I recently bought a new iMac and moved all of my files over using Time Machine. The migration went really well overall and within a few hours I had my development machine up and running. After starting an application I'm building I quickly realized that I couldn't get MongoDB to start. Running the …

I'm excited to announce the release of Observable Store 2.0 on npm! You can get started using it with the standard npm install command: bash npm install @codewithdan/observable-store The Github repository provides information about the specific steps to get started and how Observable Store can be …

I’m excited to announce the release of my next course on Pluralsight titled Kubernetes for Developers: Core Concepts! Since creating the Docker for Web Developers course I've been wanting to create a course that takes developers to the "next level" with containers and the new Kubernetes for …

I'm working on an npm package that requires RxJS as a peerDependency which means that whatever app uses the package must also install RxJS. Since my npm package project needs RxJS to build, I add it as a devDependency which of course adds it into the node\modules folder of the project. To use my …

Image created by Mohamed Hassan I'm currently working on a project that relies on jasmine-ts to run unit tests. While it's been working great, I encountered a bug in a unit test that required a lot more than a simple console.log() statement to figure out. I needed real debugging! Since my unit …

The ngVikings conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark this year and I had a great time speaking at it and talking with the people that attended. One of the more fun aspects of attending any conference is listening to and learning from what others are doing, hearing about problems they're trying …

I had the opportunity to attend and speak at ngVikings this year in Copenhagen, Denmark which was a lot of fun. Copenhagen is a beautiful city and the conference organizers did a great job putting the event together. One of the talks I gave at the conference covered deploying Angular applications …

If you ever get a chance to attend the ng-conf conference in Salt Lake City, Utah I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorite conferences to attend and speak at due to the great content, huge community of developers, and many fun events throughout the week. The conference organizers do a great …

Over the past year I've done several big updates to my Docker for Web Developers course on Pluralsight that I wanted to mention. First, all of the code samples have been updated and Docker Desktop (formerly called Community Edition) is now covered in addition to Docker Toolbox. The biggest update …

I recently had someone ask me a question on Twitter about moving to Single Page Application frameworks and why they'd do that over choosing vanilla JavaScript or jQuery. It's a great question but tough to question on Twitter with the limited amount of characters. So, I thought I'd dust off an old …