John Harris
rharris2825
Recent Tech Decisions
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  • Visual Studio Code

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    Simple, lightweight, and powerful IDE for Typescript and Javascript development.

  • Jenkins

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    Runs on a private server.

  • Babel

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    This is used to transpile compiled ES2015 Typescript code. This is done because, at the moment, Babel is better at ES5 transpilation than Typescript is.

  • JavaScript

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    All of the build scripts are written in vanilla Javascript.

  • Webpack

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    This is used to minify and bundle the code into a single library file.

  • TypeScript

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    Excellent design-time type checking and the ability for the Typescript compiler to attach typing information to metadata at compile time allows for relatively simple type checking at run-time as well.

  • Mocha

    → rharris2825 Node-Webpack


    Easy to use testing framework.