Articles about javascript

Recently I found a scenario that forced me to find out how to emit and capture global events in Vue.js and Nuxt so here is what I found.

My thoughts about email automation systems, why and how I built a custom one for one of my projects and why you probably shouldn't do it.

Step-by-step guide to setup a Strapi project to connect with MongoDB. I use this setup in all my projects, which connects a local instance running on Docker and Mongo Atlas in production

Some thoughts after migrating my personal website and blog from Laravel to a full static site with Nuxt content

Two downsides of using Vue.js are performance in first page load and SEO. In order to solve or improve those, there are two things I always do: pre-render all pages I can and use vue-meta to include the correspondent meta-tags.

Vuexfire is great to bind a Firestore query to your state and keep it in sync but the moment you try to add the Firestore pagination methods like startAfter to your query, things start to fall apart. I explain you how to create a load more pagination using Vuexfire and a few custom mutations.

One of the most common problems to solve when building a Vue.js project is state management. While Vuex is great, you always end up writting a ton of actions, mutations and getters. If your application backend is Firebase, Vuexfire can save you a lot of time and quite a few lines of code.

A super quick guide explaining how you can improve your Lighthouse score and overall web performance by lazy loading reCaptcha only when users interact with your forms.

Do you need to create a real time event driven application? With Socket.io it's super easy! Follow this step-by-step guide to understand how to build a chat application you can deploy to your server.

A recap of the Vue London 2019 conference which took place on October 4th, including slides, repos and videos.

How to use OAuth2 authentication to use Google API's. I created a CLI program to authenticate in Google and use the Calendar API to list and filter events.

A quick guide explaining how NPM works behind the scenes and how to publish and update your packages in npmjs.org

Javascript promises are very useful when working with asynchronous tasks like reading files and calling APIs. In this article I explain what they are, how to create them, create functions that return them and how to use ES7 async/await syntax.

I created a small project to explain what a Blockchain is and how its blocks are all linked to one another. Coded entirely in Javascript with Node and Vuejs.