Working with NodeJS modules I was doing the following repetitive boring tasks:
- Create the
README.md,LICENSE,.gitignorefiles. - Bump
package.jsonversions. - Add documentation.
Introducing the Blah Command Line Tool
Wednesday, November 12 2014
Statique@1.0.0 is released
Monday, October 20 2014
Statique is a Node.JS static server module that has built-in routing and caching stuff. The new version comes with a lot of fixes and features.
Changelog
The following things were made in the new version:
- Improved
readFilemethod (using file streams)
Creating a Twitter Bootstrap theme with Compass
Tuesday, October 14 2014
Supposing you already have Compass installed on your machine, you can easily create your own Twitter Bootstrap theme. I'm running Compass 1.0.1 (Polaris) on Ubuntu 14.04.
There is a GitHub repository that contains a guide for how to create a Twitter Bootstrap theme with Compass. Based on that, I will write here how to create and edit such a theme.
Set correct rights for gems and install bootstrap-sass
After running the command below, you will not need root access when installing gems.
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/lib/gems/
regex-parser@1.0.0 is released
Sunday, September 28 2014
Sometimes I need to parse strings as regular expressions. For example, having a string like "/hello world/gi", it should be converted into a real regular expression: /hello world/gi.
For doing this, I built a Node.JS module, named regex-parser, that parses such strings. I'm happy to announce the first stable release.
You can download it via git or npm:
# From GitHub, using git
$ git clone git@github.com:IonicaBizau/node-regex-parser.git node-regex-parser
Switzerland, GitHub and Octocats
Tuesday, September 2 2014
Two weeks ago I was in Switzerland, together with my colleagues from jillix. It was the first time I'd traveled by plane. We had a great time together!
I also had the opportunity to meet Ivan Žužak (@izuzak), who works in technical support at Github. He helped me with using the
Introducing MiniLightbox
Wednesday, August 27 2014
I've just released an image lightbox library that has a very simple API. Its name is MiniLightbox. It's minimalist and doesn't depend on any library (e.g. jQuery). It only uses JavaScript, but combined with the power of CSS3 transitions, it's everything I expect from a minimalist lightbox.
"Le Table" - Create ASCII tables with Node.JS
Saturday, July 26 2014
Last week I published an article about cli-box - a library that creates ASCII rectangles. A pull request was made (thanks @wesolyromek), adding the feature to fill such rectangles with text. A great improvement!
Putting together the overlap module and cli-box, I created le-table - a library for creating ASCII tables in Node.JS.
Let's take a look at the example:
// Dependencies
Generate ASCII boxes with NodeJS
Monday, July 21 2014
Creating ASCII rectangles just became easier. I created cli-box - a NodeJS module that can be used to generate ASCII boxes.
You can install it via NPM by running npm install cli-box or via git. For documentation, check out the GitHub repository and the NPM project page.
The library exports a function that can be used as constructor. You just need to pass it a string (e.g.: "20x10") or an object. The function returns an object containing a settings field (which can be modified after the Box call) and a toString() method that will convert the box into a string.
Tweak your terminal with flat colors
Wednesday, July 16 2014
It's time to bring the flat colors into your terminal! I've released a theme for Gnome Terminal that is published on GitHub.
To install it, simply do: