So you want to use Cloudflare SSL certificates with AWS API Gateway? First, create an origin certificate in Cloudflare’s and then import it into the AWS Certificate Manager. Cloudflare -> SSL/TLS-> Origin Certificate -> Create Certificate

Placeholder-cli is an open-source command-line tool that replaces images with placeholders. If your project uses images that require a distribution license, you may use this tool to replace them. The tool generates placeholders on the fly with the exact width and height as the image. Did I mention those generated placeholders don’t have a watermark:)? Watch the tool in action:

An example application demonstrating how to add route paths to a map using the MapBox Javascript library. The example covers topics such as: Address geocoding Adding markers Directions API Adding routes Source code can be found on Github and a demo can be viewed here. mbejda/mapbox-map-example Mapbox example demonstrating how to add multiple route paths to a map. It covers topics such as: address geocoding…github.com

Copy to Gist is a Chrome extension that lets you copy selected text from a page to a gist. You can use it to streamline the process of adding gists to medium articles. For example, the following Javascript code was selected, copied to a gist and pasted below. var foo = function(){ console.log("hello world"); }

PlotlyChartExport is a chart rendering module that renders static plot.ly charts on the server. It’s a lightweight module designed for serverless environments. Only 1 Dependency Works in Serverless Environments Size < 10MB Checkout PlotlyChartExport on Github: https://github.com/mbejda/plotlychartexport Find PlotlyChartExport on NPM : https://www.npmjs.com/package/plotlychartexport Learn how to create Plot.ly Charts As a Service on AWS :

FireDeploy is a CLI tool which can also be used as a dependency module to deploy single page applications to Firebase from serverless environments. It is a lightweight alternative to the firebase `firebase-tools` cli. It does not rely on heavy dependencies such as firebase, firebase-tools(190M), firebase-admin and weighs < 10mb. …

RXJS has a broad set of observable operators such as flatMap, mergeMap, concatMap, that can be used to do nifty things. One particular operator that I will cover in this post is called switchMap. A switchMap is not a switch statement in the traditional sense where you define a list…

ECMAScript 6 brought us some wonderful features and helped alleviate some Javascript pains. One particular pain I wrestled with for a long time deals with the way JavaScript initialized it’s objects. Before ECMAScript 6, initializing an object with a variable as a key was a 2 step operation. You would first initialize the object, and then you would give it a variable key while assigning it a value.

For to often I see developers do something like this The code block loops through an array of numbers and adds them to a number outside the loop. The end result will produce a variable that contains the sum of all numbers in the array. However, the solution can be expressed in terms that correspond to the problem being solved. Even though the results are going to be same, future developers who may inherit that code will thank you for having a clear and concise code block.