Most modern front end tooling offers up all kinds of great features like autosave, hot module reloading, auto refresh. Great tools, I love them. Sometimes these tools can get you into trouble in browserland. Infinite loops, app hanging after a crash, or serious performance hit, whatever. The point is that you need to kill chrome […]
SOLVED: Angular 6 CLI Karma Stuck in Single Run | Karma Stops Running
Angular 6 was released only a few hours ago and I was eager to start working with it. As I was working through some of the many features, I found that the test runner exits after a single test run despite the settings explicitly setting defaults (autoWatch: true, singleRun: false). I have already logged this […]
How to Manually Install Java 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I recently upgraded to the latest LTS version on my dev machine and needed to install Java. I couldn’t remember exactly what I did last time but knew that I needed to download the tarball from Oracle, save the extracted files somewhere, add the runtime (java), SDK compiler (javac) and webstart (javaws) executables to the […]
Remove VirtualBox from Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
I recently had to make some updates to my VirtualBox and Vagrant installations and decided to completely uninstall VirtualBox to reinstall the newest version to start fresh. I am creating this post as a future reference (mostly for the home folder info) but also to share. Step 1: Completely Remove All VirtualBox Packages and Folders […]
Clear all Node Modules Folders Recursively Mac/Linux
If you do any kind of front end development or front end development training, you have probably accumulated a bunch of projects with aging/stale “node_modules” directories. Are you going to take time to open every single old project you have to nuke the node_modules directory? Nobody has time for that. I wanted to migrate a […]