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Germany | 24 | CS Student | Software Developer
You wonder where this blog's name comes from? My last name translated in english means 'guardian' :P
Latest articles
How I structure my React projects
A React folder structure that fits my needs. Structuring and organizing React applications.
Database seeding in Node.js
Seed your MySQL database with dummy data using Node.js.
How I structure my Node.js REST APIs
A Node.js folder structure that fits my needs. Structuring and organizing Node.js REST APIs with a component-based architecture.
Zobrist Hashing
Zobrist hashing, named for its inventor Albert Zobrist, is a technique to represent game board positions, like from chess or Go, as hash value. It's mainly used with transposition tables, a special kind of hash table that is indexed by a board positi...
Setting up a MySQL container in Docker
Docker is a term you might already have heard or read about in the tech scene since it’s a quite upcoming trend in the last couple of years. Docker is platform as a service (PaaS) mostly used by software developers to develop, deploy, and run applica...
Increasing your productivity with Telegram and Node.js
Some time ago I searched for an easy way to establish a communication channel between a mobile device and a Node.js webserver. My goal was to exchange messages over this channel and receive information about the weather, public transportation and mor...
Unit Tests for Node.js APIs built with TS, Express.js and TypeORM
Some days ago I wrote an article about how I structure my Node.js REST APIs. However, I didn’t cover any test scenarios in there. So it’s time to catch up on this now. We’re going to write an unit test for a single API component based on the project ...
Path aliases with TypeScript in Node.js
Some days ago I included path aliases in my TypeScript Node.js projects. Since they make the code look much cleaner in my opinion I like to show you how to setup these in a project. The problem In Node.js (or TS/JS in general) you can import single m...
