js development is building production ready package. Sometimes you just need to clean and install production only scripts, but sometimes you need something more complicated like preparing files for the electron package. And one of the important part is to copy the correct node modules to target locations. By correct node modules, I mean production dependencies without dev dependencies. Taking into account the complicated algorithm of node modules installation, it may be not…

Node.js is one of the most unexpected technology for me JavaScript on the server side was an unbelievable thing for me 5 years ago. And to be honest, JavaScript was not a very straightforward technology with the main goal to handle HTML/CSS based UI. But now we have several successful Node.js projects in Kvinivel and it seems like everything will be done with JavaScript soon. And JavaScript itself becomes a much more serious and straightforward language. In my last post,…

There are a lot of posts about NodeJS describing innovative solutions for JavaScript on the server side. However, there is another place where JavaScript, V8 and Chrome HTML engines can be applied. That place is your desktop, and Electron is a technology that makes it possible to create desktop applications with JavaScript/HTML. I'm sure most of us already have experience in Electron. I'm sure that everybody who is reading has at least one Electron based application on this desktop. And…