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Settings and Plugins for a Better Development Experience in WebStorm

Let's explore a few settings and plugins I've found improve my development experience and productivity while working in WebStorm.

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How to Use Contentful CMS and Create a Simple Content Model

Contentful comes with a visual interface for uploading content, and it also includes an admin view that lets you create the content model.

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Securing an API Gateway Using AWS IAM

For user access, AWS Cognito is a good choice for authentication and authorization. But when only machines are involved, AWS IAM may be a better fit.

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How to Choose the Best GraphQL Server for Your Next Project

After choosing GraphQL to facilitate your backend API development, you still need to decide which implementation of a GraphQL server to use.

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Building an Angular Library for npm and for Local Use

For our current project, my software team is building an Angular library that can deploy to npm or be used locally to test components.

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How to Fix a Prisma Library Load Problem with Cypress on macOS

Here's how to fix the "Unable to Load Node-API Library" error that can come up when trying to use Prisma in Cypress tasks on macOS.

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Exporting Neptune Data to a Gremlin Server

Although Amazon does not offer a way to run Neptune locally, Apache Gremlin Server is a close enough approximation for testing and development purposes.

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Setting up Microsoft Graph API in Node

In getting the authentication setup for Microsoft Azure in Node, we can take advantage of the Graph API in the background of any app.

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5 Principles for Your dotfiles Repository

Like many developers, I’ve long kept a git repository containing my "dotfiles." These five principles will help you improve your dotfiles repository.

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How I Run Builds and Tests in VSCode Efficiently

I've developed a simple workflow to run builds, tests, and other operations during development that allows me to easily and efficiently examine results.

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Using Protobuf, Part 3: Building Robust Code

Given a system that produces and consumes serialized protobuf messages, how can we be assured that our code is equipped to handle older or newer messages?

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Using Protobuf, Part 2: Fields and Compatibility

Let's talk about protobuf's strategy for backward and forward compatibility as well as pitfalls specific to this strategy that you should watch out for.

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