Recent Posts from Jeff Wear

    Posts by Jeff Wear


    Troubleshooting `npm link` As of this writing, Mixmax runs 15 Node microservices. We keep this manageable by sharing a ton of code between services, in the form of npm packages …
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    How to correctly specify default options in ES6 When writing modern JavaScript, it's common to collect multiple optional parameters into a trailing "options" object. This allows clients to pass a …
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    Handling 3rd-party JavaScript with Rollup This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 2nd was about Mixmax’s new Sequence Picker SDK.
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    How to Write an Engineering Blog Post This blog post is the final post of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 11th was about a lightweight alternative to …
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    Integration Testing for Humans This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 10th was about making a holiday guestbook using the Mixmax …
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    What is CORS? This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 3rd was about Node 6 features.
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    Upgrading to Node 6 on Elastic Beanstalk This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 1st was about Mixmax’s open-source culture.
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    Native Support for Websockets on AWS Mixmax started out as a monolithic Meteor application hosted on Modulus.io. As our traffic and user base grew we ran into problems with both Meteor …
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    Requiring Node Built-ins with Webpack Webpack is infamous for being complicated, but it actually does quite a lot for you out of the box. Bundling a Node/CommonJS module for the browser …
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    Turn-key Electron apps with Meteor Last month, we released our first desktop application to rave reviews. After several improvements and the release of the Windows version, we’re …
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    Building Your First Enhancement using the SDK This post is part 4 in an engineering blog series about building on top of the Mixmax SDK. See part 1, part 2, and part 3.
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    Node fibers: Patterns and anti-patterns using synchronize.js For all the discussion of “callback hell” in the JavaScript community—it even has its own website—there’s no standard solution to the problem, and …
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