Using SVR.js to Run Server-Side JavaScript

Photo by Ales Krivec on Unsplash When working with Alpine.js templates, I ran into an issue where only the first child element inside a <template> tag is rendered, leaving subsequent elements mysteriously absent. Understanding the Problem Consider the following code: <template x-if="products.product_id"> <a...

Photo by Trevor Wilson on Unsplash Why Updating Alpine.js State with Direct Reassignment Fails (and How to Fix It) Reactivity is amazing, but when it fails its frustrating. And with that a stupid issue hit me recently because of direct reassignment of a variable that I did. In my defence I was reassigning the property this.formFields...

Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash TL;DR: Project code here: github.com/andyj/svrjs-with-docker Why SVR.JS? SVR.JS is a lightweight and efficient web server designed to serve static files effortlessly. It's great for scenarios where you need a quick and reliable solution to host static content without the overhead of traditional web...

Photo by Alec Weir on Unsplash TL;DR: Find the GitHub project here: github.com/andyj/mariadb-connection-pool Why Use a Connection Pool? Database connection pooling critical for your web applications. Without a pool, every database query spins up a new connection which startes eating up your resources! A connection pool keeps a stash of open...

Photo by Brina Blum on Unsplash From a conversation on the Working Code Podcast Discord channel I came across a change between Lucee 5 to Lucee 6, and how variables are scoped and handled, specifically when/if using var in a .cfm template. This post is just the sample code I used to do some digging on how the scoping...