Ashley Grant's Blog

Resolved JavaScript Promises Can Be Used Multiple Times!

When developers are first learning JavaScript Promises, it's easy to think "Okay, I create a promise, and I 'dot then' it to write the code that will run when the Promise resolves." It is possible to be quite successful developing JavaScript code with this

A Strategy for Deploying a Custom Node Executable to Azure Functions (on Windows)

TL/DR - Use Azure Devops (or your preferred build platform) to include the Node executable it uses to build your app inside the zip package used to deploy your Azure Functions application. Azure Functions (AF) presents a compelling sales pitch. They've built a

I'm Not a Ninja

One of my favorite things I do as a consultant is something I call "Office Hours." For an hour so each week, I work one-on-one with a client's dev team to help them with anything they've been having trouble while building awesome

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Getting My Hands Dirty with Aurelia's Binding Engine, Part Two

Last week, we looked at some hardcore Aurelia code written by Jeremy Danyow that helps create data-driven forms. This week, we'll check out how I used what I learned from Jeremy's code to answer a Stack Overflow question from my fellow Aurelia Core Team

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Getting My Hands Dirty with Aurelia's Binding Engine, Part One

Last year, I was preparing for a talk on extending Aurelia. The talk would look at how Value Converters, Custom Attributes, Custom Elements, and Binding Behaviors can be used to extend Aurelia's binding engine. I was well versed in building the first three, as

From a Node Console App to an Aurelia App

Introduction One of the great things about Aurelia is how it simply gets out of your way and allows you to focus on your own code. Another thing that's great about Aurelia is that it makes it easy to write your very own Todo

A Busy August!

Everyone attending NDC Sydney or Code on the Beach in August should plan on coming to see my talks. I'll be doing an Introductory talk on Aurelia at NDC Sydney on Friday at 16:20. I'm doing a more advanced exploration of Aurelia's extension

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Accessing an Aurelia Custom Element's ViewModel from a Custom Attribute on that Element

Introduction If you're familiar with working with Aurelia custom attributes, you'll know that you can have the Element that the attribute is attached to injected in to your attribute's viewmodel. But did you know that you can actually determine if your custom attribute is

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Suggestions for Structuring a Large Aurelia Application

Introduction There's been a ton of requests in the Aurelia community for guidance on how to structure larger projects. To help provide some clarity, I've created an example folder structure for a members-only e-commerce application. I have posted the folder and file structure to

Properly Filtering an Array in Aurelia

The Goal Today, I wanted to play with the GitHub users page in the Aurelia Skeleton Navigation project. I wanted to accomplish something simple: allow the user to select a subset of the users returned by GitHub and display avatar cards only for this

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How to Sync a GitHub Fork and Rebase a Pull Request

In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a pull request on GitHub. We will then sync the GitHub fork with it's upstream repo. Finally, we will rebase a feature branch in the fork repo to sync it with changes from upstream.

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Rebasing a Branch in Git Explained

Rebasing??? What the heck??? We've all been there. You've just submitted a pull request that adds an absolutely amazing feature to your favorite open source project and the maintainer asks you to rebase your PR to master. CRAP! Now you're going to have to