vlucas

import { createCipheriv, createDecipheriv, randomBytes } from "crypto";

const ENCRYPTION_KEY: string = process.env.ENCRYPTION_KEY || ""; // Must be 256 bits (32 characters)
const IV_LENGTH: number = 16; // For AES, this is always 16

/**
 * Will generate valid encryption keys for use
 * Not used in the code below, but generate one and store it in ENV for your own purposes
 */
export function keyGen() {

amcdnl

Why I hate TypeScript

Warning: These views are highly oppinated and might have some slightly incorrect facts. My experience with typescript was about 2 weeks in Node and a week in angular2.

Not Standard

TypeScript is implementing their own take on JavaScript. Some of the things they are writing will likely never make it in an official ES* spec either.

Technologies that have competing spec / community driven development have a history of failing; take: Flash, SilverLight, CoffeeScript, the list goes on. If you have a large code base, picking TypeScript is something your going to be living with for a long time. I can take a bet in 3 years JavaScript will still be around without a doubt.

Its also worth noting that they have built some things like module system and as soon as the spec came out they ditched it and started using that. Have fun updating!

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

eric1234

# https://gist.github.com/eric1234/7324795

# Make sure git is installed
apt-get install -y git

# Remove functions that phpsh needs from config.
sed -i 's/pcntl_signal,//g' /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
sed -i 's/pcntl_fork,//g' /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
sed -i 's/pcntl_wait,//g' /etc/php5/cli/php.ini