Vinícius Krolow krolow

The experience of using Node.JS with TypeScript, ts-node, and ESM is horrible.

There are countless guides of how to integrate them, but none of them seem to work.

Here's what worked for me.

Just add the following files and run npm run dev. You'll be good to go!

`package.json`

Enable PipeWire on Ubuntu 22.04

This guide is only for original Ubuntu out-of-the-box packages. If you have added a custom PPA like pipewire-debian, you might get into conflicts.

Ubuntu 22.04 has PipeWire partially installed and enabled as it's used by browsers (WebRTC) for recoding the screeen under Wayland. We can enable remaining parts and use PipeWire for audio and Bluetooth instead of PulseAudio.

Starting from WirePlumber version 0.4.8 automatic Bluetooth profile switching (e.g. switching from A2DP to HSP/HFP when an application needs microphone access) is supported. Jammy (22.04) repos provide exactly version 0.4.8. So, we're good.

Based on Debian Wiki, but simplified for Ubuntu 22.04.

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation

Running nightmare on Amazon Linux

You may have thought of running nightmare on AWS Lambda. But before we can run it on Lambda, we need first to make it run on Amazon Linux.

Provision instance which replicates Lambda environment

According to AWS Documentation on Lambda Execution Environment and available Libraries we would need this AMI image with this alias amzn-ami-hvm-2016.03.3.x86_64-gp2. Keep in mind that AMI-image-id for this instance would be different in different regions (eg):

In eu-west-1 - ami-f9dd458a
In us-east-1 - ami-6869aa05

Minimum Viable Async with Node 6

With the release of Node 6.0.0, the surface of code that needs transpilation to use ES6 features has been reduced very dramatically.

This is what my current workflow looks like to set up a minimalistic and fast microservice using micro and async + await.

The promise

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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	// On request, return the cached version, if any
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