How's the Node development experience on the Windows Creator's Update?

The last time I tried Node development on Windows I was turned off by how clunky it was, I hate having to do workarounds for everything. But I also dislike having to dual boot into Linux or run a Linux VM.I've seen a lot of hype about the new Windows Subsystem for Linux, but how well does it actually work? I need Node, Rails, docker, and PhantomJS.

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 06:49PM by sparkbusiness

Help request: Koa routes broken with HTTPS

Hey guys, banging my head against the wall and hoping someone can help. I'm setting up HTTPS on my koa2 API with letsencrypt, using the last part of this DigitalOcean guide. I'm using a nginx reverse proxy. Everything works fine with HTTP but with HTTPS my routes are broken, and I'm having a hard time finding the cause. For example, with plain HTTP, making a request to http://ift.tt/2nrEngs, I'd see a request looking something like{ request: { method: 'GET', url: '/api/some-route', header: { 'origin': 'https://myapi.com', accept: '*/*' } }With HTTPS it looks like { request: { method: 'GET', url: '//some-route', header: {accept: '*/*' } } The request.url is funky and the origin header is missing. I'm wondering if it's an issue with my nginx config, but having a hard time figuring out where to start.

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 07:00PM by harumphfrog

CSS Rebase Gulp plugin

http://ift.tt/2o9Ic7i

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 02:33PM by RobinCK

Deploy a Node.js with Couchbase Web Application as Docker Containers

http://ift.tt/2o5XV9z

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 10:52AM by harlampi

Do any frameworks offer native sdks for Android/ Unity 3d

I miss parse.I'm looking for a backend framework like feathers js with an sdk for calls from Android / Unity ( C#)Does this even exist

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 06:56AM by QaThrower

open source RESTful dungeon generation API server

http://ift.tt/2ohwLMV

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 05:23AM by tonechild

Is loopback any good? I'm not sold on it

I've been looking into loopback recently. Just wondering if anyone here is using it and has any opinions of it.Having a thorough read through the documentation I've come to the conclusion that I personally don't like it. My reasons are:The documentation is average at bestI don't like how it abstracts the database behind a very generic 'storage' interface. Yes I understand it's possible to configure how the loopback fields map to the underlying database field but say I wanted to use Postgres' JSONB field. There isn't a way to query it via the storage api.I hate how it exposes it's its own DSL via the rest interface e.g. http://localhost:3000/api/locations/findOne?filter[where][city]=Scottsdale. This effectively couples your API consumers to loopback's idea of REST.It lacks a built-in migration framework. How do you add a non-nullable field to a table you have in production?!?To me it seems loopback is purposefully opinionated which I guess is fine if you don't have an opinion or if you're a frontend developer without any backend experience.Would love to hear other peoples thoughts or be convinced why loopback isn't that bad.

Submitted April 08, 2017 at 05:30AM by Groady