In my post about GraphQL and the Apollo server tools, I primarily focused on setting up a simple GraphQL schema and set of resolvers, but did not go much deeper. The main example in that post defined a findBy method which simulated hitting a database, but for the sake of brevity, this detail was largely overlooked.
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Timing Your Queries in Knex.js for Node.js
While developing web applications, I keep a close eye on performance issues, particularly in database queries. In my latest project, I’ve been using Knex.js, a SQL query builder for Node.js.
I developed a method of logging the queries executed by Knex.js as well as the execution times for each query. This method can be applied to nearly any application that uses Knex.js, and it uses a few features of Knex.js that I didn’t notice immediately, so I thought I’d share this small but useful bit of code.
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Debugging ES6 Code in Node.js
I recently decided to use Node.js for my current project, and I also thought it would be a good idea to start off using ES6 (properly known as ECMAScript 2015). ES6 was a major addition to the language, and it was just formalized in June 2015. Since then, there has been a lot of effort to add ES6 compatibility to browsers (and Node.js). Until there is unanimous support for ES6, which will likely be quite some time yet, developers who use ES6 are required to run their code through a transpiler in order to transform it into valid ES5 for browser compatibility.
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Bye-Bye, Sinon – Hello, testdouble
UPDATE: Justin Searls, the author of testdouble.js sent me an email with some notes on this post. I’ve added some his comments below to provide some additional context.
I’ve been working in JavaScript-land for the last little while, writing lots of Node.js code. Since I practice TDD, I’m always trying to keep my eye on the best new ways to test JavaScript code. Read more on Bye-Bye, Sinon – Hello, testdouble…
Using ES6 in Node.js
My team recently upgraded our Node version from 0.10 to 4.0 for a big app we are working on. Lots of improvements came in the upgrade, but by far, my favorite is all of the ES6 features now available natively in Node.
Just to be clear, Node 4.0 does not exhaustively support ES6. It implements a lot of the biggest new features, all incorporated from the upstream V8 engine. Getting all of these features–especially without having to set up up a build process with Babel or another compiler–has been a huge win for our team. We’ve been able to write cleaner, better JavaScript, and we’ve been gradually refactoring our app to use the new ES6 features. Read more on Using ES6 in Node.js…