At times, I've found my opinion of MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Stitch to waver between two extremes. Sometimes I'm struck by the allure of a cloud which fundamentally disregards schemas (wooo no schema party!). Other times, such as when Mongo decides to upgrade to a new version and you find all your production instances broken, I like the ecosystem a

Some tools are simply the right tool for the job. I imagine this must have been the thinking behind the wave of JSON-like NoSQL databases at their peak, and even so today. If we figure we’ll be passing information as JSON to an endpoint, to then have it structured into a schema, only to be promptly broken down again

I promised myself I wouldn’t get involved in any more Gulp tutorials; task runners aren’t exactly the sexiest topic in the world, and chances are if you’ve made it to this blog, you’ve either solidified a CI/CD pipeline for going live with software, or you simply don’t need one. We’ll make an exception

If you're familiar with Django (or Python to any extent), you've probably accepted the concept of what Python guys refer to as "static assets" without much consideration. At some point in Django's conception, a design decision was made: any code, styles, or assets were tucked away into their own respective uninteresting corners of the framework. Thus it was known: anything

Back in the day we touched on some of the wonderful upsides of implementing Gulp into your workflow. If you have been following along and happened to install the latest version of Gulp, you may has noticed something horrible happen: nothing worked. I probably should’ve mentioned that the latest major update to Gulp, Gulp 4, is actually a breaking

Writing HTML sucks, thus we should do everything to minimize the time we spend writing it as much as possible.  Thus, we have Handlebars: a lightweight templating system for Node. Handlebars allows us to avoid repetitive code by compiling the final DOM structure of our site via logic, typically compiled by task runners such as Grunt or Gulp.

If you're

NOTE:  This tutorial was written for Gulp versions <4.0.0. Check out this post for Gulp >4.0.0

Perhaps the whole obligatory-Gulp-tutorial on [Some Coding Blog] thing has become a bit cliché at this point. Haters may do as they will, but I 'll take any opportunity to jam as many SEO keywords I can get

Here at H+S headquarters, we're pretty into the Ghost blogging platform. It's a lot like Wordpress, except without everything that sucks about Wordpress. It's a Node app, isn't bloated with widgets, is more secure, smarter, prettier, and so on. If you're a dev looking to get a quick clean CMS running, Ghost is pretty much a no-brainer.

While the

The information age is over: we have all the information now. All of it. We're in a unique place in human history where we've somehow managed to mine more data than we know what to do with... and a lot of that data is easily accessible via APIs.

We're going to get our feet wet with REST APIs today, thus