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Full Disclosure: I'm a member of the AVA team

Q: How much faster is AVA than Mocha (tap, tape, ...).

A: It depends.

First things first:

I should start by saying there are lots of reasons to choose AVA, and I don't think speed is (necessarily) the most import one. Other good reasons include:

@michalochman
michalochman / gulpfile.js
Last active May 19, 2021 22:11
gulp.js: babelify + browserify + sourcemaps
/* jshint strict: false */
/* globals require, console */
var gulp = require('gulp');
var exit = require('gulp-exit');
var browserify = require('browserify');
var watchify = require('watchify');
var babelify = require('babelify');
var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');

Why I hate TypeScript

Warning: These views are highly oppinated and might have some slightly incorrect facts. My experience with typescript was about 2 weeks in Node and a week in angular2.

Not Standard

TypeScript is implementing their own take on JavaScript. Some of the things they are writing will likely never make it in an official ES* spec either.

Technologies that have competing spec / community driven development have a history of failing; take: Flash, SilverLight, CoffeeScript, the list goes on. If you have a large code base, picking TypeScript is something your going to be living with for a long time. I can take a bet in 3 years JavaScript will still be around without a doubt.

Its also worth noting that they have built some things like module system and as soon as the spec came out they ditched it and started using that. Have fun updating!

@cvan
cvan / HOWTO.md
Last active May 16, 2025 06:07
How to serve a custom HTTPS domain on GitHub Pages with CloudFlare: *FREE*, secure and performant by default

Instructions

CloudFlare is an awesome reverse cache proxy and CDN that provides DNS, free HTTPS (TLS) support, best-in-class performance settings (gzip, SDCH, HTTP/2, sane Cache-Control and E-Tag headers, etc.), minification, etc.

  1. Make sure you have registered a domain name.
  2. Sign up for CloudFlare and create an account for your domain.
  3. In your domain registrar's admin panel, point the nameservers to CloudFlare's (refer to this awesome list of links for instructions for various registrars).
  4. From the CloudFlare settings for that domain, enable HTTPS/SSL and set up a Page Rule to force HTTPS redirects. (If you want to get fancy, you can also enable automatic minification for text-based assets [HTML/CSS/JS/SVG/etc.], which is a pretty cool feature if you don't want already have a build step for minification.)
  5. If you
@tivnet
tivnet / etc-monit-monitrc.d-redis
Last active May 31, 2022 12:29
Monitoring Redis with Monit : /etc/monit/monitrc.d/redis
check host redis.host with address 127.0.0.1
if failed port 6379 protocol redis then alert
check process redis-server with pidfile "/var/run/redis/redis-server.pid"
start program = "/etc/init.d/redis-server start"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/redis-server stop"
if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 6379 then restart
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
@DenisIzmaylov
DenisIzmaylov / README.md
Last active March 1, 2022 15:10
Step By Step Guide To Setup Docker Registry

Step By Step Guide To Setup CI/CD With Docker Registry

Step-by-Step Guide how to install CI/CD with Docker Registry On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from scratch.

  1. Install Docker using Official Manual or just run:
sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
@noelboss
noelboss / git-deployment.md
Last active June 9, 2025 10:11
Simple automated GIT Deployment using Hooks

Simple automated GIT Deployment using GIT Hooks

Here are the simple steps needed to create a deployment from your local GIT repository to a server based on this in-depth tutorial.

How it works

You are developing in a working-copy on your local machine, lets say on the master branch. Most of the time, people would push code to a remote server like github.com or gitlab.com and pull or export it to a production server. Or you use a service like deepl.io to act upon a Web-Hook that's triggered that service.

@Swiip
Swiip / jest.init.js
Last active June 2, 2020 11:52
"Testing an AngularJS app with Jest" jest code samples
var localStorageMock = /* ... some mock code ... */
Object.defineProperty(window, 'localStorage', {
value: localStorageMock
});
import './app/index.module';
import 'angular-mocks';
import './app/mock/utils';
@bschwartz757
bschwartz757 / async.js
Last active November 15, 2023 03:23
Async/await function to fetch data from multiple URLs in parallel
/* Client side, works in Chrome 55 and Firefox 52 without transpilation */
//https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/11/08/typescript-2-1-rc-better-inference-async-functions-and-more/
async function fetchURLs() {
try {
// Promise.all() lets us coalesce multiple promises into a single super-promise
var data = await Promise.all([
/* Alternatively store each in an array */
// var [x, y, z] = await Promise.all([
// parse results as json; fetch data response has several reader methods available:
//.arrayBuffer()
@Quramy
Quramy / README.md
Last active September 4, 2020 17:24
Performance Angular unit testing

Performance of unit testing Angular app

I'm loving Angular, but running unit tests on Karma gets my nerves. It's too slow for me.

In this post, I explain mechanics under Angular's testing module and how to improve the performance.

What makes my tests slow?

To evaluate Angular unit testing performance I captured the CPU profiling with running Karma.