solace

Use a non-SMTP mail method in Meteor

Requirements:

• lodash (or underscore, you may need to change your _ functions to suit)
• Meteor email package

Meteor.startup(function () {
 var sendEmail = _.bind(Email.send, Email);

almost

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at the Reactive 2015 conference.

NOTE: If you like this, star ⭐ the Gist - the amount of stars decides whether it makes the cut! You could also Retweet if you want :)

Pyramids be gone!

ES7 Async Functions

JavaScript is getting async functions (or already has them if you count Babel.JS) and with them a way to finally slay the evil pyramid. This new language feature lets you write asynchronous code that almost looks synchronous, while maintaining the same semantics as promises. This lets you shed your .then and .catch boilerplate and escape those nested callbacks in favour of clean, explicit, maintainable code.

jawr

// post a description of the object we want using graphql, this
// is then looped over and then each node that is registered checks
// and returns a json copy of the requested fields
package main

import (
    "errors"
    "log"
    "reflect"
    "sevki.org/graphql/parse"

brugnara

#!/bin/sh

#
# Daniele Brugnara 
#
# usage:
# meteor mongo xyz.meteor.com --url | ./do.sh
#

read mongo_auth

WebReflection

// this is now a module:
// https://github.com/WebReflection/backtick-template#es2015-backticks-for-es3-engines--


var template = require('backtick-template');

// just string
const info = 'template';
`some ${info}` === template('some ${info}', {info});

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

---

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

---

jonbretman

(function (root) {

    var type = function (o) {

        // handle null in old IE
        if (o === null) {
            return 'null';
        }

        // handle DOM elements

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

Tho85

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

• One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
• A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

• Unison for file synchronization
• EncFS for folder encryption

bgrins

Javascript log Function

Every time I start a new project, I want to pull in a log function that allows the same functionality as the console.log, including the full functionality of the Console API.

There are a lot of ways to do this, but many are lacking. A common problem with wrapper functions is that the line number that shows up next to the log is the line number of the log function itself, not where log was invoked. There are also times where the arguments get logged in a way that isn't quite the same as the native function.

This is an attempt to once and for all document the function that I pull in to new projects. There are two different options:

• The full version: Inspired by the plugin in HTML5 Boilerplate. Use this if you are writing an application and want to create a window.log function. Additionally,