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#50 Dec 4, 2020 Lessons from Growing Mastering JS to 300k Monthly Page Views – This is our 50th issue, so we're doing a look back on what we've done right building up Mastering JS.
#49 Nov 27, 2020 Announcing Our Partnership with Vue School – It's no secret we're big fans of Vue at Mastering JS. If we're building a frontend that gets too comp
#48 Nov 12, 2020 Why You Shouldn't Use a Static Site Generator for Your Next Blog – This article about migrating from WordPress to Gatsby is a good read. TLDR; migrating from WordPress
#47 Oct 29, 2020 10 Things I Hate About JavaScript – Don't get me wrong, I love JavaScript. I've spent virtually my entire professional career, from my do
#46 Oct 15, 2020 Should You Use an ORM/ODM? – Object-relational mapping (ORM) and object-document mapping (ODM) libraries are a common point of deb
#45 Oct 8, 2020 How to Upgrade MongoDB With Zero Downtime – If you're running MongoDB in production, you should be running a replica set rather than a standalone
#44 Oct 1, 2020 The Case Against Using Environment Variables for Credentials and API Keys – In the early 2010's, the 12 Factor App popularized the idea that you should store configuration (API
#43 Sep 24, 2020 Common Tricks for Talking to REST APIs with Axios – Making API requests is difficult because every REST API does things a little differently. Between dif
#42 Sep 11, 2020 Write Your Own Express.js From Scratch – Last week we shipped our first premium tutorial: Write Your Own Express.js From Scratch, now availabl
#41 Sep 3, 2020 Headless Apps: Making Trello into an Email Scheduler – A while back we wrote about the idea of headless apps: an app that integrates existing UIs and has no
#40 Aug 7, 2020 Do Node.js Developers Need to Know Docker? – Docker is a common job requirement for anything backend related. If you've been looking at Node.js jo
#39 Jul 30, 2020 Why I'm Not Using Webpack for Lambda Functions Anymore – Earlier this year, we wrote about whether you need Webpack if you're writing server-side JavaScript.
#38 Jul 23, 2020 Using the ngrok npm Module to Test Webhooks – I was recently working with the Trello REST API and ran into a bit of a roadblock: the way to create
#37 Jul 16, 2020 Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Use the MongoDB Aggregation Framework – As a young undergraduate studying systems programming, I often wondered why threads were necessary. A
#36 Jul 7, 2020 What is the JAMStack? – The Jamstack (or JAMStack) is a interesting web development paradigm first coined by Netlify's co-fo
#35 Jun 24, 2020 Building and Testing Email Templating Using Vue – Recently, I was working on a custom eCommerce application, and got to the stage where I needed to des
#34 Jun 19, 2020 Building an API Client Library With Axios – Axios' `create()` function is a convenient tool for building your own API client, especially when com
